How to Use birdhouse in a Sentence

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  • During the day, purple martins fly in and out of the birdhouse in the backyard.
    Brantley Hargrove, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Mehanny came into the room with a small wooden birdhouse and slapped the man across the face with it.
    Sarah Elsesser, ajc, 28 Mar. 2017
  • Why not walk down to the large birdhouse-like structure in your neighbor’s yard and grab one?
    Danika Worthington, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
  • Who can’t make room in their garden for an adorable birdhouse?
    Michelle Slatalla, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
  • I had been given a small birdhouse as a Christmas gift.
    Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 May 2017
  • Nature lovers will meet their match with this stylish birdhouse.
    Tess Garcia, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2022
  • As punishment for scaring Philip, Becky burned the birdhouse down, snake and all.
    Ann Neumann, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • The bar was former a birdhouse, according to the resort.
    Khobi Price, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Shovir plans to build birdhouses that are symbols of the souls lost to gun violence.
    Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2018
  • This birdhouse is made from stainless steel reclaimed from that very cart.
    Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 17 June 2022
  • The tiny birdhouse that produces wren chicks each year is my precious jewel box.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2021
  • Fall is the best time to hang a birdhouse designed for wrens (with an entrance exactly 1⅛-inch wide).
    Boston.com Real Estate, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Several years ago, my grandson gave me a tiny birdhouse as a gift.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2019
  • Roll out the welcome mat for winged visitors by hanging a birdhouse or two in your yard.
    Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Sandy Vogel stood outside the remnants of her home of three decades holding a wood birdhouse that her son had just plucked off a tree.
    Hannah Frystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
  • Ella Irwin, Twitter’s head of trust and safety, has left the birdhouse.
    Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 2 June 2023
  • But all is not well among the baskets, birdhouses and earthenware bowls.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • While the parties await the court's decision, a wooden dock still stands on the property along with a metal bench, a birdhouse and piles of brush.
    Erin Adler, Star Tribune, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The best birdhouses have sloped roofs and gaps for ventilation, and this birdhouse has both.
    Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 May 2023
  • The app’s home button is also still shaped like a birdhouse, and the company’s website — at least for now — remains Twitter.com.
    Kate Conger, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • One sports a gambrel roof, another a saltbox shape, a third the shape of a whimsical birdhouse.
    Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 6 June 2017
  • In one corner are two large birdhouses with singing canaries that taunt the chickens wandering in the grass.
    New York Times, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Cleaning this birdhouse is easy—simply lift the front wooden panel to access the inside of the birdhouse.
    Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 May 2023
  • Elsewhere on the garden grounds are a birdhouse modelled on a hot-dog cart, one suspended by wires, and one that looks like a big sweet potato.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • Kids can stuff scarecrows, paint pumpkins and birdhouses, and create their own art.
    Adele Chapin, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • With Dirt Use planting tools to root flower buds or seeds into the soil. Arrange rocks and birdhouse on top to design your own landscape.
    Good Housekeeping, 24 July 2015
  • The students built and sold birdhouses for the house wren, and donated their profits to charities.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2019
  • It was also known for the hundreds of handmade birdhouses lining the building’s walls both inside and out.
    Marc Vartabedian, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2017
  • Birds of a Feather Hang this birdhouse from a tree branch or an outdoor beam and just wait for colorful flying friends to pay your yard a visit.
    Alejandra Bennett, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • To help attract birds to the feeder, plant bird-attracting flowers and plants in your yard and add birdhouses or birdbaths.
    Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2023

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