feathers
Example Sentences
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Then, as if this was a totally normal thing to do, Trey shoved a handful of feathers toward me like it was the bouquet of flowers.
From Literature
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His contribution—detailing an encounter when two souls had arrived at once— used a variety of mediums: berry pulp, bone slivers, feathers, sap.
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The word “bird” appears some 20 times in these pages; “canary” also appears frequently, along with one “ostrich” and a few “feathers.”
She would just be free and wear glitter on her face and have feathers in her hair and her music was very unapologetically brash and tongue-in-cheek with the lyrics.
From Los Angeles Times
Another study led by former graduate student Cynthia Wang-Claypool found that feathers, including those of Anna's hummingbirds, contain ethyl glucuronide, a byproduct of ethanol metabolism.
From Science Daily
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