PARROT in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for PARROT, such as:

1. A parrot can sometimes make you embarrassed.
2. She wore a green brocade dress and held a green parrot on her finger.
3. Generations of students have learnt to parrot the standard explanations.
4. That parrot one, I believe, is one of my great, great, great, great aunts.
5. The colonel, perchance to relieve his feelings, began to scold like a wet parrot.

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 Meanings and Examples of PARROT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
parrot
 v.  repeat mindlessly
 n.  a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated
Classic Sentence:
1  She cocked her head and Scarlett thought she looked like nothing so much as an old, knowing parrot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
2  She turned and there stood India, white faced, her pale eyes blazing, and Archie, malevolent as a one-eyed parrot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
3  The parrot and the mockingbird were the property of Madame Lebrun, and they had the right to make all the noise they wished.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In I
4  The parrot fortunately offered no further interruption to the entertainment, the whole venom of his nature apparently having been cherished up and hurled against the twins in that one impetuous outburst.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  The colonel, perchance to relieve his feelings, began to scold like a wet parrot.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  St. Clare took the same kind of amusement in the child that a man might in the tricks of a parrot or a pointer.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
7  She wore a green brocade dress and held a green parrot on her finger.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  They looked at the portraits and found the plain little girl dressed in green brocade and holding the parrot on her finger.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  That parrot one, I believe, is one of my great, great, great, great aunts.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  Well, there was a big outlandish parrot on each side of the clock, made out of something like chalk, and painted up gaudy.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII.
11  "She is under the big chestnut-tree," replied the spoiled brat, as he gave, in spite of his mother's commands, live flies to the parrot, which seemed keenly to relish such fare.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52. Toxicology.
12  The parrot alone was enough to drive her distracted, for he soon felt that she did not admire him, and revenged himself by being as mischievous as possible.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
13  She brought me up to royalties, and people with stars and garters, and elderly ladies with gigantic tiaras and parrot noses.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
Example Sentence:
1  A parrot can sometimes make you embarrassed.
2  Generations of students have learnt to parrot the standard explanations.
3  It has eight lashing arms and two slashing tentacles growing straight out of its head and it's got serrated suckers that can latch on to the slimiest of prey and it's got a parrot beak that can rip flesh.