Sentence examples for whiskered from inspiring English sources
adjective
Possessed of whiskers; covered in bristles.
- Michael's heavily whiskered face hadn't seen a razor in some days.
Gatiss, when we meet in a London cafe, proves as sumptuously whiskered as Cavor.
It's hard not to think he'd be happier in another more innocent and sumptuously whiskered age.
Mr Palocci is big, amiable, whiskered, and like Lula speaks with a disarming lisp.
A photograph shows a stick-insect sort of youth with popping eyes and a bulging forehead beside a whiskered father with a strong, even face: a familiar type of Scottish Victorian.
"There is no point in a loach trying to mimic a goldfish," he said, comparing himself to the whiskered, mud-dwelling fish.
Crab-eating, or long-tailed, macaques (M. fascicularis) of Southeast Asia have whiskered brown faces; they live in forests along rivers, where they eat fruit and fish for crabs and other crustaceans.
The results are preliminary but encouraging: in simple tests of spatial memory, the mice are able to retain information as well as if they were fresh-whiskered pups.Whether such a drug would also have a memory-enhancing effect on young animals with normal memories is not clear, though there seems no obvious reason why it should not.
For generations of frosty-whiskered European explorers, and still today, the ice sheet is synonymous with the power of nature.Special report The melting north Uncovering an ocean Pity the copepod Too much to fight over One man and his dogs Hidden treasure Short and sharp Cold comfort Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsThe Arctic is one of the world's least explored and last wild places.
It was touted for years in universities and think-tanks by two sponsors, Marvin Olasky, a former Marxist and now born-again Christian at the University of Texas in Austin, and Myron Magnet, a Dickens scholar and mutton-chop-whiskered member of the Manhattan Institute in New York.
Several species, including the white-whiskered puffbird (Malacoptila panamensis), pile sticks and leaves at the mouth of the nest tunnel, effectively concealing it.
In Cairo, several Egyptian politicians call him al thaaleb – "the Fox" – and you can almost see Putin in the snow, bushy-tailed and tough-whiskered, his narrow, slightly frightening eyes darting from his narrow face.
