Sentence examples for kind of feather from inspiring English sources

no other kind of feather will do.

The suppleness of an evening gown (12) made in his London workrooms of pheasant feathers (11) was a revelation, considering that many in Paris say this kind of feather work has vanished.

While we are most used to thinking of the kind of feather than comes from the tip of a birds' wing (the classic quill-pen type), birds have a wide variety of feathers including the simply fluffy down of chicks and the stiff bristles on penguins and the non-avian theropod dinosaurs were the same.

The simple question is, were a great many, even most, non-avian dinosaurs feathered to some degree, or at least, covered in some kind of feather-like covering?

When the Nathansons first saw the house, it was so overgrown that the only thing visible from the road was the characteristic chofa, a kind of feather-shaped finial adorning the peak of the roof.

In Los Angeles last month, Mr. Bradley was shaking hands and signing autographs at a middle school when a television reporter tossed him the kind of feather-pillow question most politicians practically beg to be asked.

He added, "And this kind of feathering your nest is in the egregious tradition of the Teamsters and other unions".

We even see changes in individual species just as we do in living birds, baby chicks have a very different kind of feathers to adult hens for example and a similar (if less dramatic) change has been shown between the juveniles and adults of a dinosaur called Similicaudipteryx.

All of the fossils are apparently clad in some kind of feathers, ranging from fibrous down to true feathers as unmistakable as a pigeon's.

But it's the kind of feather-ruffling that is good for cinema.

They have wings with intricate patterns, kind of feather-like-hair and come in various shapes.