Sentence examples for stray feathers from inspiring English sources

Set the oven at 220C/gas mark 7. Check the birds for any stray feathers.

Silty sand, stray feathers and a mackerel complete a surreal collage.

Moreover, he pointed out, stray feathers and an offensive odor during warmer months are an unavoidable part of the poultry business.

Their bodies then travel to a second bath of hot water, to loosen the feathers, which are stripped off by machine (any stray feathers are plucked off by hand).

Jarman painted over the covers, blackened the pages and wrote on them in gold ink, turning them into profane missals that he stuffed with stray feathers, pressed flowers, newspaper cuttings and saucy male pin-ups, even a £10 note, which was his entire fee for directing a film of Britten's War Requiem.

A. The danger of getting a disease from pigeon feathers is small, said Dr. Mindy LaBranche, project coordinator for urban bird studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, but there is a different reason for leaving stray feathers on the ground: federal law.

If so much as a stray feather in your eggbox freaks you out, then this is not for you.

Trailing 2-1 and 30-40 on Djokovic's serve, Federer found inspiration in a stray feather that got entangled in the net.

Stray brown feathers had started to speckle the park lawns, but the goose in question had not started to molt.

Behind an anonymous door on the Rue de Faubourg Saint Denis, the only clues to what happens upstairs are a few stray black feathers on the doormat.

Her office is a museum of pleasing curiosities: framed seashells, dried pussy willows extending from asymmetrical vases, a coffee table decorated with feathers and stray tiles used as coasters.