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How to use parakeet in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Parakeet means any of various species of small parrot primarily of tropical regions. Example: “It said, 'Parfaitement, madame!' 'Oh, the pretty parrakeet,' said the lady.”

Examples of parakeet by meaning

nounAny of various species of small parrot primarily of tropical regions.

  • It said, 'Parfaitement, madame!' 'Oh, the pretty parrakeet,' said the lady.1904, E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet
  • According to one legend, the parakeets escaped from the set of The African Queen, John Huston's 1951 film made at Shepperton studios.2009 October 12, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian

More sentences with parakeet

  • Rabbits can be housed with other species; pet birds such as parakeets cohabitate well with rabbits.2020, Katherine Quesenberry, Christoph Mans, Connie Orcutt, Ferrets, Rabbits and Rodents. From the entry cohabitate
  • She’s a parrot, children, a special kind – an Alexandrine parakeet.2013, Rohini Singh, Free Fall: The Journey Home, Hay House, →ISBN. From the entry Alexandrine parakeet
  • The show includes computer interactives, animation, models and live parakeets (for an exercise in species identification).2009 June 26, Laurel Graeber, “Spare Times: For Children”, in New York Times. From the entry interactive
  • But a parakeet living in captivity is by necessity deprived of natural life.2000, Wolter, Annette, The Parakeet Handbook, →OCLC. From the entry surrogate activity
  • Parakeet Isle or Yingwuchou: in the middle of the river to the south-west of Hanyang.1966, Mao Tse-tung, Poems of Mao Tse-tung, Eastern Horizon Press, →OCLC, page 63. From the entry ching
  • In some species, like the parakeet, the cere is prominent; in others, the cere is covered by feathers.[2021, Nikki Moustaki, Parrots For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 182. From the entry cere
  • The trees are home to austral parakeets, which travel through the forest in small, noisy flocks looking for food.2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 56. From the entry austral parakeet
  • It became famous in the Han dynasty when a great feast was held there and parakeets brought in.1966, Mao Tse-tung, Poems of Mao Tse-tung, Eastern Horizon Press, →OCLC, page 63. From the entry ching
  • Among other birds, the green parakeets were found in abundance, also the red-tailed tropic-bird, which nests in the pumice tufts.1932, Chamber's Journal, volume 1, page 198. From the entry red-tailed tropicbird
  • Alexandrine parakeets are among those parrot species that also come in a mutant blue color variety due to the suppression of yellow pigmentation.2004, The Encyclopedia of Animals: A Complete Visual Guide, San Francisco, Calif.: Fog City Press, →ISBN, page 298. From the entry Alexandrine parakeet
  • From the mallee and kurrajong trees came a rowdy chatter of parakeets, while queer soughing of air-currents came from the valley top.1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 187. From the entry soughing
  • The bright-green ring-necked parakeet, originally hailing from India and Africa, has established itself in European cities thanks to the caged-bird trade for much of the 20th century.2018, Menno Schilthuizen, “Darwin comes to town”, in The Guardian. From the entry ring-necked parakeet
  • When a Del Mar woman goes out, she entrusts her parakeet to only one person, a teen-age girl she hires to stay home with the bird.1959 July 31, “All Because of a Bird”, in The Circleville Herald, volume 7, number 179, page 8. From the entry birdsitter

Meaning of parakeet

  1. noun Any of various species of small parrot primarily of tropical regions.

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Questions about parakeet in a sentence

How do you use parakeet in a sentence?
Parakeet is used as a noun. For example: “It said, 'Parfaitement, madame!' 'Oh, the pretty parrakeet,' said the lady.”
What is a short sentence with parakeet?
“It said, 'Parfaitement, madame!' 'Oh, the pretty parrakeet,' said the lady.”
What does parakeet mean?
Parakeet means any of various species of small parrot primarily of tropical regions.

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