How to Use parrot in a Sentence

parrot

1 of 2 noun
Definition of parrotnext
Synonyms for parrotnext
  • The first shot shows Hemsworth in the tub with a parrot perched on his forehead.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2022
  • In one, a child sat in the backseat, his pet parrot in a cage.
    — NBC News, 26 Feb. 2022
  • The little parrot was badly picked from all the stress.
    — cleveland, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The first parrot species known to open trash bins was the kea in New Zealand in a park setting.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 22 July 2021
  • Vibrant green wings falter as the parrot tries—and fails—to fly.
    — Ayla Gard, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
  • What’s bright orange with green on top and sounds like a parrot?
    — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Good Housekeeping, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The parrot was once hard to find even in national parks.
    — Cole Sinanian, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The owners were told to keep the calls short and end them if their parrot became distressed.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 4 May 2023
  • Drake Wright’s parrot, his eagle and even his dinosaur were the lucky ones.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 30 July 2022
  • The Shephards support these efforts to save the parrot.
    — Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The dogs came with them, but Hrechkina had to leave behind cats and a parrot.
    — NBC News, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Meep the Bird, a grey parrot, will be perched near the field, serving as the game day commentator.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 11 Jan. 2022
  • And seeing Lucky Yates as that parrot cracks me up every time.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Great shows are all over From a pair of Latin jazz icons to some movie-star parrots, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this weekend.
    — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • While ashore, the then Prince purchased an African Grey parrot named Charlotte.
    — Town & Country, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Even the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill swooped overhead.
    — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2023
  • She’s adopted more pets and keeps naming them Tyler (like her parrot and her snake), and has a side gig as a DJ.
    — Vulture, 13 Nov. 2022
  • We were soon joined by a Nancy and a Rhonda, who was wearing a parrot on her head.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Each bright orange and green label sports a parrot and the Jamaican flag, a salute to its place of origin.
    — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Look into the eye of a bison, a marlin, a parrot, an iguana.
    — Yael Martínez, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The parrot — found in the hills and rainforests of New Guinea — is rather large, measuring about one and a half feet (1 meter) from tail to beak.
    — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Residents showed up with kids, dogs and, in one case, a bright red parrot in a backpack.
    — Lauren Hepler, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Plus, the story of parrots taking video chatting to the next level and the science behind it.
    — CNN, 26 Apr. 2023
  • And a parrot makes news by taking flight with a GoPro camera.
    — CNN, 6 Feb. 2022
  • As the film depicts, Bittner was seeking meaning in his life, and the parrots were happy to oblige.
    — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Long before my first memory is the story of the monkey and the parrot who were madly in love.
    — Cindy Lamothe, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2021
  • At first, the parrots were confused — looking behind the tablet and trying to follow the other parrot through the screen.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • And sipping something crisp and light in the west-facing bar, is enhanced by the sun setting and the parrot fish playing in the ocean beneath you.
    — Tom Weijand, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The upstart candidate swooped in on its first try to beat last year’s victor, a flightless parrot called the kakapo, by about 3,000 votes.
    — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Cockatoos are a type of parrot, and like crows, they are known to have a formidable bird brain.
    — Darren Incorvaia, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2022
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parrot

2 of 2 verb
  • Some of the students were just parroting what the teacher said.
  • That’s a key talking point the Sacklers’ lawyers parrot over and over again.
    — Danny Strong, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2022
  • And, of course, so does Vladimir Putin, which is why Carlson (and others) parrot it.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Don't be afraid to parrot some of the words on the list of requirements back to them when possible.
    — Vicky Oliver, Fortune, 27 June 2017
  • Republicans have praised him, parroted him, promised to drain the swamp and pledged to build the wall.
    — Craig Gilbert, USA TODAY, 17 May 2018
  • We’re supposed to expose liars like Trump, not parrot them.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
  • First, Trump has been parroting far-right ideas about voter fraud since at least 2012.
    — Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 1 July 2017
  • Yellowtail snapper, parrot fish, a nurse shark, and giant pink conch all thrive in the area’s coral reef.
    — Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 7 Apr. 2018
  • In these comments, Kelly parroted one of the many Civil War myths: that the war was a dispute over states’s rights.
    — Adam Sanchez, Teen Vogue, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The Daily Show is supposed to cut through the media’s dishonesty, not parrot it.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The time Microsoft’s chatbot Tay was trained by Twitter users to parrot racist bilge.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 7 May 2018
  • For all of the hallmarks of Hardy's style that are easily parroted, there's only one Tom Hardy.
    — Trey Taylor, Esquire, 24 Aug. 2016
  • The question parroted fake news, spread around Brazil, that d’Ávila had splurged on baby products abroad.
    — Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 10 July 2019
  • But that’s not nearly as catchy a line to parrot, nor as comforting a story to tell ourselves.
    — Declan Leary, National Review, 19 July 2019
  • Some parrot species, in fact, can attain feats equal to those of nonhuman primates.
    — Onur Güntürkün, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020
  • In her own remarks, Ms. Escobar said the shooter parroted some of the rhetoric used by the president.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Teams were trying to parrot the Warriors, with all their sunshine and rainbows.
    — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Fans, some of them little kids parroting what their parents were saying, called him vile names.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Voss tells you to mirror your interlocutor’s body language, and to parrot her last few words as a question.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
  • His tweet parroted the tone and style of one from Trump earlier in the day, with a wholly different message.
    — Angela Hart, sacbee, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Both these points, while parroted by far-right media, have little basis in fact.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The gargantuan, ostrich-like moa stood as tall as 10 feet and the kakapo – a giant flightless parrot with the face of an owl –then roamed the island country in abundance.
    — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2019
  • If the Fed is simply parroting the moves of longer-term bonds, stocks have most likely already digested those moves.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Nobody ever learns by just having their own views parroted back at them.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Most of the media coverage of the deal has parroted Sidewalk’s claim to the entire Eastern Waterfront.
    — Molly Sauter, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Chinese state media has since been working overtime to parrot the Kremlin’s lies about the conflict.
    — Seth D. Kaplan, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Deep party ties mean that Chinese-language outlets parrot Kremlin talking points on the war in Ukraine.
    — Seth D. Kaplan, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Before the execution can occur, however, the king’s parrot finds a peach clinging to a fragment of a tablet.
    — Luc Sante, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • But when the easy money dries up, everyone parrots the Warren Buffett proverb about finding out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
    — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • More suspect than these series were the critics quick to parrot the networks’ marketing-speak.
    — Adam Wilson, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019

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