How to Use marabou in a Sentence

marabou

noun
  • Bonus points for the pink marabou feathers, which were pinned at the crown of her sky-high bouffant.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2018
  • Her blond wig is piled sky-high, and her still-hourglass shape peeks through a marabou and chiffon peignoir.
    — Tony Bravo, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Drifting night crawlers has been good in main channel, along with sculpin/ginger marabou jigs.
    — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star tyler Mahoney,, kansascity, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Use marabou jigs, jigs tipped with one- to two-inch minnows and spoons for combing these deeper areas.
    — John Phillips, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
  • A week ago, said Moore, black marabou jigs with green, chartreuse or orange heads were the best at luring trout to bite.
    — cleveland, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Some anglers are choosing a black marabou jig tipped with live bait, a combination that will hook all three species of game fish.
    — cleveland, 5 May 2022
  • Daria [Werbowy] had to hold the carcass of a marabou stork twice her size that had been dead for over a week in her hands next to her naked body.
    — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Nov. 2011
  • With strong fabric glue, attach some wide black grosgrain ribbon for the handle, and a strip of marabou or feather boa for the cuff.
    — Michele Filon, Woman's Day, 9 Sep. 2019
  • So why for 90 years have murder and marabou been inextricably linked?
    — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Style and stardom collided in a conflagration of marabou, lace and lamé bathed in pink and purple marquee lights.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Some anglers prefer to tip dressed jigs of marabou or synthetic materials with a minnow.
    — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Add a horseback safari through the grounds to your itinerary to see llamas, colobus monkeys, marabou storks, zebras and peacocks.
    — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Breckenridge, with his glasses perched on the tip of his nose, ties flies to match the colors of the fall — deep red marabou streamers and bright orange shrimp patterns.
    — Monte Burke, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2017
  • It is made almost entirely of supple marabou and therefore moves beautifully in the water.
    — Field & Stream, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Who but Cher could entertain an audience in belly-baring halter tops or marabou feathers and sequins?
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 20 May 2021
  • My earliest beauty memory of her is seeing her red lipstick tube and powder with white marabou feathers ‎overflowing from the jar on her vanity.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 11 May 2019
  • Fishermen are casting spoons and spinners and hooking trout, and working dime-sized spawn bags under a float, as well as small, black marabou jigs tipped with maggots and waxworms.
    — cleveland, 4 Nov. 2021
  • My favorite species of bird is the marabou stork, a grandfatherly looking bird with a mostly featherless head and an obscene appendage hanging from its neck.
    — Susan Matthews, Slate Magazine, 13 Feb. 2017
  • The pulsating motion of the turkey marabou in the water also makes the pattern extremely effective.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Other videos and images of the collection released seem to imply more of the same, like a video of a model in a white lace crewneck top or another in a pink top lined in marabou feathers.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Vultures and marabou storks, flying in from more than 100 kilometers away, roost among the dead and eat up to 9 percent of the wildebeest nutrients.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 19 June 2017
  • While that makes the fishing difficult, the Rocky River is still open enough to catch some of the dynamic trout on a small fly or marabou jig tipped with maggots or waxworms.
    — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Embellished with marabou feathers, her pink mini dress was suitably festive, while offering a different take on dressing for an event where less is usually more.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2019
  • That tee is available on his site now, for $225, alongside a beige dress trimmed in pink marabou with an illustration of a man and a woman in—uh, how to say this delicately?
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2018
  • Monster bamboo, bougainvillea, and banana plants crashed in from the roadside; a tin roof sagged under the weight of a gaggle of marabou storks; baboons plundered trash cans at a highway intersection.
    — Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Laura Dern looks amazing in marabou feathers, Marissa Long stuns in sequins, and Chris Messina is also there.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 May 2026
  • Dressed in Gucci’s sparkles and marabou and velvet, regular people, too, have the capacity to deliver fashion that is transporting.
    — Washington Post, 12 May 2021
  • His mother Gloria sported a black dress, burgundy velvet short sleeve coat with green and multicolor marabou trim on the shoulder pads, and a giant pair of sparkling aviator sunglasses.
    — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Jan. 2019
  • The garment is associated with a distinctively feminine look, including accents such as lace, ruffles, appliques, marabou, bows and ribbons.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • His coats are a patchwork of fabrics and colors; his dresses are adorned with the artful compositions of the Japanese ceramist Takuro Kuwata; marabou hats fluttered as models walked.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2020

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