How to Use vesper in a Sentence

vesper

noun

• Vespertilian refers to bats, which come out at dusk, when the evening star (Vesperus) appears and when monks say their evening prayers (vespers).
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2020
• Full of quotations from his previous works, and from the Russian Orthodox vespers, the score suggests a return to Russia and to the past.
  — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 22 May 2017
• The Everetts painted the exterior white with trim in teal, gray and vesper violet.
  — Patti Restivo, Howard County Times, 1 June 2018
• Throat and fecal swabs were collected from six different species of horseshoe and vesper bats.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2021
• Every evening at vespers, a different image of the incarnation is invoked.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 10 Dec. 2017
• Other highlights included a prairie warbler, a common yellowthroat, a rusty blackbird, and 3 yellow-bellied sapsuckers in Wellfleet, and a vesper sparrow in Truro.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• The prairie is home to rare grassland bird species including bobolinks, meadowlarks, dickcissels and vesper sparrows — all species of special concern in Wisconsin; and upland sandpipers, a state threatened species.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2021
• Vespertilian refers to bats, which come out at dusk, when the evening star (Vesperus) appears and when monks say their evening prayers (vespers).
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2020
• Full of quotations from his previous works, and from the Russian Orthodox vespers, the score suggests a return to Russia and to the past.
  — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 22 May 2017
• The Everetts painted the exterior white with trim in teal, gray and vesper violet.
  — Patti Restivo, Howard County Times, 1 June 2018
• Throat and fecal swabs were collected from six different species of horseshoe and vesper bats.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2021
• Every evening at vespers, a different image of the incarnation is invoked.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 10 Dec. 2017
• Other highlights included a prairie warbler, a common yellowthroat, a rusty blackbird, and 3 yellow-bellied sapsuckers in Wellfleet, and a vesper sparrow in Truro.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• The prairie is home to rare grassland bird species including bobolinks, meadowlarks, dickcissels and vesper sparrows — all species of special concern in Wisconsin; and upland sandpipers, a state threatened species.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2021

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