Sentence examples for parrot about from inspiring English sources

I'm sick as a parrot about it, too, because I desperately wanted to get into it this time.

In an talk on Edge.org, Dr. Pepperberg told of an effort to teach the parrot about phonemes using colored tokens marked with letter combinations like sh and ch.

Sometimes his borrowings are clear, as in "Flaubert's Parrot" (about a man whose obsession with Flaubert masks his grief for his marriage) or "Arthur & George" (a mystery about the real-life Arthur Conan Doyle).

Both programs will probably include "The Hairy Man," a humorous tale of a swamp creature; "Urashimo Taro," about a little boy taken on an undersea journey by a tortoise; and "The Brave Little Parrot," about a rescue from a storm.

Economists still parrot about a recession in the wings, (squawk! squawk!) but this is contrapuntal to what we're seeing.

For others, you can get aftermarket Bluetooth kits like the Parrot DriveBlue (about $225) or Bluetooth headsets (about $100 for use with Bluetooth phones, about $180 for other phones requiring Bluetooth adapters).

Now the victim, Xu realized that the accusations he had parroted about others "were nothing but lies".

The Long Island Parrot Society has about 700 members, and about 200 of them meet monthly at the American Legion Post in Babylon.

(Grant put more drama into his "Parrot Tulips," from about 1912, than into any of the paintings that relate to his own life.) Nor were these artists competitive, either with one another or in the market.

A porcelain parrot, above, about three feet tall ($14,000), is from Meissen, the German company.

The drone, called Parrot, costs about $200, which is one reason there are no plans to market it at the moment.