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  • noun Plural form of sparrow.

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Examples

  • He came up behind her at the sink, and as he'd circled his arms around her and whispered what he planned to do once he took her back to bed, Jorie laughed, the sort of sweet laughter that summoned the sparrows from the trees, so that one after another perched on the windowsill, just to listen, just to be near.

    Excerpt: Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman 2001

  • The answer is that the nations of the world need to be as smart as a flock of sparrows, which is a lot smarter than existing climate control treaties.

    Nigel Barber: Small Birds Solve Global Warming Nigel Barber 2010

  • The answer is that the nations of the world need to be as smart as a flock of sparrows, which is a lot smarter than existing climate control treaties.

    Nigel Barber: Small Birds Solve Global Warming Nigel Barber 2010

  • After the accident, the sparrows were the first to die.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • After the accident, the sparrows were the first to die.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • The answer is that the nations of the world need to be as smart as a flock of sparrows, which is a lot smarter than existing climate control treaties.

    Nigel Barber: Small Birds Solve Global Warming Nigel Barber 2010

  • The answer is that the nations of the world need to be as smart as a flock of sparrows, which is a lot smarter than existing climate control treaties.

    Nigel Barber: Small Birds Solve Global Warming Nigel Barber 2010

  • I also have some golden crowned sparrows, which is quite exciting because I don't remember seeing them in the garden before.

    Happy Easter. intertext 2006

  • Rather it was for a certain fleet-winged little hawk, a hunter of sparrows, that is one of the most free spirits in all the jungle.

    O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various

  • They threw open the big window and in flooded the perfume of lilacs and the twitter of sparrows, which is the nearest to

    The Seventh Noon Frederick Orin Bartlett

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