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How to use feathered in a sentence

34 example sentences · adjective

Feathered means covered with feathers. Example: “The propeller blades' pitch went to 90° as the engine was feathered.”

Examples of feathered by meaning

adjectiveCovered with feathers.

  • Some birds are feathered tufts of color so resplendent that they stand out brilliantly from their surroundings.2024 October 31, Ari Daniel, “How parrot plumage gets its dazzling reds and yellows”, in NPR

adjectiveHaving a specific type or number of feathers.

  • a blue-feathered bird

More sentences with feathered

  • The propeller blades' pitch went to 90° as the engine was feathered.From the entry pitch
  • After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the damaged left engine’s propeller.From the entry feather
  • A catchpole at Elsinore named Osric, while showing me its workings, set his feathered cap aflame.2016 February 19, John O’Donnell, chapter XV, in Revenge at Elsinore, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, published 12 January 2017, →ISBN…. From the entry mortificate
  • He's an eco-activist maverick, with a Greenpeace mentality when it comes to protecting his little feathered friends.2012, Stephen M. Ringler, Fled to Mexico: If No One Knows They Were There Then It Didn't Happen, page 191. From the entry Greenpeace
  • “If I could spare you what's coming—” “No.” Drake feathered her fingers through Sylvan's hair.2011, L.L. Raand, Blood Hunt, Bold Strokes Books Inc, →ISBN. From the entry feather
  • He has parked his feathered hat on a bedpost, suggesting that this tryst is a noonsie.2003, The New Yorker, volume 79, page 123. From the entry noonsie
  • The blacks crept up on their camp in their feathered kadaitcha boots to spear them.1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 152. From the entry kurdaitcha
  • The antennæ are black, the arista feathered on the upper side only.1915, O. A. Johannsen, William A. Riley, Handbook of Medical Entomology. From the entry arista
  • Boshy, elated, improvised a series of unbirdlike notes, startlingly loud, and new to all feathered folk.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry unbirdlike
  • They hatched with bare bodies but with fully feathered wings.2023 June 3, Carl Zimmer, “How Did Birds First Take Off?”, in The New York Times. From the entry enantiornithine
  • And didn’t you tell him that the pawn shop that he has there is the home of the feathered oof-bird?”2015 April 24, Francis Dimenno, “The Information #883”, in dimenno. From the entry feathered oof-bird
  • Makela waltzes past, her feathered cape swirling.2015, Anthony Nanson, Deep Time, Hawthorn Press, →ISBN. From the entry beastmistress
  • Winged, feathered serpents of considerable size and power, the couatl seeks to defend its territory against all invaders.2012, Timothy Groves, The Book Of Creatures, page 44. From the entry couatl
  • They are pardalotes, tiny little feathered jewels with stubby bills and stubby tails, giving an oddly ladybird-like silhouette.2011, Ian Fraser, Peter Marsack, A Bush Capital Year: A Natural History of the Canberra Region, page 137. From the entry pardalote
  • I sat there on a bench in dappled shade, beside an aviary full of brightly feathered finches and siskins fluttering about.2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 2. From the entry siskin
  • In the morning sharp eyes would be dilated by tracks surely made by the dreaded Kurdaitcha without his feathered feet.1953, Arthur Upfield, Murder Must Wait, page 105. From the entry kurdaitcha
  • And so. beguiled by feathered pen, I daunder on.1925, The Border Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly - Volume 30, page 71. From the entry daunder
  • A birdchief, bluestreaked and feathered in war panoply with his assegai, striding through a crackling canebrake over beechmast and acorns.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses. From the entry assegai
  • Bellying forward to the edge of the clearing, he found Hans, lying on his face, feathered with arrows like a porcupine.1903 July, Jack London, “The Sounding of the Call”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan &…. From the entry belly
  • The recollection set free the joy in the aviary of his heart after three decades and he settled on rearing his feathered friends thereafter.2021 November 28, Azeefa Fathima, “Birds of a feather rejoice together in this TN man's home”, in New Indian Express, Good News. From the entry squeaker
  • Yoinks and away such feathered artistry!2016, Alliance Poets World-Wide, Poetry To Embrace with Love Book Three, →ISBN, page 109. From the entry yoinks
  • Eagles and fish-hawks were the only birds visible in this part of the Winnipeg, the other species of the feathered tribe being in the rice-fields.2014, Henry Youle Hind, Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857, →ISBN. From the entry fish-hawk
  • As its name implies, this bird has a feathered crest that is frequently raised as it relates to nearby guans or to potential danger.2010, Carrol L. Henderson, Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide, page 40. From the entry guan
  • Each of the lords is already dressed in jade earflares, Jester God crowns, collars, wristlets, knee bands, and feathered anklets studded with jade beads.2009, Matthew G. Looper, To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization, page 64. From the entry earflare
  • Fans of all things feathered and slashy have the rest of the month to obtain a PSP, if they don't yet have one.2008 March 25, Zach Welhouse, “Starring Sephiroth and Some Other Chumps”, in RPGamer, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2008. From the entry slashy
  • On most birds, the tarsus is scaly and unfeathered, but a few arctic species--snowy owls, ptarmigans, and rough-legged hawks among them--have feathered tarsi.1988 February 5, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry unfeathered
  • A full ostentation of peahens who it appeared had been drawn in by the sight of me in my feathered coat, mistaking me for an actual peacock!2021, Sam Downes, Claude Des Forges, Fashion Follies, Rectangle Books. From the entry ostentation
  • Fields (or “camps”) enclosed by chest-high wire fences now contain thousands of ostriches in seeming harmony, sometimes spread out like feathered chess pieces, sometimes seated in clusters.2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine. From the entry seeming
  • Therefore, we should be cautious in using only one or a few of these feathered paravians as a proxy for the ancestral morphological, functional, and behavioural conditions of birds.2015 July 16, Junchang Lü, Stephen L. Brusatte, “A large, short-armed, winged dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early…. From the entry paravians
  • If this could be shown, the above statement would be systematically related to other statements about ravenhood in particular and the genetics of feathered creatures in general.1995, Friedel Weinert, Laws of Nature, page 23. From the entry ravenhood
  • The ground here, it seems, is a mecca for the costive denizens of the Sahel, an unspoiled latrine for Mother Nature and all her feathered, furred and squamate creation.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 45. From the entry squamate
  • The very ground seemed to shake with the landing impact of all those silver and gold dragons, as well as the backwing flaps of over a thousand large, feathered mounts.2012, J. Michael Fluck, Dragon Alliance: Dark Storm, →ISBN. From the entry backwing

Meaning of feathered

  1. adjective Covered with feathers.
  2. adjective Having the blades of oars or propellers parallel to the direction of motion.
  3. adjective Having a finely bevelled edge.

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Questions about feathered in a sentence

How do you use feathered in a sentence?
Feathered is used as an adjective. For example: “The propeller blades' pitch went to 90° as the engine was feathered.”
What is a short sentence with feathered?
“a blue-feathered bird”
What does feathered mean?
Feathered means covered with feathers.

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