feathered creature
Example Sentences
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“They’re frightening to me,” he said, and seconds later some tiny feathered creature — a sparrow, maybe — flew so close to his head that he flinched.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 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
As far as health officials can tell, every patient with H5N1 flu was infected directly by a chicken or some other feathered creature.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then came a great crash, more cries from Snoop and out into the middle of the barn floor dashed the black cat with a big, long-legged, feathered creature clinging to poor Snoop's tail.
From The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook by Hope, Laura Lee
