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How to use catbird in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word catbird? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Estimating the cost of accepting a cowbird egg was done by experimentally placing newly hatched cowbird chicks into catbird nests.
In fact, everything about the insurance company suggests they know they're in the catbird seat.
Sooner or later the customer will need brakes or shocks or a major service and suddenly the dealer is in the catbird seat.
Magazines have weathered the on-line storm, as it were, and are back in the catbird seat.
For several years, design professionals sat in the catbird seat, able to parlay personnel shortages in a boom market into significant pay and benefit packages.
You might have thought that with Borders shutting down, Barnes and Noble would be sitting in the catbird seat.
Because catbirds inhabit such dense shrubby areas and are more likely heard than seen, I am often surprised by how many people tell me that their favorite bird is the catbird.
The catbird seat can't remain vacant, but who is there to fill it?
They enjoy being in the catbird seat, perched at a high elevation, with a commanding view of a vast expanse of open air, high above the landmass below.
The police are in the catbird seat, but do not seem to realize it.
Wordsters of etymological persuasion also hope to be sitting in the catbird seat when it comes to locating the origins of colorful phrases.
With a big victory in the primary he was sitting in the catbird seat.
We have so much confidence in Catbird that we do all data transfer over the network, even where we used to use sneakernet.
We present the first quantitative assessment of winter site fidelity for House Wren, Gray Catbird, and Orange-crowned Warbler.
Examples from Classical Literature
There is pride in the song of the tanager, and vanity in that of the catbird.
Though she does not mew and scream as did the catbird, she is just as anxious, you may be sure.
Then a catbird and a brown thrush sang against a grosbeak and a hermit thrush.
Equally real was the catbird on the hedge as we came down toward the station.
Then Mr. catbird came out of the bush and apologized like the gentleman he was.
If not, the first catbird he meets is the cleverest of the two.
Like many other birds, the catbird is kind to others in trouble.
It was this spring, too, that he became acquainted with the catbird.
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