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• The turkeys are out of stock but we have some guinea fowl in the back.From the entry out of stock
• Typical of many phasianid birds, guinea fowl are capable runners that have strong burst-flight capacities but little endurance in flight.From the entry phasianid
• A rasp of guinea fowl honked as 'Emma' the ostrich pecked.2025, Rory MacLean, Nick Danziger, Back in the USSR. From the entry rasp
• The waiter reappeared with plates of guinea fowl, baked with pancetta and apples.2015, M[ary] L[ou] Longworth, “M. Verlaque Senior Ventures Beyond the Place des Vosges”, in The Mystery of the Lost Cézanne (Verlaque and…. From the entry guinea fowl
• Our mother kept a dozen chickens, two turkeys, a few ducks and a guinea fowl.[2002, David Omowale, A Season of Waiting, Nairobi, Kenya: East African Educational Publishers, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry yardfowl
• So are his red mullet with wild lettuce and his toothsome sanguette of squab (incredibly juicy fowl!).1996, Douglas E. Easton, Richard E. Burke, “Clos de la Violette: Aix-en-Provence, France”, in The European Gourmet: The Grand Dining Tour…. From the entry sanguette
• Its light glimmered on the river and on the wings of carrion fowl awheel overhead.1983, Poul Anderson, “The Sorrow of Odin the Goth”, in Time Patrolman (Sci-fi), Tom Doherty, →ISBN. From the entry awheel
• Taken twice daily morning and night, in pigeon or fowl broth, preceded and followed by eater.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 102. From the entry broth
• Fowls serenaded, and dogs passed the time lazily, even in the Gentlemen’s Walk.1926, P[ercy] W[ard] Laidler, A Tavern of the Ocean: Being a Social and Historical Sketch of Cape Town from Its Earliest Days, Cape Town…. From the entry Kapenaar
• Lizards usually have white flesh, tasting more like fowl than anything else.1922, Chambers’s Journal, volume XCIX, part 139, London; Edinburgh: W[illiam] & R[obert] Chambers […], →OCLC, page 421, column 1. From the entry salipenter
• "Now I aims to git whut 's been sneakin' off wid my fowls."1920, Marie Conway Oernler, “IV: The Soul of Black Folks”, in The Purple Heights, New York: Century Co.. From the entry potrack
• Like most pure-bred fowls, a flock of Rhode Island Reds is very pleasing to the eye.1913 March 29, Mrs. E.F. Lant, quotee, “Why I Raise Rhode Island Reds”, in Kansas Farmer, volume 51, number 13, page 14. From the entry Rhode Island Red
• George pointed out a flock of aigrets, the beautiful wild fowl with the priceless plumes.1912, Zane Grey, chapter 3, in Ken Ward in the Jungle, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 31. From the entry aigrette
• Being mostly dry in summer, the shore fowl love to breed there.1901, The Pall Mall Magazine, page 138. From the entry slack
• Animals, ducks, fowls, etc., are not fit to kill, do not live, and turn out eventually very dear bargains.2011, Edward Belcher, The Last of the Arctic Voyages, →ISBN. From the entry fit to kill
• "Docudrama" is by its nature a confusing genre—neither fish nor fowl, and thus lacking either taste or substance.2008 December 30, Bob Sommer, “The Education of David Frost”, in CounterPunch, Petrolia, Calif.: CounterPunch, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry docudrama
• This was intended for larger fowl, such as swan.2006, Allison Sim, “Yeomen, Scullions and Children: Living in a Great Household as a Lower Servant”, in Masters and Servants in Tudor…. From the entry chawdron
• Let no one tell you that one needs meat, fowl and dairy products and eggs to make a tasty delicious meal.1965, John H. Tobe, “What to Eat”, in Guideposts to Health and Vigorous Long Life, St. Catharines, Ont.: Modern Publications Reg’d.…. From the entry vegetarianly
• Thousands now use this easy, quick method to flavorize, fatten and increase the body weight in all fowl.1950 April, “Advertisment”, in Poultry Tribune, page 42. From the entry flavorize
• No giant roast, no towering ham or sinewy wild fowl, can unseat an expert carver armed with a keen weapon.1935 February, “The Virtue of Carving”, in The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry unseat
• Many brought presents of roast chickens and pigs, swinging the fowls by their legs as they extolled their succulence.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 138. From the entry succulence
• Neither fish nor fowl, don't you know.1919, E[dward] Phillips Oppenheim, chapter VII, in The Box with Broken Seals, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland & Stewart, →OCLC, page 68. From the entry neither fish nor fowl
