Sentence examples for of a canary from inspiring English sources

The cover image alone, of a canary whose wings are about to be cut, is indelible.

Overlooking the table was another bit of narrative whimsy in the form of a canary yellow canvas.

Those numbers are "a bit of a canary in the coal mine," said Deborah L. Rhode, another Stanford law professor.

"I think this whale was sort of a canary in the coal mine, if you will, letting people know there are potential problems in the ecosystem," Mr. White said, referring to a decline in the Puget Sound's orca population.

She's got the idea that the soul of a canary, which died a couple of years ago, has taken charge of a filly now being racet at Santa Anita track.

The writers toyed with opening images of a canary hurtling down a mine shaft, singing its little head off, as the years of its life flash by - hence the now-abandoned subtitle.

In a sense, one could think of journalists as equivalent to a canary in a coal mine.

It's O.K. for ABC to seek the comfort of a canary-yellow tracksuit, but the ensemble really falls apart when it's tarted up with a leopard-skin belt.

Operating out of a canary-yellow, Victorian-style house that he used to share with a bakery, Mr. Simonetti darts about in a light blue surgical smock, which protects his starched business shirts from the oils that lubricate the valves of the shiny tubas in his showroom.

And it's complemented by David Toser's costumes, all in shades of gray (with one delightful burst of color: a canary yellow hat).

It's the equivalent of using a canary in a mine to monitor air quality although, in this case, any toy animal is acceptable.