Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for quail. Search instead for quaigh.
Definitions

quail

[kweyl] / kweɪl /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

The author is a freelancer and storyteller who lives in Glassell Park with her husband, two dogs and four quail.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

Next, a little deep-fried quail leg, crisp and savory, like a miniature Southern Colonel’s specialty or Bill Gorton’s riverside treat, paired with a sharp aioli.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

Instead, the firm has chosen quail because fewer people know what it is supposed to taste like.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2025

A quail on the Mexican side called back, triggering a back-and-forth soundtrack that was both fitting and heartbreaking in an ecosystem split by an artificial barrier.

From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2024

As tested on quail and pheasants, it has proved to be about 40 to 50 times as toxic as DDT.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Depre raises around 17,500 free-range hens and 70,000 quails in sheds with outdoor runs.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Here you can chase hummingbirds, roam through the never-crowded garden and “visit Stoneview’s resident quails, which have their own fenced-in compound called, ‘Quallywood,’” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026

The tinned dishes included typical Mediterranean ingredients, such as olives, tomatoes, quails and swordfish.

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024

Though scientists don’t fully understand these light-sensing receptors, one team identified certain brain cells in quails that could directly detect light, according to a study published in 2014 in Current Biology.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2023

There was so much bobbing and grinning and nodding up and down, they looked like a covey of quails.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

My heart quailed at the idea of sharing a roof with her again, all of us swept up in the tornado vortex of her illness.

From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2022

Naturally Helberg quailed at the thought of taking on Jimmy Stewart’s iconic role?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2018

Some of the starkest images of the extremism that gained ground in the 1930s as democracies quailed came from German artists themselves.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2017

No, wait: She quailed at confronting the Islamic State.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2016

She glanced again at the scratches oh the young man’s smooth brown arm, and quailed for a moment.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

It wasn’t so long ago that book publishers and bookstore owners were quailing about the coming of ebooks, like movie theater owners at the dawn of the television age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2022

He has been a quailing, simpering paragon of mediocrity.

From Washington Post ● May 10, 2021

Instead, lawmakers, quailing at the union’s opposition, decided only that civilians may be included on the boards — which, in practice, is unlikely to happen.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2016

It is Micawber, hounded by creditors but never for an instant quailing at their squalid naggings, who first protects young David Copperfield in London.

From Time Magazine Archive

But quailing at the thought of Strauss’s certain apoplexy at his withdrawal, he chose to put off the uncomfortable conversation until the last minute.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




Vocabulary lists containing quail


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 14,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training