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How to use canary in a sentence

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Like a canary in a coal mine, the biochip will detect hazards, including biochemical threats.
The offences related to nine puppies, a kitten, a hamster, mice, a rat, a canary and a bearded dragon lizard.
Thus in many ways Japan has become the canary in the coal mine for the developed world, as witness Minamata disease.
A turquoise bracelet, a tropical-fish tank, a vest beaded with Elvis Presley's visage, canary eyes and sequin lips.
They are most common in wet, shrubby, lowland thickets, often frequenting introduced plants such as Scots broom and reed canary grass.
Tana had a canary yellow 1971 Triumph Spitfire, gleaming with chrome and carnauba wax.
This could refer to any of the passerines, though most likely a canary or similar caged exotic.
Mr Read, of New Farm, has planted trial crops of miscantus and canary grass with the aim of one day growing them on a commercial scale.
When the clematis and roses get their heads down for autumn, canary creepers and morning glory are just putting their boots on.
I've been showing it to customers and some of them definitely identified it as a canary.
A caged canary at a craft shop in rural England had the whole whistle down pat.
She wore a canary yellow chinchilla clutch coat and pristine, satin, white gloves up to her elbows.
He was carrying a hemp messenger bag plastered with patches, and his combat boots were splattered with canary yellow paint.
The canary creeper is an annual or perennial climber with 5-lobed, light to grayish green leaves.
The canary creeper has five-lobed leaves and bird-like flowers, and a style of growth that separates it from the typical tropaeolums.
The disappearing logo might just be the canary in the coal mine signifying the dematerialization of music.
They said the coastal state was the canary in the coal mine, a warning of what would happen to the rest of the country if he had his way.
Shakespeare refers to canary wine in Twelfth Night and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
He then disappeared, and presently entered with two earthen flagons, one filled with canary wine, the other with brandy.
The yellow colour may justify the name, for not only is the canary-bird yellow, but canary wine is of a golden hue.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was a trying pair of seconds, through which the duke's seed-cake cheeped like a canary.
Their songs were low and musical, not unlike the song of the canary, though there were no cadenzas or fioritura passages.
I dont want to be groundsel, I dont want to be pecked at, and I dont want to become your canary.
He ties the canary creeper up, and he sees to his cabbages, upon a Sunday morning.
Wandering Jew will also thrive, and the canary creeper grows as well in town as in the country.
The canary creeper is another plant, which is so airy and graceful that one never seems to tire of it.
The canary and the house sparrow are the most familiar examples of this family.
I have a canary, and my brother and I had a pair of squirrels, but one died.
An old toll-keeper, in stirlingshire, had a favourite cat and a pet canary at the same time.
The yellow warbler, sometimes called the wild canary, flits through bush and tree and trills its gay notes in town and country.
Say, Nebrasky, who have yu' offered your canary to the schoolmarm said you mustn't give her?
Its food is canary seed, millet, poppy seed, and bruised hemp seed.
The canary comes from the Canary Islands, but its name is good Latin.
I haven't had a canary since I was a girl in my father's house.
A species of canary grass is also to be seen on sandy coasts.
If not a chimp he had hoped for a parrot or at least a canary.
Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green.
Georgiana would chatter nonsense to her canary bird by the hour, and take no notice of me.
This bird will pair with the canary, siskin, linnet, or goldfinch.
Or do you look forward to spinsterhood in a cottage with a canary?
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