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How to use pheasant in a sentence

25 example sentences · noun

Pheasant means a bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food. Example: “He brought down a pheasant with his first shot of the day.”

Examples of pheasant by meaning

nounThe meat of this bird, eaten as food.

  • Tables were laid with cold pheasant, watercressy finger foods, sweets sufficient to give the Greater Raleigh Area sugar shock.1989, Allan Gurganus, “Black, White, and Lilac”, in Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, book...
  • Célestin Lainé sat on the edge of the bed, a tray on his lap, eating pheasant and roast vegetables with a red wine reduction.2013, Stuart Neville, chapter 30, in Ratlines, New York, N.Y.: Soho Crime, →ISBN, page 158
  • And a slice of pheasant.2015, Shauna Roberts, chapter 41, in Ice Magic, Fire Magic, Overland Park, Kan.: Hadley Rille Books, →ISBN, page 266

More sentences with pheasant

  • He brought down a pheasant with his first shot of the day.From the entry bring down
  • I drew on the pheasant as it rose.From the entry draw on
  • Like a cat he crawled through the pines, watching the hen pheasant.2025, Daniel P. Mannix, The Fox and the Hound. From the entry upcraned
  • Feng-huang has the head and the comb of a pheasant and the tail of a peacock.2016, Pamela Ball, “The Physical Practice of Tao”, in The Essence of Tao, London: Arcturus Publishing Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172. From the entry feng-huang
  • To be first on the road, Up with the ground-mists and pheasants.2010, Seamus Heaney, Seeing Things, page 8. From the entry ground-mist
  • One of the most beautiful species is the Impeyan pheasant, Nepal's national bird.2009, Ann Heinrichs, Mount Everest, Marshall Cavendish, page 36. From the entry Impeyan pheasant
  • This conyger, where rabbits were reserved centuries ago, is still kept as a pheasant roost.2009, Geoffrey Grigson, The Shell Country Alphabet: The Classic Guide to the British Countryside, →ISBN. From the entry conyger
  • Though depicted "in its pride”, the body has the elongated shape of the present-day pheasant.1983, Cynthia Mortimore, in a letter to (and published in) Country Life, volume 173, page 582. From the entry in pride
  • There were silver tongs for the sugar, apostle spoons with elaborate handles, a milk jug adorned with a pheasant in flight.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 114. From the entry apostle spoon
  • I go back to the kitchen and find a knife, still smeared with sweet potato and bits of pheasant meat.2013, Sherri L. Smith, chapter 12, in Orleans, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, part 2 (Freesteader), page 116. From the entry sweet potato
  • The tagliatelli with pheasant ragout, rich and pungent, or grilled salmon with black-eyed peas can round out your night.2009 January 16, Adam Nagourney, “Plenty of Options for Washington’s Hungry Visitors”, in New York Times. From the entry tagliatelli
  • Around her her courtiers started like pheasants.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 12, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry courtier
  • There were Russian hors d’oeuvres of black caviar, a roasted pheasant as an entrée, and cream plombir for dessert.1999, Muse Norcross Kotenev, “Father Writes Books”, in Through the MOONgate, Lincoln, Neb.: toExcel Press, iUniverse.com, Inc., →ISBN…. From the entry plombir
  • It was thought to come from the southeast and possessed a voice like thunder which made all the wild pheasants call.[1988, Robin D. S. Yates, Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 123. From the entry Chencang
  • Although the estate had been shot previously, there had been no effective keepering and little success with the pheasants released.1969, Game Conservancy (Great Britain), Annual Review (issues 1-8, page 16). From the entry shoot
  • There are several species of the Fireback pheasant, the most common of which is the Siamese, which inhabits parts of Siam.1910, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural Conditions, Practices and Ideals in the…. From the entry fireback
  • Aldo and Carl had an autumnful of grouse and pheasant hunts, using the shack as basecamp for excursions into the tamarack swamps of Adams County.2010, Curt D. Meine, Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work, page 410. From the entry autumnful
  • And he did, every day — rabbits, hares; he once leapt hugely after a pheasant we put up, and got it too.2007, Frances Mary Hendry, Wee Malkie. From the entry wahey
  • Nevertheless, some of these may be of both cultural value and international conservation concern, like Lady Amherst's pheasant in Bedfordshire, just as much as those threatened archaeophyte weeds.2009, T[homas] C[hristopher] Smout, “History, Nature and Culture in British Nature Conservation”, in Exploring Environmental History…. From the entry archaeophyte
  • Peacocks, which are related to the pheasants and other fowllike birds, are native of India and Ceylon, but in ancient times were introduced into Palestine, Greece, and Rome.1919, New York State College of Agriculture, (Please provide the book title or journal name). From the entry fowllike
  • The light is still that bright-green shining through new leaves, and from afar we hear pheasants calling: a smart chock, chock call not quite sufficiently suggestive of their epic dumbness.2011 May 8, Emma Townshend, “Wakehurst Place: Kew's country cousin is as accessible as tricky terrains come”, in The Independent, London…. From the entry chock
  • Giant pheasants and thrushes, crisply roasted and garnished with rich sauces, a huge vat of potage de légumes, a tub of salade Niçoise, a side of bifteck drenched in gravy.1968, John G[rant] Fuller, chapter 6, in The Day of St. Anthony’s Fire, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 109. From the entry pantagruelian

Meaning of pheasant

  1. noun A bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food.
  2. noun The meat of this bird, eaten as food.

Full definition of pheasant

Questions about pheasant in a sentence

How do you use pheasant in a sentence?
Pheasant is used as a noun. For example: “He brought down a pheasant with his first shot of the day.”
What is a short sentence with pheasant?
“And a slice of pheasant.”
What does pheasant mean?
Pheasant means a bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food.

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