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单词 murmuration
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murmuration in British English

(ˌmɜːməˈreɪʃən)
noun
1.  literary
the act of murmuring or grumbling
a murmuration of approving nods
2.  literary
an instance of murmuring or grumbling
3. 
a collective term for starlings

Examples of 'murmuration' in a sentence
murmuration

New shoals arrived to join the murmuration forming high above our heads.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Known as a murmuration, it's one of nature's great spectacles.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The volume of nursery-squealing was like flocking starlings; it was a mass table-hop murmuration— with nothing to eat.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It's was like watching a murmuration of starlings — how do they not hit each other?
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The designer's imagination took to the skies too, with a murmuration of crystal birds animating skirts and bodices.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Tight as any herring shoal or starling murmuration, they darted this way and that before melting into the naked woods.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Every morning and evening the starlings perform a spectacular aerobatic display known as a murmuration, left.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
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