How to Use pheasant in a Sentence

pheasant

noun
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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
  • 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, 2 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, 3 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
  • Your best bet for catching one is to find a deep pool and fish along the bottom with a pheasant tail, hare’s ear or prince nymph pattern.
    — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Late-season pheasants will seek out heavy cover to stay warm.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Brave the Wetlands Cold weather drives pheasants into heavy cover.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 3 Jan. 2024

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