Sentence examples for the cuckoo was from inspiring English sources
The call of the cuckoo was the dominant birdsong, and I fell to thinking about this unpleasant bird, with its habit of shovelling out the eggs or newly hatched nestlings of its unfortunate host.
The sound of the cuckoo is heard in the land".
The call of the cuckoo is instantly recognisable.
"The Cuckoo" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned) for sexual content and violence.
The title refers to one character's observation that the cuckoo is the only creature in nature to gives up its young to have them raised by others.
Lou Canova, the cheesy, chunky lounge-bar singer, is the cuckoo in the nest – or, more accurately, the cuckoo is his on-off extra-marital dalliance: a restless mafia wife called Tina.
The last, croaking calls of the cuckoo are now but a memory, its clarion call replaced by bountiful blooms along headlands and lanesides.
AS THE CUCKOO CLOCK on the living room wall mooed the hour (yes, mooed: the cuckoo is a cow, the clock a gift from Ms. Sieger), Mr. Wehrli mused on cultural stereotypes, like the orderliness of the Swiss.
Visiting when the hosts are away from the nest the cuckoo is able to place her egg in the nest after the host has started the clutch but before incubation has begun.
So the call of the cuckoo is not good news to smaller avian species, and I am pleased that, in our part of Gloucestershire, it does not seem to be such a common visitor.
PG-13, 104 minutes "The Cuckoo" is set during a confusing period at the end of World War II, when the Nazi occupiers of Finland were in retreat from the advancing Russian army.
