How to Use grosbeak in a Sentence

grosbeak

noun

• There’s also the question as to what sort of future the grosbeak might have.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 9 Oct. 2020
• Both blue grosbeaks and indigo buntings sang from the tops of some pines.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 6 June 2018
• At the Honey Pot in Hadley, five blue grosbeaks abd a dickcissel.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
• Mice and voles were often on the menu, as were birds ranging from the tiny Wilson’s warbler to the much larger black-headed grosbeak.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
• Birds such as tanagers, thrush, orioles, grosbeaks, vireos, wrens, and buntings.
  — cleveland.com, 22 May 2017
• The last time Powdermill saw a gynandromorph was in 2005, when the team found a grosbeak that looked very similar to this one.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2020
• Streams whoosh, swollen with winter rains, and birds — robins, sparrows, grosbeaks, woodpeckers and hawks — trill and chatter.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2020
• Despite the bird's rare bona fides, however, the grosbeak is perfectly healthy.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2020
• Several species are shifting north, including the blue grosbeak and fish crow.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2021
• Many birds – waxwings, grosbeaks, chickadees and robins – love fruit, which can be put out on elevated platform feeders.
  — oregonlive, 29 Oct. 2019
• Moments later the first black-headed grosbeak of the season landed at the feeder, scaring away the others as a flurry of feathers blew seeds into a cloud.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2022
• Pairs of red crossbills were reported in Harwich and Wellfleet, and an unprecedented June record of evening grosbeak was photographed at a feeder in Wellfleet.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2019
• 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
• Other species confirmed for the first time in this edition of the atlas include Mississippi kite, blue grosbeak and canvasback.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2018
• The perch the blue grosbeak occupied a moment earlier was now taken by a singing scarlet tanager.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 May 2018
• Rose-breasted grosbeaks eat the seeds, while cedar waxwings munch on the flowers in early spring.
  — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2026
• Cardinals, grosbeaks, bobwhites, and other wildlife eat redbud seeds.
  — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 July 2025
• The photo today is of a blue grosbeak nest with a cowbird egg.
  — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024