Sentence examples for down feathers from inspiring English sources

The birds are raised for meat and eggs as well as for their down feathers.

Down feathers have loose-webbed barbs, all rising from the tip of a very short shaft.

We could even see chicks, which looked like large piles of dark, soft down feathers.

Patches (two or more pairs) of powder down feathers are especially characteristic of the herons.

Then he started punching the cushion and massaging it with his fist — the process is called "lofting" — to distribute the down feathers inside more evenly.

Eiderdown, the down feathers of the common eider (Somateria mollissima), are still of wide commercial value for use in luxury quilts and pillows.

World is steel, a ghost of goose down feathering the air.

Land a Hungarian goose down feather on it the wrong way and it becomes beige, insipid fare that piles cliche on formula as someone in a big white shirt looks pensively out of a loft window.

The university used pioneering technology to mimic the effects of sleeping in a laboratory, testing three of the most popular types of bedding - polyester, down feather and wool.

Several masked women performed "Osvobodi Bruschatku" ("Release the Cobblestones") atop a scaffold in a Moscow subway and from the top of trolley cars, while tearing apart down feather pillows, showering feathers onto the train platform below.

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