Sentence examples for pouter pigeon from inspiring English sources
"Lana used to thrust out her bosom like a pouter pigeon".
"She has a comical way of puffing up her face like a pouter pigeon and of hitting a high note with a kind of hysterical relief that she got there," Mr. Gelb wrote.
They are usually small and fluffy, as in some chickens and pouter pigeons.
Notwithstanding the inconvenient existence of dogs, cabbages and pouter pigeons, the entire corpus of mathematical genetics, from 1930 to today, is flat wrong.
A soft Conran leather blouson jacket teamed with very tight trousers, for instance, is a reminder of the way that young men circa 1986 used to billow out at the top like pouter pigeons before tapering to the tiniest of snake hips.
The all-male cast sport ballooning hose and pouter-pigeon breasts.
We see the pouter-pigeon exterior of a man totally committed to propriety.
There are scores of pigeon breeds, all of them varieties of the rock dove, the bird you see in cities. Fancy breeds — such as pygmy pouters, oriental frills, and short-faced tumblers — are raised for show and for performance.
There are scores of pigeon breeds, all of them varieties of the rock dove, the bird you see in cities. Fancy breeds—such as pygmy pouters, oriental frills, and short-faced tumblers are raised for show and for performance.
See domestic pigeon; pigeon.
