Example sentences for: whiskers

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

  • A catfish has barbels on its head, around the mouth, that slightly resemble a cat's whiskers.

  • The cat's whiskers is a term possibly first used in 1927, by Dorothy L. Sayers in her novel Unnatural Death .

  • Winnie possibly thought his cat suit was the cat's whiskers , i.e., good, satisfactory, perfect, ideal for the task.

  • friend not seen for years: gray whiskers around the boyish smile

  • Similar to the cat's whiskers is the cat's pyjamas meaning anything that is very good, attractive; American in origin from around 1920, it had become Briticized by 1923.


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