How to Use fowl in a Sentence

fowl

noun

• I spotted a long-legged fowl by the water's edge.
• The next pitch was singled to right field where the fowl watched the fair ball fly by.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
• But if the concept fails to fake flight, well, no harm, no … fowl.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2022
• In the field around us grew a grassy fern known as fowl mannagrass.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2018
• Don't cry fowl if you get burned by Dave's Hot Chicken.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• The bailiff didn’t hear the fowl the first day, according to court documents.
  — Adam Nossiter, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
• These take the guesswork out of cooking the perfect steak, roast, sausage, or fowl.
  — Brad Fenson, Field & Stream, 8 June 2023
• That includes what many consider the foulest fowl on the earth, the black vulture.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• For this was on Saint Valentine’s day, / When every fowl comes there his mate to take.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 11 Jan. 2023
• The homeowners’ chickens and other fowl died in the fire.
  — Elise Takahama, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2018
• Joyous shouts were heard as villagers dashed and splashed around in the water, trying to catch the fowl.
  — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2023
• When the cannon fired, in the pups plunged, struggling adorably to return the dummy fowl to their owners.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2021
• There was a Sue Bird in the comments, and a flagrant fowl reference as well.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 19 May 2020
• She and some of her neighbors complained that the dead fowl had remained there so long after the fire.
  — Serena O'Sullivan, azcentral, 10 July 2019
• Over the decades, the aviary has been home to birds from all over the world as well as housing more run-of-the-mill fowl like pigeons, turkeys and quail.
  — Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2023
• The notion that the primary value of the fish of the sea and the fowl of the air is as utilities pervades many books of this type.
  — Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023
• Feed for the fowl will also have to be stored in a secured, sealed container.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2019
• The custom still takes place each July, although now only to count the fowl and check their health.
  — Amy Crawford, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
• All the summer there was no want; and now began to come in store of fowl, as winter approached...
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
• Some residents had asked that goose/duck crossing signs be placed on the road to slow down the motorists and keep the fowl from harm.
  — Karen Caffarini, Post-Tribune, 6 June 2019
• Bantam is a term used for many kinds of small fowl; a banty egg weighs roughly an ounce.
  — Tim Neville, Outside Online, 8 July 2021
• But the pro-chicken side says the fowl make less noise than crying children and barking dogs.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
• The wild boars fled for higher ground, replaced by water fowl.
  — Lori Hinnant and Vasilisa Stepanenko, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023
• League staff members have bestowed upon the fowl the name of Henny Penny, said the league.
  — Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2022
• Last week, after five hours spent waiting, Black was able to photograph the one-of-a-kind fowl.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 23 Feb. 2018
• All kinds of water fowl go there: hawks and canvasback ducks.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 2 Dec. 2021
• There are large species of shorebirds and other water fowl.
  — Bill Van Niekerken, SFChronicle.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• The result of New Zealand’s Bird of the Year contest has some critics crying fowl.
  — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2021
• According to colonist Edward Winslow, who wrote about the 1621 event, hunters were dispatched to catch fowl for the banquet.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2022
• David Peralta lifted a towering fly ball down the left-field line in fowl, er, foul territory Wednesday against the Detroit Tigers that nearly struck a duck.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024