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Sentence Examples
| As April opens its world of promise and the sap rises in the tree, perhaps a phoebe, one of a returning phalanx, will stop to pause there. |
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| I'm thinking a phoebe, purple martin, starling fluttering up, a kingbird, I have no idea what's on the lowest wire, a nuthatch and a robin. |
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| A phoebe and a scissor-tail worked the fence, and Barn Swallows perched along the wires or flew overhead. |
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| The phoebe seemed our sole wild bird for the day but on the way back to the car, we chanced upon some yellow-bellied beauty of a warbler. |
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| I saw a couple of snipe fly over, and a phoebe or two hung around the edge of the cattails. |
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| A pair of bluebirds and a phoebe dallied across the street, and a hummingbird zipped across the western sky. |
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| When perched on shrubs, it often pumps its tail up and down like a phoebe. |
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| I noted the number of phoebe and cowbird eggs and nestlings at each visit. |
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| Their new home will have specially adapted rooms built to enable Phoebe to live as full a life as possible. |
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| Shaken up herself, Phoebe decided to make an opportune exit, allowing herself as well as Jess to gather their wits about them once again. |
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| Mr Sharp worked on steam ships HMS Juno and HMS Phoebe during his military service. Pipes in both warships were lagged with asbestos material. |
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| Just 220 km in diameter, Phoebe is in a very peculiar, retrograde orbit, and is very dark. |
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| Both Hyundai vehicles will be just the ticket for transporting the couple's two children, Austin and Phoebe. |
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| The funniest was of Phoebe, the young shepherdess who had fallen in love with Rosalind in her male guise. |
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| Upon their return, she was enrolled in the Phoebe Anne Thorne School, where she received a classical education and was tutored in French. |
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| We also spied plenty of tyrant flycatchers, including the aforementioned kingbird, Eastern Phoebe, Eastern Wood-pewee, and an empid. |
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| In the world of Phoebe, striving unbacked by integrity may be blameworthy, but dullness is unforgivable. |
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| Phoebe and Audrey were trapped within stereotypes of the flouncing young miss and the buxom slattern respectively. |
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| The composition of Phoebe should reflect the composition of the region of the solar nebula where it formed. |
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| The budding trees also offered Tufted Titmouse, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Eastern Phoebe, and Downy Woodpecker. |
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| Phoebe is honest and upright and true and I hope she hangs on to that because she's got this defiantly moral streak in her. |
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| Saturn's satellite Phoebe is too small for it to have separated into vertical stratifications when it formed. |
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| Phoebe made a beeline for Jess's bedroom, doing a low swan dive onto the bed. |
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| On the other hand, a young country cousin, Phoebe, arrives to lighten the gloom of the old house. |
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| Each image above shows the globe of Phoebe, centered at the given longitude. |
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| Phoebe had lost half her weight, had lice and sarcoptic mange. |
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| There was that innocently ignoble time Phoebe Buffay pretended she was a physician named Dr. Regina Phalange. |
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| As he beds a procession of desperate chorus girls and barmaids, his long-suffering wife, Phoebe, drinks herself into oblivion in their ramshackle bedsit. |
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| Jessie felt drained, the bickering with Phoebe had cut her to the bone. |
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| Designer Phoebe Philo presented a cool collection of wooly outerwear and unexpected proportions. |
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| In order to prevent the image from being blurry, Cassini actually had to rotate while the camera shutter was open in order to maintain her pointing at Phoebe. |
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| The little spirit began to sift through my memories of Phoebe again. |
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| Remember when Chandler was sexually attracted to sharks and Phoebe raised a litter of baby rats? |
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| So when he told me, 'You Can come to my show, but you Can't come to see Phoebe, and you Can't come to see RicCardo, that was odd. |
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| Finally, Holden sneaks into his parents' apartment to visit his kid sister Phoebe, who's about the only person he seems to be able to communicate with. |
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| Phoebe caught sight of her friend through the bar's plate glass window. |
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| Betty walked over to give Jess and Phoebe their next round of drinks. |
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| Smoke Screen by Phoebe Mitchell is a lovely blend of purples and mauves in a hypnotic pattern, and Vorticist. |
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| Nevertheless, Phoebe was armed with long guns which none of the other ships engaged had. |
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| Captain Henry Hope of the Endymion had fitted his ship with Phillip Broke's technology as Captain Hillyar had done on the Phoebe. |
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| Sweet-natured slackers Mike and Phoebe, played by Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, share a drug dependancy and matching tattoos. |
