Example sentences for: fowl

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

  • While Soutine--unlike Chagall, to whom he is sometimes compared--did not paint stereotypically Jewish subjects, he may have been alluding, with those dangling fowl, to a Yom Kippur rite in which a slaughtered chicken was whirled around a rabbi's head in a ritual of absolution.

  • The problem here is that this is neither fish nor fowl.

  • Mightn't the eviscerated cows and the fowl in the throes of death be experienced as modernist mementi mori, fetishistic reminders of the darkest, cruelest, and most primitive human instincts?

  • Think what the clever spoonerist can do with “the painting is foul art, ” or perhaps even better, fowl art . Could one resist tampering if Joyce had written “She was a bit of awful lass, ” or if Shakespeare had penned “Thy chatter is but showful wit!

  • Park commissioner Henry Stern--himself a bit of a loon--admits that until autopsies are performed, they can't be certain of the cause of death, but everyone agrees that fowl play is likely.


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