How To Use poorwill In A Sentence
- replied the second voice, and with that, the soft whistle of a whippoorwill's call echoed around the manor.
- We even visited the walkway at night with the good fortune of looking down on one of the rarest birds of our trip, a brown nightjar, a not too distant relative of our whippoorwill, but a very rare and little-known bird.
- Their weird cries are reflected in the common names for many of the species, e.g., whippoorwill, chuck-will's-widow, poorwill, poor-me-one, potoo, and pauraque. Languagehat.com: ORNITHONOMY.
- Moreover, the manner in which the broken branch is rendered in the Drayton watercolor of the whippoorwill (P1.
- The "skirl" of the nighthawk ceases; but away through the woods, down at the creek, the whippoorwill begins her oft-repeated trinity of notes. Some Summer Days in Iowa
- No sound came to break the quiet of the evening hour save the monotonous plaint of a whippoorwill in a distant brake, and the ceaseless chirm of insects among the leafy boughs and down in the ferns that clustered on the knolls round about. The Golden Dog
- A distant relative of the whippoorwill, the potoo feeds mainly at night, opening its short, curved bill very wide to sweep up flying insects.
- Their weird cries are reflected in the common names for many of the species, e.g., whippoorwill, chuck-will's-widow, poorwill, poor-me-one, potoo, and pauraque. Languagehat.com: ORNITHONOMY.
- Smart men supposedly ignored dizzy dames and all the rest, listening not to the whippoorwill but to cash registers.
- There were many whippoorwills, or rather Brazilian birds related to them; they uttered at intervals through the night a succession of notes suggesting both those of our whippoorwill and those of our big chuck-will's-widow of the Gulf Through the Brazilian Wilderness
