Sentence examples for bird of passage from inspiring English sources
noun
A migratory bird, especially a passage migrant.
His autobiography, Bird of Passage, was published in 1985.
His novel is, in many ways, all over the map, and he may be just a bird of passage here.
In his early years, Daniel Klein darted through Europe like a bird of passage, moving from town to town under the same vagabond spell that draws so many young backpackers today.
For years the closest thing he had to a permanent address was his office at this magazine, where his mail used to pile up in wire baskets until Alastair suddenly swooped in for a few months, like some tall, sandy-haired bird of passage, before just as suddenly departing.
"I don't think you should be scared to wear red eye shadow, you know?" If you still find the makeup diva intimidating, it may help to think of her as someone like you, a bird of passage among the lipstick displays, whose interests and dreams reach far beyond the tip of her mascara wand.
Cruelty and conflagration … Birds of Passage.
Nearly half of Italian immigrants were "birds of passage" who eventually returned to Italy.
"Birds of Passage," in its passionate engagement with the Wayuu way of life, preserves and embodies it.
By the time the gray gravel between tracks shone in broad daylight, twenty more birds of passage had joined us.
