How to Use thrush in a Sentence
thrush
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Rocky's own name for himself is a type of thrush called a solitaire bird slowed down.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2026
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Here are some natural remedies that may be used to treat thrush.
—Nicole Harris, Parents, 28 June 2023
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Sightings of seagulls have been made as well as thrushes and robins.
—Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2023
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But perhaps the thrush has no memory of this.
—María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Their berries are an important food source for thrushes, finches, robins, and waxwings during fall and winter months.
—Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2026
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His London thrush is exceptional, but the outtakes on that scene are so funny.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 June 2026
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Wood thrushes dueled with their melodious birdsong across the bog, sounding like an entire bird choir.
—Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
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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
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That includes a bird-calling scene that sees the duo strolling through the forest and offering up their own spin on the calls of thrushes and larks.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 June 2026
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Your persistent visitor is a hermit thrush.
—Joan Morris, Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2025
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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
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Their nutrient-rich berries are favorites for fruit-eating birds, including robins, thrushes, waxwings, and orioles.
—Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2026
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At the height of autumn, the leaves of the aspen trees drop to the ground like gold coins and the timber resounds with the song of the hermit thrush, the sweetest bird in the west.
—New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
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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
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Watch for visiting warblers, catbirds, mockingbirds, thrushes and more.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2025
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Warblers, thrushes, tanagers, and orioles arrive in quick succession.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2026
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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
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Archaeologists also found that thrushes' skeletons were missing large, meatier bones like femurs and humeri.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2025
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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
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Betuel suggests planting locally native plants that produce fruit and berries, which will also attract other thrushes, waxwings, and tanagers, among others.
—Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Jan. 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In North Scituate, a rufous hummingbird and a Bicknell’s thrush.
—Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2022
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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
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