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
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
It is a remarkable diver, and it is thought that no other feathered creature can dive so far beneath the surface or remain so long a time under water.
From Harper's Young People, June 29, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
