feathered creature
Example Sentences
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“They’re frightening to me,” he said, and seconds later some tiny feathered creature — a sparrow, maybe — flew so close to his head that he flinched.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022
It’s the Therizinosaurus, a feathered creature that is no less menacing even as an herbivore.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2022
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
As far as health officials can tell, every patient with H5N1 flu was infected directly by a chicken or some other feathered creature.
From Time Magazine Archive
One can fancy the human-like feathered creature in her green bower, pleading, upbraiding, lamenting; and, listening, we will find it easy enough to put it all into plain language:
From Birds and Man by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
