Example sentences for: quail

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

  • They include Clients Consulting a Sorceress and Strolling Musicians, vivid little friezes of an octopus, a cat catching a quail, and the huge exciting mural of Alexander driving Darius of Persia from the battlefield at Issus in 333 b.c.

  • The quail is a gamebird, as is the partridge .

  • Underplayed : A California scientist announced that he has made chickens behave like quails by replacing their embryonic brain cells with quail brain cells.

  • In contemporary England, quail has shifted to bird; since 1860, quail in America has continued to mean a sexually attractive girl.

  • The quail is so called not because it is timid but because the call of the female is a double note queep, queep .


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