hackle

Example Sentences

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The fly he used, and still relies on almost exclusively, is a brown pheasant-tail-and-partridge soft hackle.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 12, 2016

I can read for hours about bugs and knots and how to trick a fish with hair and hackle, but honestly, those are just the perks.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2014

What raises my hackle feathers is the insistence of some writers that a given drink must be made with exactly their specified proportions.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2013

A package of the most popular fly tying hackle for hair extensions, a black and white striped feather called grizzly saddle, would normally retail anywhere from $40 to $60.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2011

Every hackle on his body rose, and he knew that very soon she would, like all of her sisters before her, put to him the death-knell question “Where you been?”

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison