feathered creature
Example Sentences
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It’s the Therizinosaurus, a feathered creature that is no less menacing even as an herbivore.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2022
It was a feathered creature, but not one of the more commonly seen wild birds in the park.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2013
Rosenzweig introduced the metaphor of the Dodo Bird, after the feathered creature in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, who declared following a race that “everyone has won, and all must have prizes.”
From Scientific American • Sep. 13, 2012
Even the smallest feathered creature in North America, the .09-oz. calliope hummingbird, buzzes 6,000 miles each year from British Columbia to Mexico City and back.
From Time Magazine Archive
I well remember he told me that I now had seen the nest and eggs of the smallest feathered creature except the Lady Bird, and he never had found its cradle himself.
From Moths of the Limberlost by Stratton-Porter, Gene
