CANARY in a Sentence

Learn CANARY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

10 example sentences for CANARY, such as:

1. The canary is a small yellow songbird.
2. When Molly's canary began to molt, he shed feathers all over the house.
3. She was looking at the canary yellow festoons left over from the Coronation.
4. Georgiana would chatter nonsense to her canary bird by the hour, and take no notice of me.
5. He had, with Carol's help, made his shanty over into a cottage with white curtains and a canary and a chintz chair.

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canary
 n.  pale yellowish color; wine made in the Canary Islands; canary bird; quick and lively dance
Classic Sentence:
1  Georgiana would chatter nonsense to her canary bird by the hour, and take no notice of me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  He had, with Carol's help, made his shanty over into a cottage with white curtains and a canary and a chintz chair.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  She was looking at the canary yellow festoons left over from the Coronation.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
4  At the theatre," went on Nozdrev, "there was an actress who sang like a canary.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
5  One could go to the cigar factory and chat with the old German who raised canaries for sale, and look at his stuffed birds.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
6  As the spring came on, I grew more and more lonely, and fell back on the telegrapher and the cigar-maker and his canaries for companionship.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIII
7  They were not unlike birds, altogether; having a sharp, brisk, sudden manner, and a little short, spruce way of adjusting themselves, like canaries.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS
8  Her canaries alone number four hundred, and, in addition, there is an army of pug-dogs, hangers-on, and servants.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  When Molly's canary began to molt, he shed feathers all over the house.
2  The canary is a small yellow songbird.