feather duster
Example Sentences
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Don’t use a feather duster or anything similar that stirs up dust, Filippelli said.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024
The “hair” sprouting off this branch resembles a downy feather duster or fluffy tuft of cotton—maybe even fragments of a bad white wig.
From Scientific American • Dec. 7, 2021
Unlike a pig’s curlicue or a raccoon’s striped feather duster, a scorpion’s tail also contains the arthropod’s intestine and ventral nerve cord, the invertebrate equivalent of a human spinal cord.
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2021
The feather duster is a goose that lays golden eggs; the ladder, the tower from which Rapunzel lets down her hair; the curtain rod, a support for the dresses worn by Cinderella’s hardhearted Stepsisters.
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2016
I said, “In between spring and fall, and fall and spring, ma’am, you just s’posed to sweep and mop and use the feather duster and like that.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
