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.

  • The five much-anticipated Monica Lewinsky pics include: Monica lolling on grass in a red-checked gingham shirt (see: Marilyn Monroe), Monica wistful on the beach, Monica wrapped in an old American flag, Monica vamping with pink feather boa.

  • 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.

  • Birds of a feather flock together Better proceed with caution here, could be tricky.


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