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- noun Plural form of
meadowlark .
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Examples
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Some birds - such as meadowlarks and killdeers - prefer grassy open areas.
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Some said the fields, planted and mowed for pheasants, provided homes for other grassland and shrub-loving animals, such as meadowlarks and rabbits.
unknown title 2009
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Some said the fields, planted and mowed for pheasants, provided homes for other grassland and shrub-loving animals, such as meadowlarks and rabbits.
unknown title 2009
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We saw deer, a golden eagle, two bald eagles, two or three meadowlarks, an assortment of northern harriers.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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I noticed with consternation that after Deryl and Dave made a beautiful to human eyes garden where the favored weeds once grew, the meadowlarks went somewhere else.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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I noticed with consternation that after Deryl and Dave made a beautiful to human eyes garden where the favored weeds once grew, the meadowlarks went somewhere else.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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We saw deer, a golden eagle, two bald eagles, two or three meadowlarks, an assortment of northern harriers.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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But even last week, on a warm and windy spring day as the meadowlarks chirped, snakes slithered and grouse ran through the sagebrush, he strolled the battlefield with the enthusiasm of a 10-year-old boy, pointing out where he raced up the bluffs to get a feeling for what the troops encountered during the two-day battle.
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I sit over it, and sit over it, but the confounded meadowlarks keep echoing in my ears, and I begin to see the fields, and the redwood canyons, and Selim.
CHAPTER XXIII 2010
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No breath of wind stirred over the drowsing fields, from which arose the calls of quail and the notes of meadowlarks.
CHAPTER XVIII 2010
frogapplause commented on the word meadowlarks
The air had become like cotton candy, spun not from sugar but the sex glands of meadowlarks and dry white wine.
—Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
April 8, 2010