How do you use Vireo in a sentence? See 4 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Vireo in a sentence
Vireo meaning
- Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus Vireo, that have grey-green plumage.
- Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, shrike-vireos, greenlets, and peppershrikes.
Synonyms of Vireo
Using Vireo
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus Vireo, that have grey-green plumage. | Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, shrike-vireos, greenlets, and peppershrikes.
- Useful related words include: oscine, oscine bird.
Context around Vireo
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Vireo
- In this selection, "vireo" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, old, philadelphia, small, nests and nearly stand out and add context to how "vireo" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include bell s vireo small migratory and philadelphia vireo nearly as. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "vireo" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with vireo
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hard to find during the summer, old vireo nests are often revealed when the leaves fall. (16 words)
Philadelphia vireo, nearly as drab as its warbling relative, is a rare migrant, found here mostly in fall. (18 words)
Those and other efforts, for example, helped boost local populations of Least Bell’s vireo, small migratory songbirds listed as endangered in the 1980s. (24 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)
Those and other efforts, for example, helped boost local populations of Least Bell’s vireo, small migratory songbirds listed as endangered in the 1980s. (24 words)
Philadelphia vireo, nearly as drab as its warbling relative, is a rare migrant, found here mostly in fall. (18 words)
Example sentences (4)
Those and other efforts, for example, helped boost local populations of Least Bell’s vireo, small migratory songbirds listed as endangered in the 1980s.
Hard to find during the summer, old vireo nests are often revealed when the leaves fall.
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.
Philadelphia vireo, nearly as drab as its warbling relative, is a rare migrant, found here mostly in fall.