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
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
And old Captain Lutts' ghost would commune with the little feathered creature.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett
