OWL in a Sentence

Learn OWL 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.

For OWL, below is one of 39 sentences:
The bright little figures ceased to move about below, a noiseless owl flitted by, and I shivered with the chill of the night.

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 Meanings and Examples of OWL
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owl
 n.  any species of raptorial birds of the family Strigidae
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  He glowered at her like a downy young owl.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
2  We might get some puppies, or owl eggs, or snakeskins.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
3  In the ravine a ringdove mourned plaintively, and somewhere off in the bushes an owl hooted.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
4  There was no sound abroad except the hooting of an old owl in the top of a water-oak, and the everlasting voice of the sea, that was not uplifted at that soft hour.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In III
5  The old owl no longer hooted, and the water-oaks had ceased to moan as they bent their heads.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XI
6  So she watched them every hour of the day, and had learned to see like an owl at night to watch them then.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  Instead of the voices of her children, she hears by day the moans of the dove, and by night the screams of the hideous owl.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  He and his friends had hardly crouched down before the melancholy hooting of a mountain owl was heard within a few yards of them, which was immediately answered by another hoot at a small distance.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
9  She became, of a sudden, solemn as an owl.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
10  A churchyard haunter at whom the owl hoots and the ivy mocks tap-tap-tapping on the pane.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
11  The owl hoots and the ivy mocks tap-tap-tapping on the pane.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
12  He lit up the difficult places with a flash-light torch, and they went on again, while an owl softly hooted over the oaks, and Flossie padded silently around.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
13  The bright little figures ceased to move about below, a noiseless owl flitted by, and I shivered with the chill of the night.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
14  The hooting of a distant owl was all the sound that troubled the dead stillness.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  Spirits whispered in the rustling leaves, ghosts lurked in the murky nooks, the deep baying of a hound floated up out of the distance, an owl answered with his sepulchral note.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
Example Sentence:
1  This type of owl prefers a desert habitat.
2  When the owl sings, the nightingale will hold her peace.
3  An owl is the king of the night.
4  One has lived too near a wood to be frightened by owls.
5  He who lives near the woods is not frightened by owls.
6  The great majority of barn owls are reared in captivity.
7  Every night we hear the great owls hoot and laugh in uncanny fashion.