Crossword-Solution: SHRIKE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shrike | v. i. | Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SHRIKE | anagram | HIKERS, SHRIEK |
We have 30 clues for the answer “SHRIKE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Butcherbird or woodchat | 1 answer |
| songbird with a heavy hooked bill | 1 answer |
| lesser grey | 1 answer |
| great grey | 1 answer |
| The butcherbird. | 1 answer |
| Songbird with a hooked bill | 1 answer |
| Pulitzer prize play (with "The"). | 1 answer |
| Pulitzer bird of 1952 | 1 answer |
| Predatory songbird | 1 answer |
| Predatory avian | 1 answer |
| LOGGERHEAD bird | 1 answer |
| LOGGERHEAD | 1 answer |
| Hooked-bill bird | 1 answer |
| Hook-billed bird | 1 answer |
| Harsh-sounding bird that immobilizes its prey by impalement | 1 answer |
| Butcherbird | 1 answer |
| Bird with a shrill call | 1 answer |
| Bird that impales its prey on thorns | 1 answer |
| Bird in a play title. | 1 answer |
| 1952 Pulitzer play, with "The" | 1 answer |
| "The ___," Pulitzer prize play. | 1 answer |
| Screeching bird | 2 answers |
| Avian predator | 2 answers |
| Bird with a harsh cry | 3 answers |
| Rapacious bird | 3 answers |
| OSCINE bird | 7 answers |
| butcher bird | 10 answers |
| Predatory bird | 11 answers |
| Bird of Prey | 40 answers |
| Australian bird | 60 answers |
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Sentences with SHRIKE (5)
Sometimes it is a flycatcher, sometimes a greenfinch, or chaffinch, now and then a robin, in one place a shrike, perhaps another is a redstart.
The redstart yonder has given forth a few notes, the whitethroat flings himself into the air at short intervals and chatters, the shrike calls sharp and determined, faint but shrill calls descend from the swifts in the air.
WHIMPER OF SYMPATHY HAWK or shrike has done this deed Of downy feathers: rueful sight! Sweet sentimentalist, invite Your bosom’s Power to intercede.
But listen! what is that harsh creaking note? It is the cry of the Northern shrike, of whom tradition says that he catches little birds and impales them on sharp thorns.
Thousands of crows, rather smaller than our rook, keep up a constant cawing in these plantations; the curious wood-swallows (Artami), which closely resemble swallows in their habits and flight but differ much in form and structure, twitter from the tree-tops; while a lyre-tailed drongo-shrike, with brilliant black plumage and milk-white eyes, continually deceives the naturalist by the variety of its unmelodious notes.
Quotes with SHRIKE (3)
If the shrike did not eat the grasshoppers, then the grasshoppers would eat all the grass, and there would be none left for the deer... and the deer are food for the tiger. Life in the jungle is a giant spiderweb; if you touch one strand, it will vibrate at the other end. We cannot separate nature into good and bad, Rita. The gods do not will it so.
I turned back to the shrike, but the beak of his mask grazed up my neck and warm lips brushed my ear. Thrills coursed through me, but I didn't move until he started away. I caught his hand. "Wait." He'd felt right. I knew who I needed him to be, even if the way we'd danced was not how- That kind of passion he reserved for music. Not me. A cold breeze made me shiver as I tightened my grip on his. Stepped closer. Searched his eyes. His lips tilted up at one corner, like amuseme…
Once upon a time there was a poor child with no father and no mother everything was deadand no one was left in the whole world. Everything was deadand it went and searched day and night And since nobody was left on the earth it wanted to go up to the heavens and the moon was looking at it so friendly and when it finally got to the moon the moon was a piece of rotten wood and then it went to the sun and when it got there the sun was a wilted sunflower and when it got to the st…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1951–2017).