How to Use feathery in a Sentence

feathery

adjective
  • The stalks should be crisp, with feathery, bright-green fronds.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2020
  • The weather was nice, with feathery clouds and no threat of rain.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Sit back, relax, and wait for your feathery friends to join in on the fun.
    — Betsy Cribb, Southern Living, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The leadoff hitters able to drop a feathery bunt down the line.
    — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 9 July 2017
  • Remove the feathery gills and scoop out the guts inside the body of the crab.
    — Renee Erickson, Robb Report, 25 May 2021
  • But the feathery oddball is so quick that nobody's been able to catch it.
    — Scottie Andrew and Katherine Dillinger, CNN, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Bossy scored on fast, feathery slap shots and searing wristers.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Its purple flowers, born on long stems, arise from feathery clumps.
    — Washington Post, 16 June 2020
  • His brute force had always been leavened by a feathery touch around the basket.
    — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The first golf balls were called feathery golf balls and were made with three pieces of leather of sewn together.
    — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Baby Frances’s feathery blonde was a sign of more matching to come.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Meanwhile, feathery vocals from Blake lend the song a holy sheen.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 4 June 2019
  • His feathery lure — designed to look like a small tasty frog — plopped onto the water.
    — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Complete your look with a feathery bag, bold shoes, and mismatched earrings.
    — Danielle Fox, Seventeen, 11 July 2018
  • These large, colorful birds have feathery ear muffs and beards—even the females have beards.
    — National Geographic, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Onion and garlic skins, potato peels, the green, feathery tops of carrots and so much more.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Again, the smoke tree blooms are like feathery, fuzzy flowers and look like a beautiful cloud of smoke.
    — oregonlive, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Maitake mushrooms, also called hen of the woods, look like feathery petals growing off a thick trunk-like stem.
    — Casey Barber, CNN, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Below, take a peek at a few of the best brown mascaras for fluttery, feathery lashes.
    — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Plop a jet-black feathery frond into a pot of orchids as seen here by Metaflora.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2018
  • Golden as sunbeams and almost as light and feathery as goose down, a good panettone is hard to find.
    — Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2021
  • Her latest craze is the rosy maple moth that’s all decked out in cotton candy pink and feathery feelers.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2021
  • The saint, wrapped in a black cloak or shroud, floats on the river’s surface, his body lapped by little feathery waves.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 10 May 2018
  • The Lash Paradise has a full lash fringe that has a feathery soft wavy brush that doesn’t flake or smudge.
    — Daisy Maldonado, SELF, 13 Sep. 2022
  • But the bounce has started to return, and so has the confidence to cut and sprint and rise for feathery jumpers.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Chickpea plants can grow to about 2-feet tall, with small, feathery leaves and white or reddish blue flowers.
    — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Layer avocado toast with a feathery pile of frisée to take it to new heights, in every sense of the word.
    — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Actress and writer Tina Fey turned heads in a glamorous and feathery gown.
    — Carolina Gonzales, Houston Chronicle, 10 June 2018
  • Opt for a flexible and feathery tool, like the Surrat Cheek brush.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Lauderdale, Fox wore a pair of pink cargo pants, a teeny-tiny pink bra top and a feathery pink bucket hat.
    — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2022

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