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Nests can take up to three months to build, and typically contain sticks, grass, moss, cornstalks, lichen, fine woody material, downy feathers and sometimes greenery.—Charna Flam, People.com, 1 May 2025 Instead, it was strangely decorated with long downy feathers—making the newborn bird look like a dangerous caterpillar.—Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 20 Mar. 2025 Its large, wall-size windows, their casements painted a downy shade of white, look out across Bedford Street onto a row of old and characterful brownstones, including number 75½, whose façade, at nine and a half feet across, is allegedly the city’s narrowest (and therefore most charming).—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2025 Instead, it was strangely decorated with long downy feathers—making the newborn bird look like a dangerous caterpillar.—Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 20 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for downy
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