Example sentences for: quill

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

  • If we owned a green eyeshade, quill pen, and cuff-protectors, we could tell you, with some sentiment, that we are hanging them up.

  • Steiner opens the collection with "The Uncommon Reader," a tour-de-force meditation on Jean-Siméon Chardin's painting Le Philosophe lisant , which becomes, through attentive reading of details--"his folio, his hourglass, his incised medallions, his ready quill"--an emblem for the vanishing culture of book and reader.

  • When we imagine the life of the poet laureate, we see--through a dreamlike fog of sherry--a berobed figure lounging on a waterlily, floating gently through an Arcadian landscape, quill pen in hand but used more as a prop than for the actual production of poetry.

  • Washington was not a book writer, or any kind of writer at all, professionally speaking, but took quill in hand merely to address particular situations as they arose.

  • “ Clean as a quill,” came the reply.


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