How to Use pheasant in a Sentence

pheasant

noun
  • Walz was never able to shoot or even find any pheasant.
    — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The restaurant has stuffed pheasant on the wall, not the menu.
    — Jennifer McClellan, azcentral, 7 June 2018
  • Eat it on a stump in the grouse woods or with your back against a fence in a pheasant field.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 23 Nov. 2023
  • More tellingly still, on the block in front of me are half a dozen dead pheasants.
    — Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The pheasant dropped, and our Lab retrieved it.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Late-season pheasants will seek out heavy cover to stay warm.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Both male and female silver pheasants have red faces and red legs.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 9 Mar. 2026
  • When a broker took them to the land, a three-mile drive north, pheasants scattered.
    — Curbed, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The show, which rotates from city to city in the pheasant and quail range, is a bird hunter’s dream world.
    — Brent Frazee, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Kate saves the day by popping up to shoot a pheasant and walk with Roald back to the house.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • His grandmother kept pheasants and taught him how to skin a rabbit.
    — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 22 Jan. 2013
  • In one study, pheasants did better on a learning task when housed in larger groups.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The bar is cozy on the inside with a taxidermy pheasant and a deer head mounted on the wall.
    — Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The pheasant dropped and Tuco, not quite two years old, took off after it.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Pylkkänen, who hunts for pheasant, roe deer, and much else, served me grouse carpaccio with wild rowan berries.
    — Boris Fishman, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The one where girls in my town were fish that fill a manmade lake, or fair chase pheasants set loose in the forest.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2018
  • While mostly ground-dwelling, pheasants will perch up high to escape predators.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The bowties are made from pheasant, guinea, rooster, goose and other fowl feathers.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Why shoot down a pheasant with an arrow when a falcon is eager to do your bidding?
    — Jesse Raub, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2024
  • But my two favorites are the mallard and pheasant from Duck Camp.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 24 May 2023
  • When hunting pheasants during the late season, keep a close eye on the cover.
    — Jarrod Spilger, Field & Stream, 23 Dec. 2019
  • The heads of juvenile pheasants cool down in preparation for a fight, then heat up again.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Chief among those is a hood ornament that depicts a Labrador with a pheasant in its mouth.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Two slices of ham form a neck, while a pheasant and a mallard stand in for a shoulder that leads us to sausage fingers.
    — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • Even the taxidermy pheasant and fish there were sporting tiny Santa hats.
    — Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 26 Nov. 2025
  • By the end of next year, Li plans on opening a pheasant hunting park and clay shooting range.
    — Laurel Chor, Quartz, 8 July 2019
  • In terms of flight, the pheasant most closely matches this dinosaur, the study suggests.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Silver pheasants are also known to be gentle-natured and tame.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Both male and female silver pheasants have red faces and legs and are known for their gentle, tame nature.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Martha now has 11 pheasants on her farm; 10 of which are golden pheasants.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 9 Mar. 2026

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