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  • noun Plural form of blackbird.

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Examples

  • I hear again blackbirds and thrushes in the hedges, and see again bluebells spilling out from the oak woods and over the velvet turf like a creaming of blue water.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • One of the reasons the flight of the blackbirds is nearly impossible to miss while walking along the shore is due to the sound overhead.

    One for the birds in Ajijic, Mexico 2007

  • I call the blackbirds the "Rock 'n' Roll Band" of the avian kingdom, you'll hear why.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Gumbo Lily 2008

  • I call the blackbirds the "Rock 'n' Roll Band" of the avian kingdom, you'll hear why.

    Sun tanning..... Gumbo Lily 2008

  • I hear again blackbirds and thrushes in the hedges, and see again bluebells spilling out from the oak woods and over the velvet turf like a creaming of blue water.

    Chapter 15 1915

  • The blackbirds were his, as the sunshine and the breeze were his, for they all belonged to the day which was his birthday and therefore most surely his.

    Penrod 1914

  • The blackbirds were his, as the sunshine and the breeze were his, for they all belonged to the day which was his birthday and therefore most surely his.

    Penrod Booth Tarkington 1907

  • The blackbirds are the thrushes 'masters, and drive them from any morsel they fancy.

    Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867

  • Now the "blackbirds" are spreading their wings into the curatorial realm.

    Blackbird Singing in the City Night Barbara Jepson 2011

  • Between the poor position of the sun, my crappy binoculars and my inability to ID icterids, I don't know what kind of blackbirds they were.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Dafydd 2008

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