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• The sparrow I saw was rufous above and off-white below.From the entry above
• The animal shelter has a flightless sparrow named Shiny, who seems to make up for his disability by being an avid runner.From the entry flightless
• History is littered with our indifference—dodo birds, great auks, 24-rayed sunstars, dusky seaside sparrows, Bernard’s wolves.2015, M. R. O’Connor, “Introduction”, in Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things, New…. From the entry Bernard's wolf
• “Hallo,” Rossamünd said softly, “has the Sparrowling sent you?” The sparrow chirruped loudly.2010, D.M. Cornish, The Foundling's Tale, Part Two. From the entry sparrowling
• A good example is the eyestripe coloration pattern, which appears in sparrows, antelopes, and chipmunks.2009, James Gurney, “Dinosaurs”, in Imaginative Realism: How to Paint what Doesn’t Exist, Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Publishing…. From the entry eyestripe
• The humble sparrow counts just as much as a Wedge-tailed Eagle or a Paradise Parrot.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 41. From the entry tick
• “I was sick of working from sparrow fart as station cook and general dogs-body.”1993, Patti Walkuski, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, page 111. From the entry sparrow-fart
• But he realized that he might as well scold at the sparrows.1922, Willa Cather, chapter 17, in One of Ours. From the entry parade
• A plain gold brooch representing a merry-thought—the merry-thought of a sparrow, I should say, sir.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry merry-thought
• Therefore, do not fear, but trust in your Father's unfailing care, for you are more precious than a charm of sparrows.2015, Wayne L. Ney, The Story of the Messiah: A Historical Account of the Life of Jesus Christ, WestBow Press, page 168. From the entry charm
• The English sparrow, another abundant city species, also loves streetlights and lampposts, especially those with crosspipes open at the ends.2007 June 24, Michael Pollak, “Graffiti Secrets”, in New York Times. From the entry crosspipe
• I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too.1994, “Parklife”, in Parklife, performed by Blur with Phil Daniels. From the entry parklife
• And the sparrows are even more lovable—just as, believe it or not, they are even more costlily destructive—than squirrels.1975, Tribune, page 12, column 1. From the entry costlily
• Even "Mah-Jongg," for example, is called "sparrow dominoes"—and very rightly, since that is what the Chinese word means to the Chinese.1935, National Council of Teachers of English, Secondary Section, English Journal. From the entry sparrow dominoes
• If your grice are much like ours, one grouse would feed two people who would otherwise be satisfied by a roast song sparrow apiece.2015 August 11, Mike Spencer, “Cor! Stuff a grouse”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet), archived from the original on 21 Jul 2026. From the entry grice
• The pelican represents his solitary birth and upbringing, the night owl his agony before and during the crucifixion, and the sparrow his resurrection.2004, Priscilla Heath Barnum, “Explanatory Notes [Commandment IV]”, in Dives and Pauper, volume II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Published for the…. From the entry night owl
• Munias are smaller than sparrows; they have pointed short tails, and live in flocks, building large communal nests shared by several breeding pairs.2000, Tara Gandhi, Birds and Plant Regeneration, page 76. From the entry munia
• Three girls moved across the billiard-table lawn of a great manor house, circling and swarming about a common center of gravity like gamboling sparrows.1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age […] , New York: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 259. From the entry gambol
• Birdwatchers would enjoy a host of sparrows, a herd of swans, a descent of woodpeckers, a herd of wrens, and mutation of thrushes.1984, Virginia Wildlife, volume 45, Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries. From the entry woodpecker
• A compound of galanga, cubebs, sparrow wort, cardamoms, nutmeg, gillyflowers, Indian thistle, laurel seeds, cloves, Persian pepper is made into a drink.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 102. From the entry broth
• The single species of ibon, the Cinnamon Ibon, is a small passerid sparrow in the monotypic genus Hypocryptadius found only on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.2022, Susan Myers, The Bird Name Book: A History of English Bird Names, page 172. From the entry ibon
• Old Buggy and Winter Birds shows a buggy parked in front of a drive shed, while cardinals, juncos, and song sparrows feed on grain strewn over the ground.2014, Robert Bateman, Bateman: New Works, →ISBN, page 34. From the entry drive shed
• Chop packaged suet blocks into several pieces and serve in an open tray feeder for tanagers, wrens, juncos, native sparrows, and other nonacrobatic birds to enjoy.2009, Sally Roth, Backyard Bird Secrets for Every Season. From the entry nonacrobatic
• Where before flocks of house sparrows were just that, now they are unwelcome visitors, scarfing up the expensive songbird feed intended for cardinals and thrushes and other less-ordinary birds.2009 January 23, Perdita Buchan, “Feathered Friends, Heavy Lifting Required”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry scarf up
• Other species not protected include "exotic and feral species such as mute swans, graylag geese, muscovy ducks, European starlings, house (English) sparrows, and rock doves (pigeons)."2001 August 31, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry Muscovy duck
• So you tell your friends about it, including the people who have no interest in birding and wouldn't know a Le Conte's sparrow from a stegosaurus.1988 April 8, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry stegosaurus
• Sparrows merrily chirped in the trees that shaded a playgroundful of tots and mothers and she crossed to the hospital not to have her baby but lose it.1980, Eliot Wagner, My America!, New York, N.Y.: Kenan Press, →ISBN, page 392. From the entry playgroundful
• 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 sparrow

1. noun The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
2. noun A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds.
3. noun A member of the family Passerellidae (or Emberizidae, under classification systems that subsume the New World sparrows under Emberizidae), comprising small New World songbirds.

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How do you use sparrow in a sentence?

Sparrow is used as a noun. For example: “The sparrow I saw was rufous above and off-white below.”

What is a short sentence with sparrow?

“Professional cockney sparrow Martine has acted since childhood.”

What does sparrow mean?

Sparrow means the house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.