Sentence examples for a murder of crows from inspiring English sources

Here's my question: "Which of the following collective nouns is the odd one out: A) murder of crows; B) whoop of gorillas; C) busyness of ferrets; D) pointlessness of celebrities?" Answer: D) I want to hear more from the other three.

That's why they call it a murder of crows.' Well, that stuck with me since I was very small.

Mr. Meloy's heroine is one Prue McKeel, 12, a bookish, bike-loving vegetarian whose brother is kidnapped on a crisp Portland afternoon by a murder of crows.

But one day while Prue is minding 1-year-old Mac, a murder of crows swoops down and kidnaps him into the Impassable Wilderness.

The collective nouns we all remember from childhood speak of language's innate fascination with all things avian: a murder of crows, a murmuration of starlings, a parliament of fowls.

Because of their pursuit and killing of smaller birds, a cluster of crows was a "murder of crows," while their glorious feathers obviously was why a group of pheasants was known as a "bouquet".

It is the story of a Chicago family who flee the city to the peace of a Midwestern sunflower farm, only to find themselves menaced by a family of ghosts and a murder of angry crows.

A murder of screaming crows darkened the sky.

At the last sighting, Jeffrey had joined a murder of six crows that also included Billy.

There were no harbingers of doom -- a murder of black crows on the telephone wires outside, a vanity mirror broken jaggedly down its center.

It's a reminder of a dream he had about a gigantic murder of crows descending from the sky, blanketing his apartment with their little black bodies.