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  • adjective having the approximate size of a sparrow

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Examples

  • My rib cage might have been empty, except for the sparrow-sized heart beating itself to death against my bones.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • My rib cage might have been empty, except for the sparrow-sized heart beating itself to death against my bones.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • My rib cage might have been empty, except for the sparrow-sized heart beating itself to death against my bones.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • I really don't know but they seemed about sparrow-sized to me and looked like tiny chickens waiting to be put on a rotisserie.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Khalil 2009

  • I really don't know but they seemed about sparrow-sized to me and looked like tiny chickens waiting to be put on a rotisserie.

    Adventure, X2 Khalil 2009

  • You take little sparrow-sized sips, and you keep telling yourself you like the taste, and by the time you get to the bottom of the glass, it's true.

    The Burglar On The Prowl Block, Lawrence 2004

  • The Quelea bird (Black-Faced Dioch) is a sparrow-sized weaver that may be the world's most destructive grain-eating bird.

    Chapter 10 1981

  • The five-hundred-square-mile enclave in which birds of this solitary flock chose to build their nests of heaped grass, deposit their mushroom-colored eggs and hatch their sparrow-sized chicks was a mere postage stamp on a vast package of forbidding terrain.

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

  • Each of these last incorporated a china dove, sparrow-sized if the roses were to be believed, lying dead with wings outstretched amid the pallid blooms.

    More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

  • Each of these last incorporated a china dove, sparrow-sized if the roses were to be believed, lying dead with wings outstretched amid the pallid blooms.

    More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

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