Sentence examples for distant song from inspiring English sources

Blue tits and great tits competed with robins and wrens, and a distant song thrush joined the chorus.

Its staging reflects us back to ourselves, like pale ghosts peering into the abyss, straining to hear a distant song.

On the evidence of Ain't Them Bodies Saints, while the western may not be alive and kicking, its ghosts still haunt the landscape of modern cinema, drifting across the misty screens of the 21st century like a distant song – half forgotten, yet still remembered, and very much loved.

Dressed in white and seeming every bit a future figurehead, she took the stage just after the distant song had arrived at its ethereal ending mantra: "the youth … the youth … the youth".

The album is full of tinny, distant songs that sound as though they're time-travelling: one track filters Saint Pepsi's "Enjoy Yourself," which riffs on Michael Jackson, as if it were playing in an empty mall.

(Robert is better at going down rabbit holes than I am). The album is full of tinny, distant songs that sound as though they're time-travelling: one track filters Saint Pepsi's "Enjoy Yourself," which riffs on Michael Jackson, as if it were playing in an empty mall.

In this situation, we observed a trend towards a stronger response to the distant neighbour song than to the adjacent neighbour song that a larger sample size might be able to detect (Fig. 3).

We thus predict lowest responses to adjacent neighbour songs, intermediate responses to distant neighbour songs and high responses to stranger songs.

Our playback procedure of distant neighbour song mimicked a group member leaving its territory and attempting to come up closer to the tested male.

Responses of subjects to distant neighbour songs can be compared to responses to chimeric songs (stranger songs in which the group signature was artificially inserted) tested in this previous study.

As the probability of hearing songs produced by a given individual decreases with the emitter-receiver distance, birds are likely to be unfamiliar with their distant neighbours' songs, or a lot less familiar than with their adjacent neighbours' songs.