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| It was reported in the papers Charlie had a massive stress because they were just the backing singers and it was Phoebe and the Woo-Woo Girls. |
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| The opportunity, however, did not offer till next morning, for Phoebe did not come to bed till long after I was gone to sleep. |
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| According to Robert Graves's The Greek Myths, the Pelasgians believed the creator goddess Eurynome assigned Atlas and Phoebe to govern the moon. |
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| Phoebe lay down by me, and ask'd me archly if, now that I had seen the enemy, and fully considered him, I was still afraid of him? |
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| The National Team won 7-0 with hat-trick heroine Phoebe on top form and goals by Catherine Martin, Aya Bseisu and two from Amira Sowar. |
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| Suzy Barry, who is married to BBC business journalist Simon Jack, is the mother of his two granddaughters, Phoebe and Florence Ingleby. |
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| Performers include Beth Wood, above, Steel Wool, Walker T Ryan, Phoebe Blume, Cross Current, Two Doors Down and Jeremy and Mina Wegner. |
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| Furthermore, Captain Hillyar had used Phillip Broke's methods of artillery on Phoebe and Cherub with tangent and dispart sights. |
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| Phoebe also started keeping a life list, as Elisabeth surely did. |
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| In 1834 Locke married Phoebe McCreery, with whom he adopted a child. |
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| The first twelve Titans comprised the females Mnemosyne, Tethys, Theia, Phoebe, Rhea, and Themis and the males Oceanus, Hyperion, Coeus, Cronus, Crius, and Iapetus. |
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| As a team of lawyers, therapists and women from a safe house help Helen and Phoebe find hope and healing, a sociopath lurks, waiting for his moment to strike. |
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| Paul and Phoebe did not walk on the red carpet together but the couple cozied up inside the event and enjoyed a double date night with the newlyweds. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| In spite of herself, phoebe felt a trifle chilled by their lack of enthusiasm. |
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| Her sister phoebe, heart-broken by her loss, followed soon after. |
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| A phoebe soon built in my shed, and a robin for protection in a pine which grew against the house. |
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| Times before had he said them before Phoebe Hart, and she had passed them by with no rebuke. |
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| Phoebe, looking at her attentively, despaired of getting any nearer the truth from any of them. |
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| Unflinchingly he stands the inquisitorial glance, and for the time Phoebe is foiled. |
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| Lady Ella had to interfere to prevent the monopolization of this centre by Phoebe and Daphne for their home work. |
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| Grant did not even look at Phoebe, but his purpose seemed to waver in spite of himself. |
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| Phoebe turned away with a little toss of her head, and he turned, too, breaking a sprig of southernwood. |
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| I was commencin' to feel the shrivel, so it's California for Phoebe and me. |
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| Granny Phoebe was the midwife at our plantashun and she birthed all the babies. |
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| She was known among the Greeks as Diana or Phoebe, and was honored as a triform goddess. |
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| Phoebe, heavy-eyed and pale from wakefulness and worry, came then, and called them in to breakfast. |
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| Phoebe in her earnestness forgot to keep within the limitations of their dialect. |
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| All of which might have intimidated the gentle Phoebe, but did not discompose her father. |
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| Phoebe Saw, however, that their growth must have been checked by a degree of careful labor, bestowed daily and systematically on the garden. |
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| After arranging matters to her satisfaction, Phoebe emerged from her chamber, with a purpose to descend again into the garden. |
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| I think that quite the most touching sight in the Gardens is the two tombstones of Walter Stephen Matthews and Phoebe Phelps. |
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| He gripped her more firmly, and turned his head slightly toward Phoebe. |
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| To Hepzibah's blunt observation, therefore, Phoebe replied as frankly, and more cheerfully. |
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| The town air, Cousin Phoebe, does not agree with your good, wholesome country habits. |
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| Phoebe stood up, leaning hard upon the table with both hands. |
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| Phoebe wondered whose care and toil it could have been that had planted these vegetables, and kept the soil so clean and orderly. |
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| Therefore, it was well that Phoebe so often chose sad themes, and not amiss that they ceased to be so sad while she was singing them. |
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| Then as Phoebe continued to gaze at him, without answering his mother's message, he took his departure. |
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| On raising her eyes, Phoebe was startled by the change in Judge Pyncheon's face. |
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| Hepzibah knew enough to enable her to appreciate the circumstances which made it desirable for Phoebe to establish herself in another home. |
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| She therefore turned to Phoebe, and resigned the task into the young girl's hands. |
