Examples of downy in a Sentence

the downy surface of a ripe peach

Recent Examples on the Web Keep things interesting with a variety of downy cashmere and wool beanies in every shade of the rainbow. — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 4 Dec. 2021 The video, captured Saturday at Taiaroa Head near the city of Dunedin on New Zealand's South Island, shows a downy six-week-old albatross chick chirping at an incoming adult, who is trying to time its landing. — Eoin Mcsweeney, CNN, 9 Mar. 2021 Here, the black centers on the anemone pops and the white protea looks almost downy. — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 12 Feb. 2020 Tomentosum has large, downy peppermint-smelling leaves and tiny white flowers. — New York Times, 28 July 2021 Indeed, less than an hour after the cicadas have begun their crawl up the big maple, a pair of downy woodpeckers, several tree sparrows, and a crow swoop in and start to feast on the smorgasbord. — Eric Niiler, Wired, 21 May 2021 The images are a crisp black-and-white, each downy strand of fuzz on each piglet rendered hyper-real and sharp. — BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2021 Both the distal tips and the quills at the base are typically overwrapped during the weaving process, with the downy portions exposed. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2020 Other North American woodpeckers that cache are downy, red-headed, hairy, Lewis, red-bellied, gila, golden-fronted and red-bellied sapsucker. — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020 See More

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