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Two tall sandhill crane parents strutted through the marsh, their downy red colt toddling behind them.—Anne Readel, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 June 2025 Plants produce a basal rosette of downy foliage in their first year and flower in the second season, after which the plants typically die out.—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 29 Mar. 2025 Reviled as rats with wings or, by a slimmer margin, beloved as downy, dirty urban icons, pigeons seem as much a part of New York as its skyline.—Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 3 May 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for downy
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