Canary

//kəˈnɛəɹi//

"Canary" in a Sentence (23 examples)

A canary is a small bird, and people sometimes keep it as a pet.

I had scarcely opened the cage when the canary flew out.

My canary was killed by a cat.

He looks like a cat that ate the canary.

The world's largest telescope is in the Canary Islands.

They are no more alike than a cow and a canary.

I'm tired of everything; I would like nothing more than to be in the Canary Islands.

This is Tom's canary.

I still have many friends from the Canary Islands.

That photograph makes you look like the cat that ate the canary.

The tendency in these types of situations (as far as I can see) is that because I don't think the act itself is illegal, the police will go through your vehicle systematically loking^([sic]) for anything wrong with it, to slap a canary on it (that's slang for an unroadworthy sticker) or present you with some other fine.

Yes, if the exhaust is to noisey^([sic]) they can slap a yellow canary on it, but the[n] who cares you got rid of it.

You don't have to carry a spare wheel for a car to be roadworthy, and if you *do* carry one, it doesn't have to be in a roadworthy condition *unless* you fit it [to] the car and drive on it. / If it's not and you get pinched, expect a canary...

Ile to my honeſt knight ſir Iohn Falſtaffe, / And drinke Canary with him.

And though the annals of the period do not show us that there was less ale drawn, or less canary called for; men got dry with the heat of polemical discussion, and drunk with a text, not the fag end of a ballad, in their mouths; and people made a sort of morality of straight hair, long faces, and sad-coloured garments.

Or maybe you'd accept iv a couple o' bottles of claret or canaries?

In an other corner, Mistris Minx, a marchants wife, that will eate no cherries, forsooth, but when they are at twentie shillings a pound, that lookes as simperingly as if she were besmeard, and iets it as gingerly as if she were dancing the canaries, […]

[…] I haue ſeen a medicine / That's able to breath life into a ſtone, / Quicken a rocke, and make you dance Canari / With ſprightly fire and motion, […]

She had previously been sacked ... for "selling canaries" - a practice in which drivers resell used tickets to passengers and keep the fare for themselves.

but to jig off a tune at / the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet,

Canary callable bonds are a type of step-up bond that is a hybrid structure, having elements of both Bermudan and European calls.

The canary bond is unique in that it is callable during the period before the security converts to a noncallable or bullet structure; the canary callable coupon can possess a step-up feature.

A (receiver) Canary swaption has two expiry dates 0 < θ₁ < θ₂ ≤ t₀ and involved two swaps Sⁱ (i = 1, 2) with cash -flows (t_(i,j), c_(i,j)) (1 ≤ j ≤ nᵢ).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.