How to Use merlin in a Sentence

merlin

noun

• Birders should also expect to see arriving winter raptors like ferruginous hawks, sharp-shinned hawks and merlin.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2019-09-19
• Ruth coveted Merlin’s experience and wished to signal her righteous alignment.
  — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
• There were reports of 120 white-winged scoters, five Western sandpipers, three American golden-plovers, three black skimmers, and three merlins.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2019-09-23
• Emperors flew eagles and vultures; kings flew gyrfalcons; and ladies flew merlins, a species favored by Mary, Queen of Scots, in the 16th century.
  — Kate Donnelly, Travel + Leisure, 2020-04-22
• It’s beautifully restored, with its bomb doors hanging wide open and its large propellers, attached to Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, reaching forward.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
• One has seen hummingbirds attempting to drive off migrating bald eagles at Hawk Ridge in Duluth in the fall and has photos of a hummingbird attacking a perched merlin.
  — Val Cunningham Contributing Writer, Star Tribune, 2020-11-03
• The occasion was the world premiere of Merlin, a two-part NBC miniseries starring Sam Neill and Isabella Rossellini.
  — Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
• Merlin Labs, for example, is developing natural-language-processing algorithms to communicate with air traffic control.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2025
• There’s also a company called Merlin Global Revenue Solutions, where records indicate Tonmoy Sharma is a director.
  — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 22 Aug. 2025
• This involves igniting the rocket's nine Merlin engines while the vehicle is traveling faster than the speed of sound through the upper atmosphere, with external temperatures exceeding 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
  — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
• While initially envisioned as a 30-minute short, Vengeance Most Fowl grew bigger and bigger as Park and his directing partner, Merlin Crossingham, developed the story, leading to Wallace & Gromit’s first 100% score for feature-length stories.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• The Job Management Agent (JMA), meanwhile, handles scheduling and execution across LLNL’s supercomputers, using tools like the Flux scheduler and the Merlin workflow system.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2025