WREN in a Sentence

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For WREN, below is one of 4 sentences:
Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well.

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 Meanings and Examples of WREN
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wren
 n.  small active brown singing birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails
Classic Sentence:
1  Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  She was a plump brown wren of a woman with a cheerful face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
3  Call for the robin redbreast and the wren.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
4  And now at last the young wrens were satisfied, and sat down together and ate and drank, and made merry till quite late into the night.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE WILLOW-WREN AND THE BEAR
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