Sentence examples for a scarecrow from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a scarecrow" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a figure made of straw or other materials, typically placed in fields to deter birds from eating crops.
Example: "The farmer placed a scarecrow in the middle of the cornfield to protect his crops from the crows."
Alternatives: "a straw man" or "a field guardian".

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It looked like a scarecrow.

Like a scarecrow on a pole.

At first, he was thought to be a scarecrow.

The narrator's mother said she looked like a scarecrow.

Besides planting the garden, the girls built a scarecrow.

The exiled Stevenson was both a laird and a scarecrow.

"I look like a scarecrow," Ms. Namata said.

A scarecrow tries to lay eggs in the henhouse.

Do you think you're a scarecrow and I'm a crow?

Eli is "a scarecrow of a man in a secondhand suit," a "beast among lambs".

He isn't a side thought or a scarecrow or a bogeyman.

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