Sentence examples for poor bird from inspiring English sources

The poor bird; the poor man.

implied that he might have killed the poor bird.

Watching a group of Palestinian kids sing the round Ah, Poor Bird in an ancient, tiny Greek Orthodox church on a hill-side outside Ramallah.

Another lovely detail appears at the extreme right of the painting, near that boy who has his hand on the cord that might release the cage – should that poor bird ever need a cage again, and not a fresh, scooped corner of the kitchen garden.

The only worry is that of over-cooking, but that's hardly the poor bird's fault.

He'd looked down at the owl again, and had been seized with dismay and shame at the sight of the poor bird's desecrated body".

"She said, 'Here, Miss Fallaci.' I looked like a poor, pitiful bird".

"Poor birds! their fate was pie" writes Robinson.

These poor birds are also seeking refuge, for they are as sensitive to noise pollution as we are and it is has been proven that high noise levels dramatically reduce the biodiversity of bird life.

My husband would always tell the story about the time he'd gone fishing in Lampedusa and, since the fish weren't biting, he'd bagged the poor birds that alighted on the boat to rest on their migration to Africa.

There's a pleasant smell like campfires in the air, and I think that the old turpentine-pine forests that ring the city must be on fire, which happens once a year or so, and I wonder about all those poor birds seared out of their sleep and into the disorienting darkness.