PLUMAGE in a Sentence
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12 example sentences for PLUMAGE, such as:
1. Long I gazed at that prodigy of plumage.
2. The regiment fluttered like a bird preening its plumage and became motionless.
3. The tresses of this lady were shining and black, like the plumage of the raven.
4. This sort of love is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove.
5. Bird watchers identify different species of bird by their characteristic songs and distinctive plumage.
2. The regiment fluttered like a bird preening its plumage and became motionless.
3. The tresses of this lady were shining and black, like the plumage of the raven.
4. This sort of love is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove.
5. Bird watchers identify different species of bird by their characteristic songs and distinctive plumage.
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Meanings and Examples of PLUMAGE
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plumage
n. covering of feathers on bird; feathers used ornamentally; elaborate dress
Classic Sentence:
1 As yet the knights held their long lances upright, their bright points glancing to the sun, and the streamers with which they were decorated fluttering over the plumage of the helmets.
2 The gay plumage, shorn from the crests, drifted upon the breeze like snow-flakes.
3 On the other hand, the stately form of the Norman appeared to dilate in magnitude, like that of the eagle, which ruffles up its plumage when about to pounce on its defenceless prey.
4 His head was sunk upon his breast, and he looked from my point of view like a strange, lank bird, with dull gray plumage and a black top-knot.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
5 Long I gazed at that prodigy of plumage.
6 Other poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lovely plumage of the bird that never alights; less celestial, I celebrate a tail.
7 The tresses of this lady were shining and black, like the plumage of the raven.
8 The entire array, moreover, clad in burnished steel, and with plumage nodding over their bright morions, had a brilliancy of effect which no modern display can aspire to equal.
9 The regiment fluttered like a bird preening its plumage and became motionless.
10 This sort of love is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove.
11 But they take no violence on their plumage, nor wounds on their bodies; and soaring into the firmament with rapid flight, leave their foul traces on the spoil they had half consumed.
Example Sentence:
1 Bird watchers identify different species of bird by their characteristic songs and distinctive plumage.