WHISKER in a Sentence

Learn WHISKER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

68 example sentences for WHISKER, such as:

1. The Communist candidate lost by a whisker.
2. The actor in role of an old man wears false whiskers.
3. Schmidt finished second, losing by a whisker in the final event.
4. Gradually, I became used to seeing the gentleman with the black whiskers.
5. The bird dog's nose twitches and his whiskers quiver as he strain eagerly against the leash.

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whisker
 n.  a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat
 v.  furnish with whiskers
Classic Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1  After that, he sat feeling his right-side flaxen curls and whisker, and following Mrs. Joe about with his blue eyes, as his manner always was at squally times.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
2  I morbidly represented to myself that if Joe knew it, I never afterwards could see him at the fireside feeling his fair whisker, without thinking that he was meditating on it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
3  Well," said Joe, passing the poker into his left hand, that he might feel his whisker; and I had no hope of him whenever he took to that placid occupation; "your sister's a master-mind.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
4  "And I ain't a master-mind," Joe resumed, when he had unfixed his look, and got back to his whisker.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
5  He had neither whisker nor moustache, which allowed the soft curves of the lower part of his face to be apparent.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
6  Yet his plump, healthy-looking cheeks were so robustly constituted, and contained such an abundance of recreative vigour, that a new whisker soon sprouted in place of the old one, and even surpassed its predecessor.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
7  He had a large watch-chain, and strong black dots where his beard and whiskers would have been if he had let them.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI
8  Gradually, I became used to seeing the gentleman with the black whiskers.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
9  His hair and whiskers were blacker and thicker, looked at so near, than even I had given them credit for being.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
10  The Captain himself was in the last extremity of shabbiness, with large whiskers, and an old, old brown great-coat with no other coat below it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
11  He was buttoned up, mighty trim and tight, and must have taken a great deal of pains with his whiskers, which were accurately curled.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
12  "Matvey, my sister Anna Arkadyevna will be here tomorrow," he said, checking for a minute the sleek, plump hand of the barber, cutting a pink path through his long, curly whiskers.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
13  He looked more robust, had let his whiskers grow, but was still the same graceful creature, whose face and figure were even more striking from their softness and nobility than their beauty.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 21
14  The scent of brilliantine on his whiskers struck him as particularly pleasant in the fresh air.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 22
15  His brilliant black eyes were looking straight at the excited country gentleman with gray whiskers, and apparently he derived amusement from his remarks.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
Example Sentence:
1  The Communist candidate lost by a whisker.
2  Schmidt finished second, losing by a whisker in the final event.
3  The bird dog's nose twitches and his whiskers quiver as he strain eagerly against the leash.
4  The actor in role of an old man wears false whiskers.