Words similar to feather

Example sentences for: feather

How can you use “feather” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

..of small homely feather singing shyly out of obscurity” filling.
Knocked for a feather meaning `greatly surprised' could be a humorous blend of knocked for a loop and knocked over with a feather , just as fleazy is perhaps a blend of flea and sleazy . To go on a bilge or drinking spree used by three Northern informants is perhaps an alteration of to go on a binge , or perhaps a punning alteration, or perhaps a pronunciation variant, with l substituted for n , as in chimney/chimley . For lack of evidence, all of these derivations are essentially guesses.
Our popular image of the North American Indian is conditioned by Hollywood’s stereotype — feather headdress, necklace of scalps, and whooping war dances around the campfire — which in fact derived from the prairie tribes, or Plains Indians, as they are known to American anthropologists.
As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.
A similar little/ great, low/high distinction--that is, birds that are not exactly of a feather.