featherless

How To Use featherless In A Sentence

• To define man as a mammiferous animal having two hands, or as a featherless biped, we feel to be absurd and incongruous, since there is no reference to the most salient characteristic of man, namely, his rationality. Deductive Logic
• On Friday night in Venice Beach, a featherless and freshly-hatched bird twitched sadly on the concrete sidewalk. Layla Revis: Mrs. Fix It
• He was an executive at an important film company who, when faced with a featherless hatchling, felt his heart go soft for the first time in weeks, maybe even months. Layla Revis: Mrs. Fix It
• It was featherless, but stood a foot tall on spindly jointed legs; its face was avian but - like the body - fat and dotted with patchy, moulting orange fur.
• It was featherless, but stood a foot tall on spindly jointed legs; its face was avian but - like the body - fat and dotted with patchy, moulting orange fur.
• Diogenes famously joked that if humans are a featherless biped, then a plucked chicken is human. Matthew Yglesias » Kathryn Jean-Lopez and Rush Limbaugh Are Not Very Intelligent
• Of course there's a beard on old toms, their heads are featherless whereas a hen's head has feathers up the back. QUIZ...
• It had limbs like featherless wings on its shoulder blades.
• Because of their ill-judged moulting they are quite featherless. CHAPTER XXXVI
• When the chicks hatch, their thin, featherless skin is extremely vulnerable to the direct rays of the sun.