feathery

How To Use feathery In A Sentence

• A half-hardy annual, this variety produces tall stems topped with feathery pure-white flowers. Times, Sunday Times
• I felt that weird shifting movement and a feathery light object grazed my bare skin.
• Our socks and finnesko, hung out to dry, were covered with most beautiful feathery crystals. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
• This erect perennial has deeply cut, feathery foliage. The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home
• Even the bill seems edible: it arrives laid out on a teak tray, meticulously hand-written on feathery rice paper, accompanied by two perfect tangerines.
• Along the path there were fascinating details, composed of the manifold greenery which revels in damp heat, ferns, mosses, confervae, fungi, trailers, shading tiny rills which dropped down into grottoes feathery with the exquisite Trichomanes radicans, or drooped over the rustic path and hung into the river, and overhead the finely incised and almost feathery foliage of several varieties of maple admitted the light only as a green mist. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
• Red kites were hunting on the heights, their outstretched wings fluttering long feathery fingers. Times, Sunday Times
• The female swimmerets are slightly larger and more feathery with tiny hairs, while the tail itself is often larger and more pliable to accommodate the eggs.
• The whale raised its nose toward me, and I could see barnacles on it, with their feathery legs straining the water.
• This is a pure stand of baldcypress, their funny knees like stunted growth reaching up three or four feet, and then perhaps breaking into feathery needles.