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Example sentences for "tail feathers"

  • Glossy black above, unmarked except by fine white spots on primaries; under parts grayish white, sides thickly barred black and white; three outer pairs of tail feathers white, sides of throat with broad white stripe.

  • A miniature Hairy Woodpecker, differing only in having four outer pairs of tail feathers more or less white and the outermost barred.

  • In the breeding season the two middle tail feathers of the cock grow over an inch longer than the others and project beyond them like bristles.

  • An ashy-brown bird, having a broad white eyebrow and the outer tail feathers white.

  • They are characterised by having the median pair of tail feathers prolonged a couple of inches beyond the others as bristles.

  • In the hot weather the two middle tail feathers of the cock exceed the others in length by fully two inches.

  • Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers.

  • The middle pair of tail feathers, or middle rectrices.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tail feathers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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