linnets

[US]/'lɪnɪt/
[UK]/'lɪnɪt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a small songbird that eats seeds, with olive-colored feathers and a melodious voice.

Example Sentences

The linnet chirps her vernal song.

Real-world Examples

Can never tear the linnet from the leaf.

Source: Classic English poetry recitation.

Any linnet Would laugh at the foolish hope, and see Nothing in it.

Source: British Students' Science Reader

This linnet, as near as I can remember, seemed to be somewhat larger than an English swan.

Source: Gulliver's Travels (Original Version)

The note of a linnet, the humming of a bee, these are the sounds about my sanctuary.

Source: Essays on the Four Seasons

It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing.

Source: Jane Eyre (Original Version)

The grass finches, the vireos, the wrens, and the linnets have joined their voices to the chorus, and the bobolinks are loudest in their song.

Source: American Version Language Arts Volume 6

Here I find the little water ouzel as much at home as any linnet in a leafy grove, seeming to take the greater delight the more boisterous the stream.

Source: Summer walks through the mountains.

He is not web-footed, yet he dives fearlessly into foaming rapids, seeming to take the greater delight the more boisterous the stream, always as cheerful and calm as any linnet in a grove.

Source: Yosemite

It was really only a little linnet singing outside his window, but it was so long since he had heard a bird sing in his garden that it seemed to him to be the most beautiful music in the world.

Source: Selected Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde

Some of the nests are built in trees thirty or forty feet from the ground, and even in garrets, as if seeking the company and protection of man, like swallows and linnets, though accustomed to the wildest solitude.

Source: Summer walks through the mountains.

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