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’s the Therizinosaurus, a feathered creature that is no less menacing even as an herbivore.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2022
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
There is nothing unusual in hearing this bird screaming half the day—for it is, perhaps, more easily excited than any other feathered creature.
From The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