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| Phoebe and the fire that boiled the teakettle were equally bright, cheerful, and efficient, in their respective offices. |
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| Phoebe bade it be a good old chicken during her absence, and promised to bring it a little bag of buckwheat. |
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| Phoebe loved no riddles, and would have been glad to escape the perplexity of this one. |
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| It is gone off this weary old world, and we may be as light-hearted as little Phoebe herself. |
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| Again, while lighting the lamp in the kitchen, Phoebe fancied that her cousin spoke to her. |
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| Phoebe, it is probable, had but a very imperfect comprehension of the character over which she had thrown so beneficent a spell. |
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| Phoebe soon saw it likewise, and gave him the sort of confidence which such a certainty inspires. |
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| Carter joined forces in the 1920s with designers Harold and Phoebe Stabler and potters John and Truda Adams to form Carter Stabler Adams. |
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| No sooner had he disappeared than Hepzibah grew deadly white, and, staggering towards Phoebe, let her head fall on the young girl's shoulder. |
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| Is it possible that you are Phoebe Pyncheon, only child of my dear cousin and classmate, Arthur? |
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| Phoebe recognized it as the same which had passed upward, as through her dream, in the night-time. |
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| Phoebe shook out her blonde hair, letting it fall about her shoulders. |
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| Even in her agitation, Phoebe could not help remarking the calmness of Holgrave's demeanor. |
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| The old gentlewoman stole behind Phoebe, and peeped from the passageway into the shop, to note how she would manage her undertaking. |
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| The artist, in a desultory manner, had imparted to Phoebe something of his history. |
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| But as it existed now, the effect was painful and made Phoebe droop her eyes. |
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| Of course, Phoebe was far too sensible a girl to entertain this idea in any other way than as matter for a smile. |
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| Phoebe reached up, and caught the hands in a reassuring clasp. |
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| Enceladus, Titan, Dione, Mimas, Rhea, Tethys, Iapetus, Hyperion and Phoebe were just some of Saturn's known moons. |
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| Little Phoebe was one of those persons who possess, as their exclusive patrimony, the gift of practical arrangement. |
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| She bade Phoebe step into one of the tall chairs, and inspect the ancient map of the Pyncheon territory at the eastward. |
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| When Phoebe broke into a peal of merry laughter at what she read, he would now and then laugh for sympathy, but oftener respond with a troubled, questioning look. |
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| Soon, with a deep sigh, she put aside the savory volume, and inquired of Phoebe whether old Speckle, as she called one of the hens, had laid an egg the preceding day. |
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| But Phoebe, in order to keep the universe in its old place, was fain to smother, in some degree, her own intuitions as to Judge Pyncheon's character. |
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| So long as Phoebe sang, she might stray at her own will about the house. |
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| At one of these moments of less torpid, yet still imperfect animation, Phoebe became convinced of what she had at first rejected as too extravagant and startling an idea. |
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| He held a hoe in his hand, and, while Phoebe was gone in quest of the crumbs, had begun to busy himself with drawing up fresh earth about the roots of the tomatoes. |
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| After partly closing the door, the child turned back, and mumbled something to Phoebe, which, as the whale was but half disposed of, she could not perfectly understand. |
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| By the involuntary effect of a genial temperament, Phoebe soon grew to be absolutely essential to the daily comfort, if not the daily life, of her two forlorn companions. |
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| At the first glance, Phoebe saw an elderly personage, in an old-fashioned dressing-gown of faded damask, and wearing his gray or almost white hair of an unusual length. |
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| Giving it to Phoebe, she watched her features narrowly, and with a certain jealousy as to the mode in which the girl would show herself affected by the picture. |
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| Totally paralyzed, with completely dislocated vertebrae and screaming in pain, Phoebe responded within a few days to a combination of acupuncture and homeopathy. |
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| Fancying, however, that it might be for his benefit occasionally to diversify the scene, Phoebe sometimes suggested that he should look out upon the life of the street. |
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| Phoebe, to whom all extravagance was a horror, burst into sobs and tears. |
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| Always, in his interviews with Phoebe, the artist made especial inquiry as to the welfare of Clifford, whom, except at the Sunday festival, he seldom saw. |
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| At any rate, Phoebe soon felt that, if not the profound insight of a seer, yet a more than feminine delicacy of appreciation, was making her heart the subject of its regard. |
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| With a bow to Hepzibah, and a degree of paternal benevolence in his parting nod to Phoebe, the Judge left the shop, and went smiling along the street. |
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