feathered creature
Example Sentences
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It’s the Therizinosaurus, a feathered creature that is no less menacing even as an herbivore.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2022
It was a feathered creature, but not one of the more commonly seen wild birds in the park.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2013
Rosenzweig introduced the metaphor of the Dodo Bird, after the feathered creature in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, who declared following a race that “everyone has won, and all must have prizes.”
From Scientific American • Sep. 13, 2012
Even the smallest feathered creature in North America, the .09-oz. calliope hummingbird, buzzes 6,000 miles each year from British Columbia to Mexico City and back.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mottled blur in the sky had become a spot of brightness; sunshine filled the room; in a cage above, a tiny feathered creature began to chirp.
From Half A Chance by Isham, Frederic Stewart