• He had had a good day, for several brace of wild fowl hung from his shoulder, and he appeared tired.1905, P[atrick] A[ugustine] Sheehan, “Foreshadowings”, in Glenanaar: A Story of Irish Life, New York, N.Y.; London; Bombay: Longmans…. From the entry brace
• Fowl boiled with a mayonnaise sauce flavored variously, or served in aspic jelly; chicken pie with a crust made from Mrs.1902, Anna Barrows, Estelle Minerva Hatch Merrill, Mary Johnson Lincoln, Everyday Housekeeping: A Magazine for Practical Housekeepers and…. From the entry light-handed
• He was carving a fowl at the time; and with a blade of blunt unservice made but wretched work of it.1901, Alfred Henry Lewis, Richard Croker - Volume 1, page 251. From the entry unservice
• The majority of such establishments will, at a small cost, vacuum-pack smoked fowl, from quail to turkeys and various smoked meats, for the home smoker.2012, Keith Erlandson, Home Smoking and Curing. From the entry vacuum-pack
• Whitley goose might disappoint carnivores expecting succulent fowl — it is a mixture of boiled onions, cheese and milk baked in an oven.2012, Jane Peyton, Brilliant Britain, page 167. From the entry Whitley goose
• A tornado hit Tomahawk in ’89, but took only a pen full of Guinea fowl and the steeple off the Lutheran church.2012, J. F. Glubka, “Heat Lightning”, in Southwest Review, volume 97, number 4, Dallas, Tex.: Southern Methodist University, →ISSN…. From the entry guinea fowl
• We kept the yard fowls cooped up during the planting season each year so they wouldn’t pick the leaves off the young corn.[2002, David Omowale, A Season of Waiting, Nairobi, Kenya: East African Educational Publishers, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry yardfowl
• A pareve person is wishy-washy and vague; a pareve deed or decision is "neither fish nor fowl," of no great consequence, middle-of-the-roadish.[2001, Leo Rosten, Lawrence Bush, “pareve”, in The New Joys of Yiddish, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 281, footnote. From the entry pareve
• At a meeting of the bird delegation, Koryphaios, the head fowl, scolds Epops for encouraging human habitation in their pleasant, humanfree home.1995, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of Utopian Literature. From the entry human-free
• What was ailing this ordinarily competent musical flock that they should have languished into such a straggly, drabbletail gathering of barnyard fowl?1993, Nancy Kay Webb, “Community Concert”, in Ridge Review, volume 10, page 42. From the entry drabble-tail
• It starts with a fish dish, proceeds to a fowl dish, to a beef dish, and to a carameled dessert followed by cheese and fruit.1989, Gavin Frost, Yvonne Frost, “Food Cycles”, in Tantric Yoga: The Royal Path to Raising Kundalini Power, York Beach, Me.: Samuel…. From the entry carameled
• The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which is boned, stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle.1977, Prosper Montagné, Charlotte Snyder Turgeon, The New Larousse Gastronomique, page 73. From the entry bone
• Frequently the growling of our lorry would frighten up coveys of waracabra—black jungle birds somewhat resembling guinea fowls, but with larger and longer legs.1953, Robert H. Pierson, Paddles Over the Kamarang: The Story of the Davis Indians, page 7. From the entry waracabra
• Bradly hung the fowl in a sugar-bag for to-morrow's dinner and set about grilling chops, with tomatoes stuffed with cheese and breadcrumbs in the pan.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 139. From the entry grill
• You are neither fish nor fowl.1934, Lew Levenson, chapter V, in Butterfly Man, New York, N.Y.: Castle Books, →OCLC, page 53. From the entry neither fish nor fowl
• I know very little about the details of the regular diet of salempentas, but fowls' and lizards' eggs and chickens are favorites.1919, William Beebe, quoting Edgar Beckett, “Field Notes on the Lizards of Kartabo, British Guiana, and Caripito, Venezuela. Part 3.…. From the entry salipenter
• And I went and put the fowls in instead of the dog, and he was waxy, so I had to knock a quid off.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Passion”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, page 341. From the entry waxy

Meaning of fowl

1. noun Any bird.
2. noun A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.
3. verb To hunt fowl.

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Questions about fowl in a sentence

How do you use fowl in a sentence?

Fowl is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “We took our guns and went fowling.”

What is a short sentence with fowl?

“You are neither fish nor fowl.”

What does fowl mean?

Fowl means any bird.