How to Use magpie in a Sentence

magpie

1 of 2 noun

• Only the magpies know who caused this mess.
  — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
• 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
• Our magpie eyes will always be drawn to foolery and ephemera.
  — Giles Hattersley, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2021
• 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
• The six episodes of the new season are all about, well, the pursuit of magpies.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
• Birds such as crows, ravens, finches and magpies act as hosts for the disease.
  — Hannah Holzer, sacbee, 25 June 2018
• Pack your binoculars to look for bird species, like magpie, as well.
  — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 1 June 2026
• So now here’s Martha just seeing single magpies all over the place.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
• His rapid rise caught the magpie eyes of all of Europe’s grandest teams.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• Stephen Graham used the word 'magpie' the other day, which is so great.
  — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
• Bottlenose dolphins, magpies, and manta rays are among the few species that have passed that test.
  — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 9 Sep. 2019
• The Javan green magpies are one of the most endangered birds on earth.
  — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2018
• Then a hanging carcass should be protected from jays and magpies with cloth bags.
  — Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
• Sussie is a six-eyed supernatural magpie with three eyes on each side of their face.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
• 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
• About a magpie approach, all bells and whistles and sequins and taffeta.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Another search turned up a dead female wolf along with another dead magpie and a dead skunk.
  — oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2021
• Why all single magpies have to be men is unclear — the patriarchy in action.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
• Sparkly packages and shiny lights might attract you the way silver foil attracts a magpie.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 23 Dec. 2020
• But that’s exactly how some crows and magpies in Europe have started styling their nests.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• Especially if the tiger and the magpie have a name among the crew like Derpy and Sussie.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
• Researchers have reported that dolphins, one elephant and a magpie have also passed this test.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
• Wood frogs waited in tundra ponds, magpies in shrub thickets, red squirrels in boreal woods.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
• Over to the corvid family for some intelligence, and the raven gets the nod for its size advantage over the magpie and the jay.
  — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 16 June 2026
• 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
• Ravens and other members of the corvid family (crows, jays, and magpies) are known to be intelligent.
  — National Geographic, 6 June 2017

magpie

2 of 2 adjective

• A little magpie accessorizing feels right here, and why fret over cold toes?
  — Talia Abbas, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2025
• The chain-mail that has become synonymous with the brand also popped up, but was used in a more magpie way, paired with clashing chunky knits.
  — Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 12 Mar. 2026
• This mix-and-match approach played right into his own magpie sensibilities.
  — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 22 Dec. 2025
• The magpie Bayazid meets boys from a higher station who attend the nearby private school and live in a world almost as alien as a snowscape in a snow globe.
  — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
• Lloyd Webber’s score is a natural fit for this interpretation because of his magpie instincts.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
• And sharp, human materials, including barbed wire and knitting needles, have previously been found in magpie domes, the scientists noted.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 13 July 2023
• Though the idiosyncratic fashions in the photos are undeniably of their age, their magpie referentiality makes the pictures seem contemporary.
  — Crispin Long, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023