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Use "whippoorwills" in a sentence
"Some other birds on the declining list are Chuck-wills-widows (aka whippoorwills) and nighthawks."
"One comes from some kind of bird squawking; another I happen to know is a night heron looking for a supper along the water's edge; then I suppose coons squabble when they meet, trailing over half sunken logs; a bobcat calls to its mate; the owls tune up; chuckwillswidows, the same birds that we call whippoorwills up North, you know, keep a whooping all the time; and there are all sorts of other noises that might stand for anything."
"She called out to him several times but there was no sound except for the whippoorwills with their evening song."