FUR in a Sentence

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The birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.

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 Meanings and Examples of FUR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fur
 n.  dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals
 n.  a garment made of the hairy coat of a mammal
Classic Sentence: (109 in 8 pages)
1  A breeze stirred the grey haze of Daisy's fur collar.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
2  Without further interruption, we reached the front office, where we found the clerk and the man in velveteen with the fur cap.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XX
3  Biddy," pursued Joe, "when I got home and asked her fur to write the message to you, a little hung back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVII
4  I've come to the old country fur to see my gentleman spend his money like a gentleman.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
5  My pleasure 'ull be fur to see him do it.'
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
6  Dear boy, I ain't come so fur, not fur to be low.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
7  I ain't made Pip a gentleman, and Pip ain't a going to make you a gentleman, not fur me not to know what's due to ye both.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLI
8  I am not a going fur to tell you my life like a song, or a story-book.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLII
9  He set up fur a gentleman, this Compeyson, and he'd been to a public boarding-school and had learning.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLII
10  Miss Sarah," said Joe, "she have twenty-five pound perannium fur to buy pills, on account of being bilious.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVII
11  "Which he warn't strong enough, my dear, fur to be surprised," said Joe.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVIII
12  Opposite me was an elderly lady in a great fur cloak, who looked in the dark more like a haystack than a lady, she was wrapped up to such a degree.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
13  It's getting late, my dear,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'and here's Ham come fur to take you home.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
14  'I shall be fur away,' he repeated slowly.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31. A GREATER LOSS
15  I have done what I thowt should be done, but I never looked fur any good to come of my stan'ning where I do.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  A sable is a small animal with beautiful dark fur.
2  The fur trade now exceeded timber in importance.
3  Our cat has glossy black fur.
4  The white fur of the polar bear is a natural camouflage.
5  This creature's fur is short, dense and silky.
6  In lapping up a fur, they always put the inner side outwards.
7  But I gave her a cold stare and fluffed my fur out.
8  Now it's time to store away your fur coats for the summer.
9  Cats make him sneeze - I think he's allergic to the fur.
10  To him a beaver is a quarter of a fur coat for his wife or a nice hat.
11  Her hat is made of at least one beaver pelt, I dislike this style, or any style of fur.
12  There's another sable, which is furry and related to martens, but I suppose fur trappers would be more interested in that.
13  A good tanner is a skilled laborer, and these Indians were not only expert makers of dressed leather, but they tanned skins and peltries with the hair or fur on.
14  The birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.
15  Tigers have orange fur with black stripes.