Get to know Shrike better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Shrike meaning
Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae which are known for their habit of catching other birds and small animals and impaling the uneaten portions of their bodies on thorns.
Synonyms of Shrike
Using Shrike
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae which are known for their habit of catching other birds and small animals and impaling the uneaten portions of their bodies on thorns.
- Useful related words include: oscine, oscine bird.
- In the example corpus, shrike often appears in combinations such as: the shrike, and shrike.
Context around Shrike
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shrike
- In this selection, "shrike" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, jay, piping, mentee, maya, explains and destroys stand out and add context to how "shrike" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include agm 45 shrike and agm and as a shrike then classified. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shrike" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shrike
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Was it the call of a shrike? (7 words)
What is South Australia’s emblematic piping shrike? (8 words)
There's a reason why Shrike’s voice is the first thing we hear. (14 words)
Like a shrike, a vireo has a blunt-tipped bill with a nasty little hook on the end — a tool quite different from the hookless and fine-tipped bill of a warbler, adapted more for probing than for grabbing. (39 words)
Hunting his mentee, Shrike destroys a city held aloft by gasbags, killing thousands, but neither our hero nor her new pilot pals takes even a second to mourn the loss — or to ask whether she’s at all culpable. (39 words)
Musashi was hailed as an extraordinary sumi-e artist in the use of ink monochrome as depicted in two such paintings: "Shrike Perched in a Dead Tree" (Koboku Meigekizu, 枯木鳴鵙図) and "Wild Geese Among Reeds" (Rozanzu, 魯山図). (37 words)
Was it the call of a shrike? (7 words)
What is South Australia’s emblematic piping shrike? (8 words)
Example sentences (17)
As a result, June's campaign backfires spectacularly in Fear The Walking Dead season 8. By the end of "Blue Jay," Shrike has returned.
Morgan and Madison make it to the shipyard where Shrike (Maya Eshet) sent Mo and her prefects clear the Carrion guarding the P.A.D.R.E. containers, only to find the yard mostly empty.
She undoubtedly relishes being a baddie as Vadic, captain of the spiky, scary spaceship called the Shrike.
Shrike explains that the siblings didn't know how to go on after their father's death.
Like a shrike, a vireo has a blunt-tipped bill with a nasty little hook on the end — a tool quite different from the hookless and fine-tipped bill of a warbler, adapted more for probing than for grabbing.
Was it the call of a shrike?
What is South Australia’s emblematic piping shrike?
Hunting his mentee, Shrike destroys a city held aloft by gasbags, killing thousands, but neither our hero nor her new pilot pals takes even a second to mourn the loss — or to ask whether she’s at all culpable.
There's a reason why Shrike’s voice is the first thing we hear.
A varied group of individuals are on a pilgrimage to solicit a kind of demon-god called the Shrike on the planet Hyperion in a universe on the edge of the apocalypse.
Carroll's book appendices suggest it is the past tense of the verb to 'outgribe', connected with the old verb to 'grike' or 'shrike', which derived 'shriek' and 'creak' and hence 'squeak'.
Each pilgrim tells his or her tale of why they are going to see the Shrike.
It was initially described as a shrike, then classified as an Eopsalteria "robin", and may actually be an Acrocephalus warbler.
It was originally developed by Texas Instruments as a replacement for the AGM-45 Shrike and AGM-78 Standard ARM system.
Musashi was hailed as an extraordinary sumi-e artist in the use of ink monochrome as depicted in two such paintings: "Shrike Perched in a Dead Tree" (Koboku Meigekizu, 枯木鳴鵙図) and "Wild Geese Among Reeds" (Rozanzu, 魯山図).
The Prionopidae and Malaconotidae are quite closely related to the Laniidae, and were formerly included in the shrike family.
Underneath the wings, new pylons were fitted to carry an ECM pod and Shrike anti-radar missiles at wing hardpoint locations; these hardpoints had originally been installed for the purpose of carrying the cancelled Skybolt nuclear missile.
Common combinations with shrike
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: