How to Use thrush in a Sentence

thrush

noun

• Someday Freya may stroll her child down the road telling the stories of our deer and porcupines, the nests and the thrush.
  — Todd R. Nelson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Aug. 2020
• Herbs to start from seed: Sorrel Geese, seagulls, thrushes: This is the week the geese come back.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2023
• Sightings of seagulls have been made as well as thrushes and robins.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2023
• Here are some natural remedies that may be used to treat thrush.
  — Nicole Harris, Parents, 28 June 2023
• Birds fly behind, finches and macaws and vultures and larks, monarchs and thrushes and curlews and crows.
  — David Allen, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• The group froze at every chirp of a thrush or chaffinch, one hand holding the binoculars, the other a tombstone for balance.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• The species with the worst impacts decreased by roughly twice that, including the riverbank warbler, dusky-throated Antshrike, and the white-necked thrush.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2022
• An uncontrolled growth of cells in your mouth may produce white patches on your tongue that look similar to oral thrush.
  — Amanda Gardner, Health, 21 Jan. 2024
• But be careful: if left untreated, the infection could worsen and spread to the surrounding skin or cause oral thrush.
  — Isadora Baum, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
• Across the country, efforts have sprung up to encourage homeowners to do their part to prevent the thump of a warbler or thrush against their windows.
  — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2022
• The bird is a blue-gray and yellow thrush sized bird with a chirp that sounds similar to a cricket. Costa Rica and Panama are home to over 50 species of hummingbirds.
  — Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• One of the most common migrants recorded was the gray-cheeked thrush, a shy bird of the northern boreal forest that is rarely seen in the northeast U.S. during fall migration.
  — Tom Langen, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
• She has been tested for strep and flu, treated for thrush and checked for less common ailments that might cause this cluster of symptoms, but all have come back negative.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2020
• The afternoon sun slants through the glass, throwing shadows on a small twisted-wire Tour Eiffel at his elbow, and in the greenery below, as if on cue, a thrush begins its song.
  — Nancy Hass Ilyes Griyeb, New York Times, 9 May 2023
• Wood thrushes dueled with their melodious birdsong across the bog, sounding like an entire bird choir.
  — Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
• Prior to its emergence in 2009, fungi in the genus Candida were best known for causing benign cases of thrush, a white overgrowth on the tongue or genitals.
  — Sophie Cousins, National Geographic, 23 Oct. 2020
• This story has been corrected to show that South Carolina shifted in 1948 from the mockingbird to the Carolina wren, not the Carolina thrush.
  — Curt Anderson, ajc, 5 Nov. 2021
• Skeen focused on four common species of songbirds called thrushes, but there are dozens of species found throughout Chicago after crashing into the city’s buildings.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2023
• The holiday weekend traffic on Interstate 5 had slowed to a crawl, the thrush of cars inching toward SeaTac airport moving at a painfully slow pace.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Some carry them in their pockets or a paper bag, and the rehab center uses soft laundry baskets to house the birds, such as the recovering Swainson’s thrush pictured above.
  — National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2020
• Losing about 40 pounds due to nausea and thrush, Alfa could barely recognize herself and avoided FaceTiming her friends and boyfriend.
  — Essence, 25 Sep. 2023
• The study focused on birds that move at night, as most migrators do, particularly perching birds such as warblers, thrushes and sparrows.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2023
• Oral candidiasis—sometimes more commonly known as oral thrush—is a fungal infection that occurs in the mouth, says Dr. Nyugen.
  — Lauren Krouse, Health.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• Bacteria in your body keep it in check, but if the system is off-balance, the yeast will overgrow and turn into a vaginal yeast infection, diaper rash, thrush or another condition.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
• In North Scituate, a rufous hummingbird and a Bicknell’s thrush.
  — Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2022
• Candida albicans causes oral thrush and vaginal yeast infections, and can also infect the blood, heart and other internal organs.
  — Dominique Mosbergen, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
• In the cold, inhospitable countryside, against a backdrop of political instability in Europe, a solitary thrush is singing.
  — Ben Santer, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2020
• Baking soda Diluted baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) may also combat the symptoms of thrush.
  — Nicole Harris, Parents, 28 June 2023
• Heckscher, a professor at Delaware State University, is an ornithologist who studies thrushes, sparrows and other migrating songbirds.
  — Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
• Someday Freya may stroll her child down the road telling the stories of our deer and porcupines, the nests and the thrush.
  — Todd R. Nelson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024