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43 examples of Canary in a sentence

It's being produced in large amounts, 150 to 180 metric tons per year in the Canary Islands in Peru, and it's big business.
In 1962, with Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," I think for people like me in the world of the making of things, the canary in the mine wasn't singing.
It's like the canary in the coalmine.
I select this one because it was 1973, and it was a master plan for one of the Canary Islands.
CA: But there is a concern that the fake news is associated with tyrannical regimes, and when you see an uprise in fake news that is a canary in the coal mine that there may be dark times coming.
I was in my late 40s, and I started tweeting like a canary in a birdcage and assuming that, you know, people who peered into my world would admire it for the miracle I believed it to be.
So when giant clams start to disappear from coral reefs, their absence can serve as an alarm bell for scientists to start paying attention, similar to the canary in a coal mine.
And in this massive, global, online experiment that we are all living through, we in Britain are the canary.
And they had a canary hung inside the thing to make sure the Germans weren't going to use gas.
But those of us living in environmental justice communities are the canary in the coal mine.
Ice is the canary in the global coal mine.
The other great influence is the mine's canary.
In coal mines, this canary was supposed to be close to the miners.
So this canary was a living alarm, and a very efficient one.
And I tried to design a kind of canary.
In Tweety's S.O.S, Sylvester goes from picking garbage cans to being a stowaway on a cruise ship that happens to carry a certain canary bird-and Granny, his owner.
But two things work against Sylvester: Granny is vehemently protecting the canary, and Sylvester easily gets seasick (we don't see him throwing up, but with his green face, they make it perfectly clear that he was doing just that!).
But in "Canary Row", he suffers at the hands of Tweety, Granny, and even the desk clerk.
Very good "Old Dark House" type mystery, with a lot of similarities to The Cat and the Canary, with the young woman inheriting everything while all other members are shut out.
Once ensconced in the house he begins to resemble Bob Hope in The Cat And The Canary with the three sisters blending into Gale Sondergaard.
And Spain may be the proverbial canary in a coalmine.
The Brexit vote is a canary in the coal mine for Europe’s economic policy makers.
Similarly, the shark-diving industry has brought in an estimated $110 million annually to Thailand, $22 million to the Canary Islands, and a massive $800 million to the Bahamas over the last 20 years.
And yet it is also the proverbial canary in the coalmine, signaling a broad populist/nationalist backlash – at least in advanced economies – against globalization, free trade, offshoring, labor migration, market-oriented policies, supranational authorities, and even technological change.
In 2014, Germany’s humanitarian team to deliver assistance to Ebola-stricken Liberia was stranded in the Canary Islands.
Syria is the canary in the coalmine.
New Orleans is America’s canary in the mineshaft.
And, if one is worried that the British people might change their minds, well, the princes of Wall Street or the barons of Canary Wharf or US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner would certainly be willing to sell derivatives contracts to protect Britain against exchange-rate risk for the next several years.
The common currency is the canary in the mine of the global exchange-rate system.
There is no likelihood of reforms of Wall Street and Canary Wharf aimed at diminishing the likelihood and severity of any future financial panic, and no likelihood of government intervention to restore the normal flow of risky finance through the banking system.