How to use robin in a sentence
35 example sentences · noun
Robin means a European robin, Erithacus rubecula. Example: “Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.”
Examples of robin by meaning
nounA European robin, Erithacus rubecula.
- As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
More sentences with robin
- Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.From the entry beard
- A robin is a prototype of a bird; a penguin is not.From the entry prototype
- Daffodils and robins are heralds of Spring.From the entry herald
- The robin has a red breast.From the entry breast
- Robin Williams’ ghost has apparently stuck around and is haunting the California home the actor died in.2014 August 29, Minyvonne Burke, “Robin Williams Death: Actor’s Ghost Haunting Home He Died In, Playing Practical Jokes?”, in HNGN…. From the entry -'
- Some men like red heads and red bones, they like robins with red breast.2013, Legrand Latney, GirlFriend! Who You Tellin, page 211. From the entry Al Bundy
- Robins, of Torquay, had denied a single charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The…. From the entry accidentally
- Now raspberries grow above me, On a rocking twig of a sloebush a robin chirps.1995, Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry sloebush
- The value of interlaboratory tests or round robins has been significant in the FFTF programs.1975 March, Glenn R. Waterbury [et al.], “Nuclear Materials (Fuels)”, in Richard W. Seward, editor, Standard Reference Materials and…. From the entry round robin
- Robins, in particular, thanks to their confidingness, we destroyed in great numbers.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry confidingness
- Robin took to wandering again, to intermittent travel from which she came back hours, days later, disinterested.1936, Djuna Barnes, “La Somnambule”, in Nightwood (New Classics), New York, N.Y.: New Directions Books, published [1946], →OCLC, page 61. From the entry disinterested
- Robin attends meetings.” Whereupon another vote was taken on the suffragist question and the women lost again.1911 July 23, “Cresskill Studies of the Jersey Hen; Mr. [Louis H.] Robinson Opines That She Has Something of the Nature of Women After…. From the entry suffragent
- Robin Williams and Billy Crystal standing in an elevator, and Robin Williams was just farting his life away.2022 August 17, Brittany Sims, “The View’s Whoopi Goldberg was 'scared' for granddaughter to join reality show- but gave her 'best' advice…. From the entry Dutch oven
- Robin gripped his shield and his greathelm, and he waited with the other squires on the display ground.2015, Tim Hall, Shadow of the Wolf, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN. From the entry greathelm
- If the robin is the prototype of bird, do particular examples of robin constitute that prototype for different people?2014, Cecil H. Brown, “A Survey of Category Types in Natural Language”, in S[avas] L. Tsohatzidis, editor, Meanings and Prototypes…. From the entry prototype
- Robin van Persie looked to have secured the points for the Gunners with a fine goal from Theo Walcott's through ball.2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2023. From the entry salvage
- Robins has received additional training in various alternative healing therapies.2004, Stephen Co, Eric B. Robins, Your Hands Can Heal You. From the entry timeline therapy
- Robin Erbacher, 33, a postdoc at Fermilab.2001 July 24, James Glanz, “To Be Young and in Search of the Higgs Boson”, in The New York Times. From the entry postdoc
- Robin finally was able to announce: "Good news!1993, Maurice Apprey, Intersubjectivity, Projective Identification, and Otherness, page 153. From the entry the rabbit died
- Robin (Laura Luz) is a frazzle of choreographed energy as her explanations are obviously leading to more trouble.1980 December 20, Stewart Landers, “Triangle Produces Good Gay Theater”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 22, page 14. From the entry frazzle
- We had another February snow — a robin snow which came in the night and was gone before noon.1949, Joseph Nelson, Backwoods Teacher. From the entry robin snow
- Roberts wore a robins’ egg blue chiffon frock.1942 March 4, Carolyn Bell, “Colorful Throng Attends ‘Blackout’ Symphony Concert”, in The Washington Post, number 24,002, page 14. From the entry robin's-egg blue
- Fairley, a bird lover as well as an observeress of note, reports that she has seen the first robin.1918 February 9, “Here He Is”, in Wilmington Daily News, volume III, number 119, Wilmington, Oh., page three, column 3. From the entry observeress
- Robin and Marian—Autumn romance with Audrey Hepburn as older Maid Marian who, now in a convent, meets up with older Robin, Sean Connery.2006, Susan Swartz, “Movies that know how to treat a tomato”, in The Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living After 50, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry autumn romance
- The winter has been long and somewhat severe, and the robins, therefore, have been well in evidence, also Jacky Winters, double-bars, and blue wrens.1933 October 21, “The Courier Mail”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 21. From the entry blue wren
- I believe the Urchin showed more enthusiasm over the stone and the robin than over any of the amazements that succeeded them.1918, Christopher Morley, “The Urchin at the Zoo,”, in Mince Pie. From the entry amazement
- John Stapp which kept him latibulizing till the ground-hog heralded close of winter, and bluebirds and robins have begun rehearsing their spring symphonies.1915 February 19, “Kidd's Store”, in The Interior Journal, Stanford, Kentucky, page 1, column 2. From the entry latibulize
- “The male robin is a suffragent.1911 July 23, “Cresskill Studies of the Jersey Hen; Mr. [Louis H.] Robinson Opines That She Has Something of the Nature of Women After…. From the entry suffragent
- When they told her about the robin and the first flight of the young ones she laughed a motherly little mellow laugh in her throat.1910 November – 1911 August, Frances Hodgson Burnett, “‘It’s Mother!’”, in The Secret Garden, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes…. From the entry mellow
- Robin van Persie scored twice as ruthless Arsenal put struggling West Ham to the sword in a match tipped to be Avram Grant's last as Hammers boss.2011 January 15, Kevin Darling, “West Ham 0 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC. From the entry put to the sword
- First thing we knew there was a robin with a juicey worm in its mouth going into the rolled fence and it had a nest there.1956 May 19, Millicent, “Chatterbox”, in The Lindsay Daily Post, 61st year, number 107, Lindsay, Ont., page three, column 2. From the entry juicey
- "It's a secret garden sure enough," he said, "but seems like some one besides th' robin must have been in it since it was shut up ten year' ago."1911, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden. From the entry Dickon
- If you load a saxophone sound, for example, the library gives you the entire range of the instrument, with round robins, and a depth of velocity-triggered samples for each note.2019 August 15, L. J. Howard, Tommy Gordon, “Computing Resources (CPU) Tips”, in Music Production Tips, Tricks, and Secrets, [United…. From the entry round robin
- The San's feeders were mobbed with sparrows and jays and the starlings that had just begun to colonize the area, but there was no sign of robin, bobolink or oriole.1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 297. From the entry bobolink
Meaning of robin
- noun A European robin, Erithacus rubecula.
- noun An American robin, Turdus migratorius.
- noun A trimming in front of a dress.
Questions about robin in a sentence
- How do you use robin in a sentence?
- Robin is used as a noun. For example: “Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.”
- What is a short sentence with robin?
- “The robin has a red breast.”
- What does robin mean?
- Robin means a European robin, Erithacus rubecula.
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