Sentence examples for sea canary from inspiring English sources

Noc's pathetic squeaks echo through the fog of noise, a sea canary singing in the mine.

Some of the chatty creatures even let out chirps and moans, calls that have earned them the romantic nickname "sea canary" but that to me sounded uncannily like Han Solo's sidekick Chewbacca lamenting a hangover.

They emit high-pitched whistling sounds, for which early sailors gave them the nickname sea canaries.

Rockets launched and fireworks bloomed: canary, cornflower, sea-foam.

It is an extremely vocal cetacean and thus has also been referred to as the "canary of the sea".

Other plants of the family Poaceae known as reeds are giant reed (Arundo donax), sea reed (Ammophila arenaria), reed canary grass (Phalaris), and reedgrass, or bluejoint (Calamagrostis).

This time - in grand old comedy tradition - they're going to college. 5 June Dumb fun 20 years on as Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels return to the roles that made them decapitate a canary, upset a sea bass and pee over each other - all in the name of laffs!

"They are the classic canary of the seas".

Could cetaceans act as canaries in the sea, as advance alarms of potentially dangerous seismic activity?

Meanwhile, off Manitoba in Hudson Bay, you'll find belugas, their impressive singing earning them the moniker "canaries of the sea".

If marine mammals are the canaries of the sea – offering advance warning signs of the healthy state, or otherwise, of our waters – then the new report from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) on the extraordinary numbers of seals, porpoises, dolphins and even whales appearing in the Thames must be good news.