Wondering how to use Starlings in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning .
Starlings meaning
plural of starling
Using Starlings
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of starling
- In the example corpus, starlings often appears in combinations such as: starlings and, of starlings, the starlings.
Context around Starlings
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Starlings
- In this selection, "starlings" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, robins, seeing, introduce, hogs, spend and near stand out and add context to how "starlings" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and gregarious starlings spend a and cent more starlings and 3. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "starlings" sits close to words such as abdulrasheed, abhinav and aboriginals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with starlings
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Starlings, hogs, honeybees, rats, pigeons, the list goes on. (9 words)
Why I was paying council tax just to accommodate starlings? (10 words)
Robins, starlings and waxwings enjoy a little partying in the spring. (11 words)
In London, peregrines ate 15 per cent fewer pigeons as prey during lockdown, and were replaced with 7 per cent more starlings and 3 per cent more parakeets, while peregrines in other cities made no changes. (36 words)
On Valentine's Day, Jason Walker shared photos of the display on the Spotted Redditch Facebook page and said: "Whilst walking my dog the murmuration of starlings over town centre tonight". (31 words)
Some critics have suggested the hubbub surrounding the findings in the study is overblown: Some of the declines in numbers represent invasive bird populations, like starlings and house sparrows. (29 words)
Why I was paying council tax just to accommodate starlings? (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
In London, peregrines ate 15 per cent fewer pigeons as prey during lockdown, and were replaced with 7 per cent more starlings and 3 per cent more parakeets, while peregrines in other cities made no changes.
Robins, starlings and waxwings enjoy a little partying in the spring.
Starlings like to nest in the eaves of houses, which can cause problems and lead people to replacing their soffits and blocking off potential nesting sites.
There have been, and are, many ways of seeing starlings – and they all have something to tell us.
Brighton Pier Group chief executive Anne Ackord said the team looks forward to welcoming the starlings back home every year.
On Valentine's Day, Jason Walker shared photos of the display on the Spotted Redditch Facebook page and said: "Whilst walking my dog the murmuration of starlings over town centre tonight".
Schieffelin did introduce starlings in the 1890s, but it wasn’t because he loved the Bard.
Tens of thousands of starlings have been forming murmurations at sunset over Great Gonerby, near Grantham, for weeks.
Urban legend credits a New York pharmacist named Eugene Schieffelin for introducing starlings to the U.S. because of his love of Shakespeare.
One of the reasons I love starlings is the incredible murmurations they create in autumn, just before roosting in the evenings.
Starlings, hogs, honeybees, rats, pigeons, the list goes on.
A black kite flies under a murmuration of migrating starlings at a landfill near the city of Be'er Sheva, Israel, on December 26, 2016.
Noisy and gregarious, starlings spend a lot of the year in flocks.
Some critics have suggested the hubbub surrounding the findings in the study is overblown: Some of the declines in numbers represent invasive bird populations, like starlings and house sparrows.
Starlings are photographed at their nesting box in a private garden in the town of Bobruisk, Belarus, on April 8, 2018.
Why I was paying council tax just to accommodate starlings?
A murmuration of starlings near the village of Beit Kama in southern Israel.
In addition, a waxwing’s liver constitutes nearly 5 percent of its total body weight, compared to just under 3 percent for starlings and finches.
Mr Buchanan aiming at some unruly starlings that had roosted in the trees near his home in suburban Maryland in 1966.
Photographer Natasha Weyers captured the moment the starlings formed the rabbit head between 3.45pm and 4pm on Monday.
Common combinations with starlings
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- starlings and 5×
- of starlings 3×
- the starlings 2×