feathering

present participle of feather

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for feathering
Verb
  • The challenge is less about pulling people off the street and more about improving the quality and capacity of training and integration of Ukrainian infantry into combat brigades.
    Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2025
  • After pulling between your teeth to enjoy, the pods are discarded.
    Tammy Algood, Southern Kitchen, 11 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • As the sun has grown subtly brighter over this span, if this supercontinent struggled with high carbon dioxide levels like its Pangaean forebear did, then this would be an inimically hot world to animals, except for lone refuges fringing its polar far reaches.
    Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The islands that became the Outer Banks fringing the North Carolina coast first appeared 15,000 years ago, when sea levels dropped and the nation’s shoreline migrated inward from the continental shelf, Young said.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Someone’s braiding a piece of Shannon’s hair when a barrette falls out and onto the floor beneath the table.
    Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • And as founders of Freedom Braiders, my daughter and I lead programs that teach the art of hair braiding and offer cognitive behavior classes in jails.
    Joanna Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But by embroidering the drama of an American navigating Paris Fashion Week with stories of other women caught in the whirl, Winocour dilutes them all.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • During the emotional moment, Parsons was easy to see on the field, on both knees, looking deep in prayer with his head hanging down and his eyes closed.
    Anne Erickson, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2025
  • With its numerous terraces and hanging gardens, the house flows organically down the slope to the scenic Pittwater waterway, creating a perfect harmony with the surrounding mature trees and natural shrubbery.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 11 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Though the Raptors must develop players behind and in support of their stars, this version of the team doesn’t work without those stars figuring this out.
    Eric Koreen, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Two returnees figuring prominently in the rotation are juniors Aidan Burke (a 6-3 guard) and Cade Pendleton (a 6-10 forward).
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • In one incident, video obtained by FOX News shows two masked men holding handguns chasing a screaming resident around his house.
    Landon Mion , Brooke Taylor, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Fátima Bosch grew up in Santiago de Teapa, Tabasco, and has been chasing her pageant dreams for years.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • One is that there’s this centaur — half-horse, half-me — painting in my apartment.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Spanberger’s campaign had looped the clip in a string of attack ads painting her as combative and unprepared.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Feathering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feathering. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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