How to Use grackle in a Sentence

grackle

noun

• The grackle is the foot-long blackbird with bright yellow eyes.
  — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 18 Mar. 2021
• Daniel zeroed in on two of the birds — an adult grackle and fledgling blue jay.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2022
• A man called about an injured common grackle in the yard.
  — Washington Post, 6 June 2017
• But species that can mimic the calls of others, like the catbird and grackle, also scored above the mean.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2023
• The bird is common across Texas and is known as the great-tailed grackle, according to the Houston Audubon.
  — Malak Silmi, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Jan. 2022
• In the video, the young grackle takes a few wobbly steps along a sidewalk, pauses and then wobbles some more.
  — Washington Post, 26 May 2021
• Native Carib grackles on the island also take dry pet food and dip it in rain puddles to soften and eat it.
  — Asher Elbein, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
• Tomatoes explode on the vine and purple eggplants drop like drowsy grackles from the tall, tall eggplant trees.
  — James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• But for most Texans, the great grackle will continue to be a bothersome bird.
  — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2018
• While these other birds fit naturally into the birdhouse scene, the grackle and crow seem awkward in the same space.
  — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2020
• According to the study, published in 2016 in PeerJ, the grackles were given puzzles containing food as a prize.
  — National Geographic, 15 Mar. 2018
• Austin: The luchador grackle statue outside City Hall appears to have burned to the ground in what fire officials suspect was an act of arson.
  — USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2020
• Another first state record, a great-tailed grackle, was discovered at Nelson’s Field in Plymouth on April 10.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2021
• In birds, dunking has anecdotally been observed in more than 25 species in the wild, including grackles.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• In the other, a black grackle flies past a brightly colored arrangement of flowers, crossing paths with a cardinal and grosbeak.
  — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2020
• Some suet feeders have baffles built in to deter pests and predators, while others are designed upside-down to keep larger birds like grackles, blackbirds, and blue jays at bay.
  — Kristen (kj) Callihan, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Mar. 2023
• Jim Monsma is the executive director of City Wildlife, where Dimsdale took the grackle.
  — Washington Post, 26 May 2021
• Furthermore, your intrepid reporter made a rather impressive 32 on the Wonderlic despite a host of sportswriters providing play-by-play like a tree full of grackles.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 2 May 2020
• The focus of the new report, all the songbirds identified so far represent a single subgroup – the Icteridae – that contains blackbirds, orioles, grackles, cowbirds, and others.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2011
• His nature is outgoing and gregarious, more grackle than ivorybill.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
• Our urbanized environments favor bird species that are flexible in their eating and foraging habits, and willing to do bold, innovative things, like blackbirds or grackles or sparrows.
  — National Geographic, 15 May 2016
• Our urbanized environments favor bird species that are flexible in their eating and foraging habits, and willing to do bold, innovative things, like blackbirds or grackles or sparrows.
  — National Geographic, 15 May 2016
• The birds most commonly affected include the American robin, blue jay, common grackle, yellowtail flicker, European starling, northern cardinal, house finch, house sparrow, Eastern bluebird, red-bellied woodpecker, and Carolina wren.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 8 July 2021
• The songbirds most commonly affected include the American robin, blue jay, common grackle, yellowtail flicker, European starling, northern cardinal, house finch, house sparrow, Eastern bluebird, red-bellied woodpecker, and Carolina wren.
  — courant.com, 10 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Nov 2024