Sentence examples for of the canaries from inspiring English sources

From observation posts, visitors watch the behaviour of the canaries, mice and houseflies for signs of intoxication and form their own conclusions.

There he grows up (if his stunted early life can be described thus) eating bugs and birdseed and mimicking the shrieks and squawks of the canaries that surround him.

Second mortgages, which are bought at sky-high rates by those who have already maxed out on their main mortgage, were one of the canaries signalling a crash in 2007/8.

Ably edited by the musical-theater historian Robert Kimball, it's a trimly streamlined chronology that submits the songwriter's wordslinging to the sternest possible test: just the bare lines on the naked slab of the printed page, conspicuously absent the toe-tapping melodies and showstopping pipes of the canaries and crooners that gave his staves their original snap, crackle and pop.

I have... heard of the canaries".

The popular pastime of canary rearing had given rise to the team's nickname of "The Canaries" by April 1905, and by February 1907 this moniker had been adopted by the national press.

The island is the most fertile of the Canaries.

Not all of the Canaries' vineyards are so exotic.

Agriculture has long been the economic mainstay of the Canaries.

This volcanic island, the second largest of the Canaries, measures 60 miles (100 km) in length.

"The fire has not come under control yet," Fernando Clavijo, regional president of the Canaries, told reporters.