How to Use quill in a Sentence

quill

noun

• Place the bundle on top of the fly with the quill end over the hook eye.
  — Aleta Burchyski, Outside Online, 20 May 2020
• Then use shears to cut each quill about 1⁄2 inch up from the wing’s base [a].
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
• Think of Dickens and piles of foolscap and quill pens and Bob Cratchit.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 4 July 2019
• All of them are quill-like from base to tip and the arm feathers are just as long as the tail ones.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2010
• The quills are sold as is or ground into a fine powder.
  — Stacey Hugues, Verywell Health, 16 Aug. 2023
• The story starts with Matlack’s tools—a quill dipped in iron gall ink.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 3 July 2020
• So, the feather, which looks like a quill, is a sign that Penelope is the writer all along.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 22 Feb. 2021
• Cho also found that the barbs increase the force needed to remove the quill by four times.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2012
• Ripped apart like thick alabaster pages and bleeding like ink from a quill.
  — Halsey, Billboard, 20 June 2017
• For the vase: Carousel is a purple quill mum that can measure up to 4 inches across.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 9 July 2022
• The quill forms a few letters, then pauses and scratches them out.
  — Maia Silber, chicagotribune.com, 8 July 2017
• The rest of the body will look like it is covered in primitive, quill-like feathers.
  — Jordan C. Axelson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2017
• Awl with a man Artists would have used the tool to poke holes, embroider, make baskets and for quill work.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 4 Sep. 2019
• Pluck the small feathers from the underside of the wing to reveal the quills of the primary feathers.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
• And Penelope once again picks up her quill, despite Eloise's fury.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2023
• But those days seem as distant as when bills were written with quill pens.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023
• A doctor used a scalpel and a quill to take fluid from smallpox vesicles on the skin of a person in the throes of the disease.
  — Stephen Coss, Smithsonian, 24 Aug. 2017
• Dark wood desks were filled with letters ready to be mailed, addressed using quill and ink.
  — Willa Paskin, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2017
• Full-quill ostrich has a unique texture, known for being durable yet soft.
  — Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2023
• Even the cover image of a boy with a quill across his face adds to the ambiguity.
  — Diane Scharper, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• Porcupettes are born with soft quills that start to harden and sharpen over a few days.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2018
• For the vase: Carousel, a purple quill mum, is an elegant cut flower.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2018
• To create quills, frame the face by pressing toothpicks into the rind, leaving enough space for eyes.
  — Woman's Day Staff, Woman's Day, 25 July 2018
• In a study glowing with golden light, Christian Lee Cones sits at a writing desk, quill in hand.
  — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2022
• Hana has a habit of picking up feathers to give to the village chief, who makes them into quills to pluck at the strings of a harpsichord.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 4 Sep. 2023
• The floor was going to be like parchment paper, and there would be a huge quill that people could climb on, like a ship's ladder.
  — Devin Alessio, ELLE Decor, 11 June 2016
• The work shows a figure holding a quill in one hand and seeming to point with the other to a few lines of words inscribed in Latin on a creased sheet of paper.
  — Colin Moynihan, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• But the quills harden within minutes, according to the zoo.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
• The three quills are especially meaningful to Meghan, who at one time had a lifestyle blog, The Tig.
  — Erin Hill, PEOPLE.com, 25 May 2018
• Some boast tiger stripes or dorsal fins that resemble porcupine quills.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024