starling in English

noun
1
a gregarious Old World songbird with a straight bill, typically with dark lustrous or iridescent plumage but sometimes brightly colored.
Blackbirds, starlings , green finches, great tits, robins, collared doves and dunnocks are all included in Cumbria's top ten.
2
a wooden pile erected with others around or just upstream of a bridge or pier to protect it from the current or floating objects.
The starling is that portion of the pier which faces the direction of the stream, and acts like the cutwater of a ship.

Use "starling" in a sentence

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1. Clarice Starling: They killed him.

2. Clarice Starling: Early, still dark.

3. Have you accepted Jesus, Agent Starling?

4. Clarice Starling: And they were screaming.

5. He's a zoning commissioner for Starling City.

6. Clarice Starling: I heard a strange noise.

7. Clarice Starling : No. No, you ate yours.

8. It's an oil company based in Starling City.

9. That is rather slippery of you, Agent Starling.

10. It looks like Starling City has a guardian angel.

11. 20 Clarice Starling : Do right, and you will live through this.

12. Clarice Starling: And one morning, I just ran away.

13. His ship filed a loading manifest at Starling City docks.

14. The Starling City police force is standing with you on this one.

15. The girl that you met in Starling City. The computer-er, right?

16. 19 Clarice Starling : Do right and you'll live through this.

17. Agent Starling(Sentencedict.com), how did you track Buffalo Bill here?

18. He came back to Starling to collect on some old debts.

19. Here rests a bird called Starling, A foolish little Darling.

20. Last night he arrived in Starling City to sell the guns.

21. The little Auk is a small seabird, the size of a starling

22. I need you to search for any indication Armitage is in Starling.

23. Oh, Agent Starling, you think you can dissect me with this blunt little tool?

24. The route ends at a private landing strip just outside Starling City.

25. One of the main starling roosts is on top of the Town Hall.

26. Lies are what drove Thea away from Starling City in the first place.

27. A few months ago, I made a promise to help revitalize Starling City.

28. Starling City is expected to be host of this year's Festival of Lights exhibition.

29. The Arrow of Starling City formerly known as The Hood, has been unmasked as billionaire Robert Queen.

30. I'll bet Carter doesn't know where to find the best burger joint in Starling City.

31. I told you, I did not come back to Starling City to be the Vigilante.

32. Authorities issued an immediate lockdown at the Starling County Institute for Mental Health following the breakout.

33. They are morphologically quite similar too—a partly albinistic specimen of a mimid, mislabelled as to suggest an Old World origin, was for many decades believed to represent an extinct starling (see Rodrigues starling for details).

34. Starling (noun) A California fish, the rock trout, ver=161206, especially, ver=161216, the Boregat or bodieron.

35. 21 The species included the wren, nuthatch, starling and also waterbirds such as the oystercatcher, curlew and redshank.

36. Put it in cash in my vault at Starling National, and ask him to do it tonight.

37. "We all want flood insurance to continue to be widely available and competitively priced beyond 20" says Starling. Sentencedict.com

38. It reports on comparative morphometric and cytokinetic studies of intestinal growth in Altricial European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and …

39. Last time the Doll Maker was active in Starling City, he ramped up to one kill every three days.

40. Seven hundred reports of sightings were phoned in to the Starling Squad, to be pinpointed on a map of Leicestershire.

41. American fighters Taylor Starling and Charisa Sigala received a standing ovation at the Bare knuckle Fighting Championship: KnuckleMania event Friday in Florida.

42. Birdies The Birdies smoking slippers come in two different silhouettes: The Starling, which has a more rectangular toe and cut, and The Heron, which has …

43. The history of Ohio Bryology probably began with William Starling Sullivant, considered by some to be the “father” of American Bryology (Snider and Andreas, 1996)

44. Between 1967 and [[1996]] Starling utilized and exploited the ''Aeon'' to the extent of his abilities, developing a technologically-based corporate empire – [[Chronowerx Industries]] – which spanned the planet.

45. Bowerbirds are stout, typically heavy-billed, and strong-footed songbirds that range from the size of a Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris to that of a small slim Jackdaw Corvus monedula.

46. Baptizing is an album by the progressive bluegrass Maryland band The Seldom Scene. It is marked as a last album for John Starling and arrival of new singer/guitarist Phil Rosenthal

47. Unfortunately, 29th century technology came to Starling's aid once again as his assistant, [[Dunbar]], used the ''Aeon'' in conjunction with [[SATCOM 47|a Chronowerx satellite]] to transport Starling back into his office.