FEATHER in a Sentence
Learn FEATHER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
135 example sentences for FEATHER, such as:
1. The bird ruffled up its feathers.
2. Birds of a feather flock together.
3. The bird fluffed out its feathers.
4. The male has beautiful tail feathers.
5. This final feather broke the camel's back.
2. Birds of a feather flock together.
3. The bird fluffed out its feathers.
4. The male has beautiful tail feathers.
5. This final feather broke the camel's back.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of FEATHER
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feather
v. join tongue and groove, in carpentry
v. turn the oar, while rowing
Classic Sentence: (110 in 8 pages)
1 The room had now been set in order, the sumptuous feather bed removed, and a table set before the sofa.
2 Upon this the good lady expressed her readiness to send for feather beds and cushions, but her husband expressed a preference for slumbering in an armchair, and she therefore departed.
3 Also, when seated, he continued to peep between his neighbours' backs and shoulders, until at last he discovered her sitting beside her mother, who was wearing a sort of Oriental turban and feather.
4 If anyone of them happens to be valiant about something, he need not be comforted nor carried away by that; he would show the white feather just the same before something else.
5 Natasha wept, sitting on the blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend.
6 Sonya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in the feather bed.
7 The quilt of a high, white feather bed was just visible behind a screen.
8 A woman with an unweaned baby, an old woman, and a healthy German girl with bright red cheeks were sitting on some feather beds.
9 She sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and Katie, sleepy and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third time, muttering to herself.
10 The wet nurse supported the coverlet with her chin, while the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy's little red and wrinkled soles and palms.
11 This couch was high, with a feather bed and five pillows each smaller than the one below.
12 This final feather broke the camel's back.
13 I felt easy and happy and light as a feather right off.
14 Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather right straight off, and my troubles all gone.
15 She then laid twenty mattresses one upon another over the three peas, and put twenty feather beds over the mattresses.
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1 Winning the gold medal was yet another feather in her cap.
2 I taped the base of the feather onto the velvet.
3 Birds of a feather flock together.
4 It is not only the feather that makes the bird.
5 Sir Joseph's knighthood was the final feather in his cap after years of dedicated service to the community.
6 Nothing has happened since the poultry was all removed - to the last feather - on Saturday afternoon.
7 The room Jacques and I occupied, though large, was dwarfed by an immense feather bed. It was a bed to end all beds, almost as big as a tennis court and as thick as a bale of hay.
8 A feather floats about on the air, especially on a windy day. If there is a shower of rain, the feather will get wet and heavy with water, and then it will sink straight to the ground.
9 To which Tom responded with jeers, and started off in high feather, and as soon as his back was turned the new boy snatched up a stone, threw it and hit him between the shoulders and then turned tail and ran like an antelope.
10 In almost every face and every person, they may discover fine feathers and defects, good and bad qualities.
11 The male has beautiful tail feathers.
12 This type of bird is very inconspicuous because of its dull feathers.
13 The bird ruffled up its feathers.
14 The bird fluffed out its feathers.
15 The peacock has fair feathers, but foul feet.