How to Use plumage in a Sentence

plumage

noun

• The peacock has colorful plumage.
• Its plumage thus would have been black, with the same shiny sheen as a crow's.
  — Jakob Vinther, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2017
• In two places, the bird had pure white feathers among the scaled gray plumage.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2021
• The ptarmigan are white; their plumage is controlled by the length of the day, not cold.
  — John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Oct. 2017
• Its plumage isn’t the flashiest, and its song isn’t the most elaborate.
  — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2023
• Trees still remain with full green plumage even near the blast.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2021
• Using his tongue, the parrot holds the small stone in place to preen his plumage.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2021
• Green plumage, the color of Islam, fluttered in the air.
  — Mehdi Fattahi, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2022
• The male’s black-and-white plumage can seem more constrained, like a tuxedo.
  — National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2020
• They had been brought from the south, and were fine adult birds in excellent plumage.
  — Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2013
• The vivid-hued plumage blew in every direction in the wind.
  — Janice Wald Henderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2023
• At one point his face was obscured by the red plumage atop his aunt Princess Anne’s hat.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
• The birds are in their breeding plumage and are often singing to attract a mate.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2024
• The change in plumage from a drab olive color in the winter to bright yellow in the summer is a sight to see.
  — John Heasly, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
• Its black plumage is striking against its deep red bill.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2022
• The brown booby is a large warm-water species with brown plumage and a white belly.
  — Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• Puffs of the music’s emotional plumage can stay lodged in your head for years.
  — Mina Tavakoli, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
• Black vultures sport dark, black-and-gray plumage with a bald, grayish-black head.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• The male reared his head toward the fledgling, the breeze gently tugging at their plumage.
  — Alexander Aciman, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
• The males are unmistakable with their black, white and rose plumage.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 Apr. 2018
• Bald eagles attain full adult plumage in their fourth or fifth year and can live for decades.
  — Barry Amundson, Twin Cities, 9 Mar. 2017
• Sometimes, the bird’s plumage ignites, and it may be left suffering on the ground.
  — Carolyn Wilke, New York Times, 29 June 2022
• The birds have white plumage, often with black barring, and yellow eyes.
  — Fox News, 4 July 2018
• Anti-plumage campaigns at the turn of the 20th century stopped that.
  — Nina Burleigh, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2020
• The monkeys stare out as if caught by surprise, as does a bird with turquoise, crimson and gray plumage.
  — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2022
• And for some species, male and female plumage is identical to the human eye.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
• Their bodies were still snow white, but their necks were beginning to show the first brown of spring plumage.
  — Seth Kantner, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2023
• The fossil shows that a feather of the mystery fossil’s size and shape would have fit into the wing’s plumage.
  — Ryan Carney, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2020
• The variety of plumage these meat-eaters sported was large.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
• But in the coming months, his baby feathers will be replaced by black, white and orange plumage.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024