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Example sentences for "whiskers"

Lexicographically close words:
whisht; whisk; whisked; whisker; whiskered; whiskey; whiskies; whisking; whisks; whisky
  1. She wished with passionate fierceness that she could dye his hair to match his whiskers or his whiskers to match his hair.

  2. She'd show this Shreik Amut with the molasses taffy hair and licorice whiskers a thing or two!

  3. She smoothed back the fair hair that had been so strange to her in company with the jet whiskers that once he had worn.

  4. His whiskers were black, his face was really red, not brown as she saw because he had brushed some of the dust off, whilst his head hair was some kind of color or other.

  5. The yellow hair and the black whiskers are noticeably incompatible, don't you think?

  6. In passing, he looked at Ben, and his lips were pressed together above the edge of his whiskers until his mouth formed a thin, hard line.

  7. Speaking with perfect gravity, and with no whiskers to stroke, he said: "I have once tried the waters here out of curiosity.

  8. Mark my words, there'll be wind enough to take the curl out of the Captain's whiskers before we are many days older!

  9. His whiskers had been filed an' his hair cut, an' he was dhressed up to kill.

  10. He had whiskers on him like thim on a cokynut, an' I heerd he swore an oath niver to get shaved till he killed a man that wore a stove-pipe hat.

  11. Poor Mr. Percival had pulled his whiskers throughout the debate, and now sighed as he bit them.

  12. I really felt my whole frame swelling with pride; every hair in my whiskers quivered!

  13. Not bad at all," said I, dipping my whiskers carefully into a bowl that had been set aside by the cook.

  14. Whatever my brother may think of it," observed Wisky, dipping his whiskers into the nearly empty plate, "he is now tasting that which forms the principal article of food of forty millions of human beings!

  15. They were not much more than half my size, had pointed heads, very short tails, and whiskers uncommonly long.

  16. Glad to hear it," said I; "you know that I am curious about dishes, and should like to have my whiskers in a new one.

  17. We were in the midst of our feast, our mouths full, and our whiskers merrily wagging, when we were startled by a faint noise at the kitchen door.

  18. A ferocious-looking moustache and whiskers will greatly add to his appearance.

  19. His face above his straggly whiskers was red with temper and with liquor.

  20. Cassius Poindexter opened the street door and started in; but at the sight of so much company he checked himself on the threshold, combed back his side whiskers nervously, bowed dumbly and withdrew, closing the door softly behind him.

  21. He pitched forward and outward upon his face with his whiskers flattening in the street.

  22. Only in this supreme matter of cricket he had been nervous, for his father--in Crimean whiskers then--had ever impressed him as the beau ideal.

  23. The rat at their wedding in Cape Colony, which had cleaned its whiskers behind the table at the Registrar's!

  24. He had long forgotten how he had hovered, lanky and pale, in side whiskers of chestnut hue, round Emily, in the days of his own courtship.

  25. Sir James had small grey whiskers and a carved, keen visage.

  26. Those little whiskers seemed to Gyp awful--indeed, he seemed rather awful altogether--but his playing stirred and swept her in the most uncanny way.

  27. And he smiled at the thought of his elder brother, whose burnt face and fierce grey whiskers somewhat recalled a Bengal tiger; the kindest fellow that ever breathed!

  28. James looked up; his long white whiskers quivered, his thin throat between the points of his collar looked very gristly and naked.

  29. That long, loping, wolfish fiddling fellow with the broad cheekbones and little side-whiskers (Good God!

  30. Rosy-gilled, with fat close-clipped grey whiskers and inscrutably pursed lips, it presided high up in the easterly air like an emblem of the feudal system.

  31. Ten minutes later came an elderly gentleman in a white tie, and with grey whiskers well trimmed.

  32. The shoulders, chest, and belly, and the inside of the limbs and feet dark brown; eyebrows and whiskers pale grey.

  33. The whiskers are short and black, the body more slender, longer, and entirely white.

  34. Whiskers rather long, directed backwards and outwards, hiding the ears in front.

  35. In this section of the Guenons, the fur is more or less olive-green above; the under side and whiskers white, and the arms and legs grey.

  36. In vain its poor, inexperienced papa kissed it, scratching its little velvet face with his rough whiskers the while!

  37. His complexion was swarthy and his hair and whiskers were as black as midnight, but for all that he had been a very handsome man.

  38. The long silken whiskers which fell down upon his breast might cover up the expression of the lower part of his countenance, but they could not conceal the merry twinkle of the mild blue eyes which had looked at Tom for a moment.

  39. His name was Sandy; I never heard him called by any other name, and if his pluck only equalled his red hair and whiskers he certainly had lots of it.

  40. He was clean-shaven, except for those frustrated whiskers once sacred to stage butlers, but latterly adopted as the sigil of the New Bohemia.

  41. My nightly prayer is that he may find the courage to shave his side-whiskers and renounce the passionate life--a second Plato burning his poems.

  42. It is in April that the old barbones attain their full glory and pride of sexual estate--resplendent in fierce whiskers and gorgeous chestnut ruffs all distended with the seasonal condition.

  43. In a late number, the ambition for whiskers was made the subject of a remark.

  44. She has long whiskers and a bushy white tail," she read with a tone of amusement that exasperated the twins, though they could not explain to themselves why.

  45. For one thing (would Kate assure them), she could imitate Wully Oliver till you almost saw whiskers on her and could smell the dram.

  46. The picture was skewed at such an angle the whiskers appeared to be growing out into space sidewise.

  47. He was a minister from a city in southern California but he didn't look it now, what with a four-days' growth of stubbly red whiskers on his weatherbeaten chops and grease spots on his service uniform.

  48. Then there was Mr. Pike, the lumber king, from Prairie du Chien, who stroked his whiskers when he talked to me and looked me over from head to toe as if calculating the amount of good timber in me.

  49. The farmer-folk in field and dooryard waved their hands and stirred their whiskers as we passed.

  50. Or the hay and whiskers and the restful spirit beneath them," I suggested.

  51. He was strikingly handsome, and wore immense black whiskers but no mustache, and had a most magnificent double row of white, pearly teeth, which he showed very much when he smiled, and he smiled very often.

  52. Next to Julia sat Captain Reece, romantic and handsome as ever, with manly love and devotion expressed in every line of his face, every movement of his body; and the heaviest mustache and the most beautiful brown whiskers in the world.

  53. The train in one hand and stroking his side-whiskers with the other, he was writhing about like a prima donna in her big scene and singing in a falsetto soprano voice.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whiskers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beard; beaver; bristle; down; imperial; stubble; tuft