Use "feathering" in a sentence

1. This particular night, they seemed to have swallowed the Earth, their shimmering image reflected from a thin film of water left by the final feathering nudges of waves

2. Breeding closely related parents can concentrate defects (poor feathering, deformities, and poor personalities) in a line and reduce the reproductive success of the parents

3. It was cash that his country desperately needed, and for any man to make a priority of feathering his own nest when the people he led were in such dire straights was something that Robin could not understand or forgive

4. The coterie of Ministers, who had so skilfully been feathering their own nests for so long, was now clearly rattled by the turn of events

5. She pumped her wings until the speed was too great and then she folded them in, feathering just enough to guide her plunge

6. The birds can have deep red, rich brown, startling white, or shiny and black feathering

7. The horse having reached the end of his tether, so to speak, halted and, rearing high a proud feathering tail, added his quota by letting fall on the floor which the brush would soon brush up and polish, three smoking globes of turds

8. On the morning of his fourth day trapped beneath whatever is left of the Hotel of Bees, Werner is listening to the repaired transceiver, feathering the tuning knob back and forth, when a girl’s voice says directly into his good ear: At three in the morning I was awakened by a violent blow

9. It is unknown if he or anyone else specified which engine needed feathering

10. On the control panel, there were four feathering buttons, one for each engine, covered by a plastic shield

11. As the men behind the cockpit fled toward the comparative safety of the waist and rear of the plane, one man, almost certainly the engineer who had hit the wrong feathering button, apparently stayed in front

12. In a few months, a few years, they could travel anywhere, for the speed of their rocket was the speed of a god, and now for the ten-thousandth time one of the rockets of the far-circling hunt was feathering down toward an alien world

13. But these were broken again by the light toes of hundreds of gay fowl softly feathering the sea, alternate with their fitful flight; and like to some flag-staff rising from the painted hull of an argosy, the tall but shattered pole of a recent lance projected from the white whale's back; and at intervals one of the cloud of soft-toed fowls hovering, and to and fro skimming like a canopy over the fish, silently perched and rocked on this pole, the long tail feathers streaming like pennons