Example sentences for: fowl

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

  • 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.

  • There was a tear in William Mack Lee's voice, but in his eye I fancied that I saw the happy light that always dances in the eyes of his race at the thought of a fowl for cooking.

  • ' A popular alcoholic beverage, chicha , figures in the saying, Ne chicha ni limonada `neither fish nor fowl.

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

  • In his “Feather Report” of 27 October 1990, in The Times , Simon Barnes lists the following nicknames for the nightjar: fernowl, fen owl, jar-owl, churn-owl, goat-owl, goatsucker, nighthawk, dorhawk, moth hawk, wheelbird, puck bird, litch fowl , and gabble ratch , the last having its origins in the Norse meaning `corpse hound,' (similar to litch fowl , which means `corpse fowl').


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