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• Cupwings, also known as pygmy wren‐babblers, are very small songbirds found in Southeast Asia.2016, Handbook of Bird Biology, volume cupwings, page 55. From the entry cupwing
• Blue wrens and spoggies had been nibbling on the food they had left outside.2011, K. J. Cherry, A Piece of My Heart, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry spoggy
• The Carolina wrens love it too, and they were teakettling away around me.2006, Tim Traver, Sippewissett, Or, Life on a Salt Marsh, page 46. From the entry teakettle
• 'If you think spadgers is easy,' the father said, 'go get yourself a jenny wren.1977, Roald Dahl, The Swan. From the entry spadger
• Jenny wrens is 'alf the size of spadgers and they never sit still for one second.1977, Roald Dahl, The Swan. From the entry spadger
• Perhaps you'll witness a California gnatcatcher dining on gnats (of course!) or a cactus wren singing on a prickly pear pad.2026, Lynette Brasfield, Mountains to Sea Trail (In the Irvine Standard), page 10. From the entry gnatcatcher
• Wren picked up Fenwick in his taxilike white Volga sedan.2003, Amy Schapiro, Millicent Fenwick: Her Way, page 168. From the entry taxilike
• Among the New Zealand birds that disappeared in the nineteenth century were the piopio, native quail and Stephens Island wren.2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 184. From the entry Stephens Island wren
• (a wren) crept or crawled, just like a true tree-creeper.1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 240. From the entry nonpareil
• Suboscines (Tyranni) are mostly found in the Neotropics, whereas the small New Zealand wrens (Acanthisitti) are limited to, you guessed it, New Zealand.2016 October 19, Hanneke Meijer, “Why you can thank geology for your morning songbird chorus”, in The Guardian. From the entry New Zealand wren
• Wren, who had hoped to make his name with his discovery, immediately put De Corpore aside, hoping that in silence his failure would disappear.2011, Leo Hollis, The Phoenix. From the entry trump
• 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
• There would have been no one to superintend him, except a squirrel perhaps or a jenny wren, at which he might have winked.1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 75. From the entry jenny wren
• A loud series of descending whistles from the dark shadows was an ivory-billed woodhewer; and an explosive song in the undergrowth, a gray-breasted wood wren.1955, Roger Tory Peterson, James Fisher, Wild America, →ISBN. From the entry woodhewer
• 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
• Familiar summer-morning bird song rises from the trees, reeds and bushes – song thrush, wren, reed bunting and the rhythmic, steady, repeated “chit-chit-chit” of a reed warbler.2016 July 12, Rob Yarham, The Guardian. From the entry reed warbler
• New Zealand wrens (Acanthisittidae) are the most basal passerines, suboscines are mostly South American, and most taxa originally included in the oscine group Corvida are Australasian.2012, Darren Naish, “20: Birds”, in M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz, James Orville Farlow, editors, The Complete Dinosaur, page 418. From the entry suboscine
• 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
• "Feeding the Wren" is a custom based on the legend of Saint Stephen, who was hiding in a bush and betrayed to his enemies by a wren.1991, Stephen M. Crotts, Saint Nicholas Speaks, Lima, Oh.: C.S.S. Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry St. Stephen's Day
• There was a tiny wren singing among the Balm-o'-Gilead trees on the opposite shore, with a voice that rose silverly above the noise of the rapids.1907, Henry Van Dyke, Days Off. From the entry silverly

Meaning of wren

1. noun Troglodytes troglodytes (Eurasian wren, type species and sole Old World species of the family Troglodytidae).
2. noun Any member of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae; a true wren.
3. noun Any small bird of similar appearance to a true wren, such as a fairywren or scrubwren.

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How do you use wren in a sentence?

Wren is used as a noun. For example: “Cupwings, also known as pygmy wren‐babblers, are very small songbirds found in Southeast Asia.”

What is a short sentence with wren?

“(a wren) crept or crawled, just like a true tree-creeper.”

What does wren mean?

Wren means troglodytes troglodytes (Eurasian wren, type species and sole Old World species of the family Troglodytidae).