fur
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According to the Bat Conservation Trust, the species is similar in appearance to, but slightly larger than, the common bat but with longer fur on its back.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The looks are giving armor — not necessarily metal armor, but you have the fur, the leather, all the straps and headpieces, and it’s kind of like you’re protecting yourself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The story of California’s decimated fishing industry begins with Russian fur hunters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Elephant seals live in open water, but it’s common for them to return to where they were born for molting season, when they shed their topmost layer of skin and fur.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
They had patterns of different-color fur and bands of wolf fish skin.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
Shopkeepers at the boutique frantically hid their furs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Inside, newly seated designer Maria Grazia Chiuri showed a collection that included "remodelled" furs, or old furs reworked.
From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026
Beavers in the UK were hunted to extinction in the 16th Century, mainly for their furs.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2025
The needles likely were used to create garments from the animals' furs to keep the early foragers warm in what was a cool climate.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
She slipped her hand slowly into her furs till she was sure the alethiometer was still there, and then carefully withdrew the spy-fly tin and slipped it down into her fur boot.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
Known as the Blue Bear Beast Bloodlust Incarnate, the ferocious, turquoise-colored furred monster has claws and bites.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
The former is a low-mounding perennial with furred purple blooms on short stems in spring, while the latter is a deciduous woody vine that produces nodding, deep yellow flowers in late summer.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022
The others had eggs but no fish, a fish carcass furred white with bacteria or nothing at all.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
His new, weird, soft sponginess is unsettling at best, and though his furred friends are a little less off-putting, it’s not by much.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2021
It was a delicate thing, its wings furred in plush the color of twilight.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
I was astounded by what I saw as I removed the drywall that was screwed to the wood furring strips that were nailed to the four-inch solid concrete block that made the chimney.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021
If flue gases had escaped from the chimney, they could have set the wood framing near the chimney and the wood furring strips on fire.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2021
Made of rare-earth magnets encased in wood, the holder looks almost like a well-sanded and stained furring strip.
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2019
Bad cholesterol is the villain in heart world - it leads to blood vessels furring up, becoming easy to block which fatally starves the heart or brain of oxygen.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2017
The pine paneling was gone from the walls leaving just the furring strips.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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