quill
Example Sentences
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Instead, she decided "I'm just going to enjoy it" and wore - appropriately - a red quill headpiece to the Baftas.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
The back features a genie’s lamp resting on an open book and a feathered quill with an olive branch in the background—symbols of peace, knowledge and learning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
The set list mixed new songs with old favorites: “Bloody Mary” into “Abracadabra” into “Judas” into the German-language “Sheiße,” which involved a bunch of oversize quill pens and a Last Supper-style tableau.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2025
When I told Julie that I planned to live for a year constitutionally—muskets, quill pens, and all—her reaction was not “Huzzah!”
From Slate • May 8, 2024
The fox lay perfectly still, eyes closed tightly, wind whistling through his nose, until every single quill had been removed and placed in a neat pile beside him.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
Vocabulary lists containing quill
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Scrabble: Words that Begin with Q
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