How To Use Featherless In A Sentence
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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
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On Friday night in Venice Beach, a featherless and freshly-hatched bird twitched sadly on the concrete sidewalk.
Layla Revis: Mrs. Fix It
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Of course there's a beard on old toms, their heads are featherless whereas a hen's head has feathers up the back.
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It had limbs like featherless wings on its shoulder blades.
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Because of their ill-judged moulting they are quite featherless.
CHAPTER XXXVI
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When the chicks hatch, their thin, featherless skin is extremely vulnerable to the direct rays of the sun.
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After all, the defining human characteristic is not compassion or the ability to walk upright or our vague mistrust of the Prudential lady or even the notion that we are featherless bipeds possessing a soul.
Cell phones alter brain activity? Of course!
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This was how, he believed, lungs originally arose in a lungless world, and feathers in a featherless one.
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Certainly, the cassowary's clawed wings, scaly legs, featherless heads, wrinkled necks, and large size give them a dinosaur-like appearance.
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And the chickens, featherless but indomitable, were enjoying the milder weather as they pecked at the grain and grits which the steward had just placed in their feeding-trough.
CHAPTER XLII
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The quaint grossbeak, the ugly heron, the dirty-black buzzard, the hideous water-goose, with his featherless body and satiric head, start up from their nooks as you enter; the water moccasin slides warily into the slime; and if you see a sudden movement in the centre of a leaden-colored mass, with a flash or two of white in it, you will do well to beware, for half a dozen alligators may show themselves at home there.
The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
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The just-hatched cuckoo, still blind and featherless, has a special hollow like a dimple on its back, so that it can hump out of the nest, one by one, its companion fledglings.
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He looked tiny now, like a little featherless bird fallen from the nest.
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She had the round, bright eyes of a bird, and her scapulae were prominent beneath her blouse like featherless, folded wings.
LIGHT FINGERS
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Go buy an art poster if you must, but don't encourage the abuse of featherless battery hens that pop out countless empty blobs of colored mud parading as art.
January 2009
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a featherless biped
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Using artificial insemination, they propagated offspring that would produce both feathered and featherless broilers that would grow to comparable size in the same length of time.
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On the other hand, featherless chickens tend to be more susceptible to parasites and other problems and, in previous attempts to create featherless chickens, the males have been unable to mate.
