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- verb Present participle of
caw .
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Examples
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Lighting the dark mystery of the night and wondering what all the cawing is about.
something to crow about « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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Wright Brothers and Plymouth Rock Pilgrims taking what they cannot return and we, wondering what all the cawing is about.
something to crow about « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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Flying sacred skies and bulldozing burials and wondering what all the cawing is about.
something to crow about « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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Judging from how your fellow contestants were laughing during this week's results show, it seemed like your cawing was a dare or something.
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Here in Albany the city has a faction of people who hate the many crows and try to scare them away with recorded "cawing" noises coming from machines mounted on cars they drive arond "infested" neighborhoods...since when do they have less right to the neighborhood than we do?
Holy Birds, Holy Trees Anne Johnson 2008
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This time the jay, fat as a boot, bluer than sky gone blue now that the rain has finished with us for a while, this loud jay at the neck of a black walnut keeps cawing
Hungry 2009
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The birds circled and turned southwest, cawing to the travelers as they went.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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There we sat, five fools, all of us as black as crows, sitting perched on a stack of ties cawing about something that could have gotten us all killed.
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In all your shrill cawing and name-calling, you never once addressed my point.
GOP senator to Sotomayor: your speeches 'bug the hell out of me' 2009
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The birds circled and turned southwest, cawing to the travelers as they went.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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