Example sentences for: fowl

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

  • Noah Meyerson: 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').

  • 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.

  • The old West Sussex tendency is to add an extra syllable to monosyllabic words, so cow becomes cayoo, or fowl is pronounced fewoll.


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