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• I'm lucky to be alive. The bus missed me by a whisker.From the entry by a whisker
• Whiskers sprouted from the old man's chin.From the entry sprout
• The whisker biscuit is the most typical rest, but it can slightly reduce the arrow's speed.2021, Miguel Rocha, HowExpert Guide to Archery, page 6. From the entry whisker biscuit
• Storm sprang onto the bed and nosed around her with his whiskers.2013, Deborah Bedford, Blessing, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry nose around
• Andrew's eyes blinked open as whiskers met his cheeks just before feline lips.2006, Kenneth Fox, Joined in Mind and Body, Kenneth Fox, →ISBN, page 230. From the entry shi
• Look at the cat’s ears and whiskers.” She shows the picture around and signs “It’s a snowcat!”1989, Susan A. Mather, “II. Language Policy”, “8. Visually Oriented Teaching Strategies with Deaf Preschool Children”, in Ceil Lucas…. From the entry snowcat
• Then glue each whisker, like so, next to the nose, four on a side." She was watching.1987, Josephine Humphreys, Rich in Love, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 236. From the entry glue
• This gives whiskers a degree of toughness and nonfriability not found in any other reinforcements.1978, Raymond Benedict Seymour (editor), Additives For Plastics, page 80. From the entry nonfriability
• What if the fellow cleaned his teeth and reamed his nails and wore side-lever whiskers?1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 212. From the entry side-lever
• No, nor I ain’t goin’ to kiss nobody’s whiskers: I ain’t a Peasoup.1929, John Beames, chapter XVIII, in An Army without Banners, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, published March 1930, →OCLC, page 177. From the entry peasoup
• Here a couple of old men in whiskers and spectacles leant over us, making strange sounds.1922, Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, part 4, chapter 2, The Fidgit's Story. From the entry codling
• A tail and long whiskers and teethies that bite!2019, Kelly DiPucchio, We’re Going on a Treasure Hunt, Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, →ISBN. From the entry teethies
• Their evidence suggests that fur and whiskers appeared early on in the ancestry of mammals, in the earliest probainognathians.2016 September 7, Elsa Panciroli, “Did milk and fur evolve before the earliest mammals?”, in The Guardian. From the entry probainognathian
• The long, yellow face was framed in side whiskers; there hung about him the nidor of stale cigar smoke.2008, Edgar Wallace, Devil Man, page 9. From the entry nidor
• The barber scraped off another stripe of soap and whiskers.2008, Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, published 2010, →ISBN, page 137. From the entry midshave
• "Yeesh," Ratchet muttered again, caressing his singed whiskers.2005, Lee Edward Födi, Kendra Kandlestar and the Box of Whispers. From the entry yeesh
• The Patented Hoyt Jib Boom adds to offwind speed by vanging the jib and acting as a built in whisker pole.1999 January, Cruising World, volume 25, number 1, page 80. From the entry vang
• "This is how the whiskers went, I think.1987, Josephine Humphreys, Rich in Love, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 236. From the entry glue
• But at least it took the whiskers off dandily.1966 April 3, Art Vinsel, “Gadzooks! Where Did All the Hirsutes Come From?”, in Independent-Press-Telegram, volume 14, number 31, Long…. From the entry hirsute
• "Ain't it funny," he observed, "how them Chineses take God to be an old man with long whiskers!1937, Avocations, volumes 1-2, page 54. From the entry Chineses
• Only the chickens clacked at the Saturday quiet and fat mouse-minded cats licked whiskers on the empty steps.1934, Gladys Bagg Taber, Late Climbs the Sun, page 30. From the entry clack
• "Leggo my whiskers, consarn ye!" it shouted.1913, Janet Aldridge, The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas. From the entry consarn
• He was of a wandering habit and he had foxey whiskers; they never knew where he would be next.1912, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mr. Tod. From the entry foxey
• The bad news was his whisker biscuit—the part that guided the arrow—as well as his sight and stabilizer had been snapped, shattered, and otherwise removed.2016, Jason Kassab, Strays, page 211. From the entry whisker biscuit
• To judge from the photos Gerald's hippy phase had reached its counter-cultural extreme in a pair of mutton-chop whiskers and a floral tie.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 12, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry mutton-chop whiskers
• The superciliary whiskers above the eyes and the genal whiskers on the cheeks are less rigid and distinctly less mobile than the mystacials.1999, Wild Discovery Guide to Your Cat. From the entry mystacial
• With his borrowed orderly's jacket, his work boots, grease-stained jeans and a nightful of whiskers, he could guess what he looked like in her eyes.1990, Jennifer Greene, Slow Dance, page 38. From the entry nightful
• They semi-roughed it near Dwyer, Ontario and came home with a deer, some tall tales about life in the wilds and four chinsful of whiskers.1960 October 13, “Social Agenda Shrinks; Storm Windows, Leaves Take Over”, in Arlington Heights Herald, Arlington Heights, Ill.. From the entry chinful
• Stettinius—she a poet; he a bleached man, with goatish whiskers and a sanctimonious white neck-cloth, who was Puritanically, ethically, gloomily, religiously atheistic.1914, Sinclair Lewis, Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, […], page 119. From the entry puritanically
• For now the boys grew whiskers and hung fox pelts from their shoulders and the girlen all wore scarlet skirts and braided ribbons through their hair.2015, David Greygoose, Brunt Boggart, published 27 September 2018, →ISBN. From the entry -en
• His posture balletic, his white whiskers mad as a cat's, his formal coat very brushed and very blue , muttering infamies at me all the while .2012, Lyndsay Faye, The Gods of Gotham. From the entry brushed
• The Native Cat, or Tjilpa, is not a real cat but a small marsupial (Dasyurus geoffreyi) with outsize whiskers and a banded tail held vertically above its back.1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 290. From the entry native cat
• He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad.1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit. From the entry long
• He loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his brown spots faded.1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New…. From the entry look

Meaning of whisker

1. noun That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, usually of the male, or upon the chin, or upon both.
2. noun A hair of the beard.
3. noun One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.

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Questions about whisker in a sentence

How do you use whisker in a sentence?

Whisker is used as a noun. For example: “It missed falling on your foot by a whisker.”

What is a short sentence with whisker?

“"Leggo my whiskers, consarn ye!" it shouted.”

What does whisker mean?

Whisker means that part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, usually of the male, or upon the chin, or upon both.