CANARY


Meaning of CANARY in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But canaries are idiots of smell and wizards of hearing and love.

Glancing up, I saw a beautiful yellow bird perched on a telegraph wire, looking like a prize long-tailed canary .

He keeps canaries, diamond doves and a pair of quails.

Here, for instance, were hand-sized wolves, with the wings of canaries.

In the war my Grannie's canaries were blown through the window and on to the street.

Porches are enclosed with metal bars, like canary cages.

When the canaries stopped singing, the miners knew it was time to get out of there.

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