PLUMAGE in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for PLUMAGE, such as:

1. Long I gazed at that prodigy of plumage.
2. The regiment fluttered like a bird preening its plumage and became motionless.
3. This sort of love is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove.
4. The tresses of this lady were shining and black, like the plumage of the raven.
5. Bird watchers identify different species of bird by their characteristic songs and distinctive plumage.

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 Meanings and Examples of PLUMAGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
plumage
 n.  covering of feathers on bird; feathers used ornamentally; elaborate dress
Classic Sentence:
1  As yet the knights held their long lances upright, their bright points glancing to the sun, and the streamers with which they were decorated fluttering over the plumage of the helmets.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  The gay plumage, shorn from the crests, drifted upon the breeze like snow-flakes.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  On the other hand, the stately form of the Norman appeared to dilate in magnitude, like that of the eagle, which ruffles up its plumage when about to pounce on its defenceless prey.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  His head was sunk upon his breast, and he looked from my point of view like a strange, lank bird, with dull gray plumage and a black top-knot.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
5  Long I gazed at that prodigy of plumage.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
6  Other poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lovely plumage of the bird that never alights; less celestial, I celebrate a tail.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
7  The tresses of this lady were shining and black, like the plumage of the raven.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
8  The entire array, moreover, clad in burnished steel, and with plumage nodding over their bright morions, had a brilliancy of effect which no modern display can aspire to equal.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
9  The regiment fluttered like a bird preening its plumage and became motionless.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
10  This sort of love is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW
11  But they take no violence on their plumage, nor wounds on their bodies; and soaring into the firmament with rapid flight, leave their foul traces on the spoil they had half consumed.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
Example Sentence:
1  Bird watchers identify different species of bird by their characteristic songs and distinctive plumage.