How to Use pheasant in a Sentence
pheasant
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The restaurant has stuffed pheasant on the wall, not the menu.
— Jennifer McClellan, azcentral, 7 June 2018 -
Eat it on a stump in the grouse woods or with your back against a fence in a pheasant field.
— The Editors, Field & Stream, 23 Nov. 2023 -
Kate saves the day by popping up to shoot a pheasant and walk with Roald back to the house.
— Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2023 -
The Beretta is for clays, ducks, pheasants, and turkeys.
— Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 13 Apr. 2020 -
The show, which rotates from city to city in the pheasant and quail range, is a bird hunter’s dream world.
— Brent Frazee, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024 -
More tellingly still, on the block in front of me are half a dozen dead pheasants.
— Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024 -
The bar is cozy on the inside with a taxidermy pheasant and a deer head mounted on the wall.
— Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023 -
When a broker took them to the land, a three-mile drive north, pheasants scattered.
— Curbed, 15 Dec. 2023 -
Then Mac released the pheasant, which tumbled down the hill.
— Field & Stream, 31 Dec. 2020 -
As pheasant season wears on, birds learn to avoid hunters.
— Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 3 Jan. 2024 -
But my two favorites are the mallard and pheasant from Duck Camp.
— The Editors, Field & Stream, 24 May 2023 -
The one where girls in my town were fish that fill a manmade lake, or fair chase pheasants set loose in the forest.
— Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2018 -
The ring-necked pheasant flapped out of the marsh in the bright morning sun, then glided and set down perhaps 300 yards away.
— Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2018 -
What does that mean for people like your pheasant farmer?
— Time, 14 Apr. 2020 -
Two slices of ham form a neck, while a pheasant and a mallard stand in for a shoulder that leads us to sausage fingers.
— Natasha Gural, Forbes, 24 June 2022 -
By the end of next year, Li plans on opening a pheasant hunting park and clay shooting range.
— Laurel Chor, Quartz, 8 July 2019 -
It can be found in ducks, pheasants and other creatures.
— James Gorman, New York Times, 29 May 2017 -
Nutty wild rice goes well with pheasant, and the sweetness of the grapes is a pleasant contrast to the birds’ gaminess.
— Taryn White, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023 -
The 2,260 pheasants planned for release this week is similar to what was stocked at this time last year.
— Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2019 -
Per her book, Noem had intended to train Cricket to hunt pheasant, a type of bird.
— Anna Gordon, TIME, 16 May 2024 -
There are also a duck, a squirrel and a hawk-pheasant combo.
— Lainey Seyler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2018 -
In terms of flight, the pheasant most closely matches this dinosaur, the study suggests.
— Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2018 -
The nearby Lake Thompson is the largest glacial lake in the state and a great spot for fishing, not to mention pheasant hunting.
— Lauren Johnson and Jesse Sparks, Smithsonian, 3 May 2017 -
The nearby Lake Thompson is the largest glacial lake in the state and a great spot for fishing, not to mention pheasant hunting.
— Lauren Johnson and Jesse Sparks, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017 -
The ducks and geese don’t migrate in droves anymore during the fall, and killing a wild pheasant is tougher than my mom’s meatloaf.
— Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2020 -
The bowties are made from pheasant, guinea, rooster, goose and other fowl feathers.
— Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 13 Apr. 2018 -
When hunting pheasants during the late season, keep a close eye on the cover.
— Jarrod Spilger, Field & Stream, 23 Dec. 2019 -
His grandmother kept pheasants and taught him how to skin a rabbit.
— Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 22 Jan. 2013 -
Bones offers a hearty list of steak and chop cuts, including a Mixed Grill that gives you a sampling of filet mignon, lamb, and pheasant sausage.
— Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024 -
Why shoot down a pheasant with an arrow when a falcon is eager to do your bidding?
— Jesse Raub, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2024
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