Sentence examples for feather consists of a from inspiring English sources
The typical contour feather consists of a tapered central shaft, the rachis, with paired branches (barbs) on each side.
The typical feather consists of a central shaft (rachis), with serial paired branches (barbs) forming a flattened, usually curved surface the vane.
Many finds of fossil feathers consist of a single feather, which makes identifying their former owners not always easy (identifying feathers from living birds can already be challenging).
These properties suggest that the individual feathers consisted of a central quill (rachis) with thinner barbs branching off from it, similar to but more primitive in structure than modern bird feathers.
The badge, known as the Prince of Wales's feathers, consists of three white feathers emerging from a gold coronet.
Modern feathers consist of thousands of fibres held together by tiny hooks.
The Dutch writer Adriaan van Dis has won this year's Gouden Ganzenveer (Golden Goose Feather) literary prize, which recognizes an author's contribution to the written word; the award consists of a single golden feather.
The 125 million year old Early Cretaceous feathered dinosaur fauna of Liaoning, China consists of a variety of species with diverse body plans found at numerous localities across northeastern China.
"Dreamscape" consists of a murky gray-blue ground stained at intervals with colorful, feather-edged shapes of all kinds.
It consists of a delicate, life-size human skull made of household dust fitted over the business end of a synthetic feather duster.
