How to Use magpie in a Sentence

magpie

noun

• The magpies have one of the best managers in the world.
  — SI.com, 9 May 2018
• There's a magpie on a tree branch right in front of me....
  — Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2021
• The six episodes of the new season are all about, well, the pursuit of magpies.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
• The magpies, just over a foot in length, can cause quite a bit of damage with their sharp beak.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2019
• Not the least of these: The magpie must learn to fly again and the once-ebullient Sam must find a way to, well, soar once more.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2021
• The green magpies are one the most endangered birds on Earth.
  — Karel Janicek, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• His rapid rise caught the magpie eyes of all of Europe’s grandest teams.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• Birds such as crows, ravens, finches and magpies act as hosts for the disease.
  — Hannah Holzer, sacbee, 25 June 2018
• The Javan green magpies are one of the most endangered birds on earth.
  — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2018
• Or what if it is dug up by a badger and carried away by a magpie?
  — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• Peter is such a magpie for a great, telling piece of theater.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• Theft in the name of art is an ancient tradition, and Dylan has been a magpie since the 1960s.
  — Andrea Pitzer, Slate Magazine, 13 June 2017
• Our magpie eyes will always be drawn to foolery and ephemera.
  — Giles Hattersley, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2021
• Researchers found that magpies put most of the spikes on top of their nests to keep away predators like other birds and weasels.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
• Bottlenose dolphins, magpies, and manta rays are among the few species that have passed that test.
  — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 9 Sep. 2019
• Corvids are a family of birds that includes crows, ravens, and magpies—and many are abundant this time of year.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 6 Apr. 2020
• The rooms felt cozy and curated, filled with knickknacks collected over the years, like a magpie’s nest.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2022
• About a magpie approach, all bells and whistles and sequins and taffeta.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2022
• On the seventh night of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, magpies soar to the heavens, hovering wing to wing.
  — Vanessa Hua, SFChronicle.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• The magpie chick which hatched a month ago is being kept in a box and fed using a puppet that imitates a parent bird.
  — Fox News, 17 Apr. 2018
• So Juliette and Reece took the baby bird home and contacted their friends in wildlife rescue about caring for the magpie.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2022
• But that’s exactly how some crows and magpies in Europe have started styling their nests.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2023
• After drinking some water from a bottle, a magpie in a YouTube video can’t reach far enough with its beak to keep sipping.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 3 Nov. 2022
• Sparkly packages and shiny lights might attract you the way silver foil attracts a magpie.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 23 Dec. 2020
• Outside, at the far end of the lawn with the free-range peacocks, there are more exotic birds, including azure-winged magpies and parakeets.
  — New York Times, 30 Oct. 2019
• Once a year Niulang and Zhinü — who became the stars Altair and Vega — are permitted to meet across a bridge of magpies.
  — Joseph Hincks, Time, 28 Aug. 2017
• Another search turned up a dead female wolf along with another dead magpie and a dead skunk.
  — oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2021
• The researchers tested their RSV device by watching a magpie walking and pecking in the grass for about six minutes.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2015
• Austere minimalism went out the window in favor of a magpie-like love of glitz, glamour, and granny-chic style.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2017
• Any magpie with an eye for sparkle relishes awards season, a time when tens of millions of dollars in precious gems and metals roam the red carpet.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024