How to Use marabou in a Sentence

marabou

noun

• On the windowsill farthest from his desk is a stuffed marabou.
  — David Samuels, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2008
• Bonus points for the pink marabou feathers, which were pinned at the crown of her sky-high bouffant.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2018
• Heaven is a mountaintop in the Swiss Alps with a bouclé tailleur and a marabou cape.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2019
• Maye Musk wore a loose, green patterned dress around which spiraled a line of blue marabou from its hem to her wrists.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 6 July 2018
• Daria [Werbowy] had to hold the carcass of a marabou stork twice her size that had been dead for over a week in her hands next to her naked body.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Nov. 2011
• A week ago, said Moore, black marabou jigs with green, chartreuse or orange heads were the best at luring trout to bite.
  — cleveland, 21 Jan. 2021
• Drifting night crawlers has been good in main channel, along with sculpin/ginger marabou jigs.
  — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star tyler Mahoney,, kansascity, 11 Apr. 2018
• With strong fabric glue, attach some wide black grosgrain ribbon for the handle, and a strip of marabou or feather boa for the cuff.
  — Michele Filon, Woman's Day, 9 Sep. 2019
• Not to be outdone, Ms. Ross—who switched looks at least five times that evening—finished off the night with her own version of brightly colored marabou.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2019
• Breckenridge, with his glasses perched on the tip of his nose, ties flies to match the colors of the fall — deep red marabou streamers and bright orange shrimp patterns.
  — Monte Burke, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2017
• Vultures and marabou storks, flying in from more than 100 kilometers away, roost among the dead and eat up to 9 percent of the wildebeest nutrients.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 19 June 2017
• Michi wears Gucci Lurex sweater, $1,500 at gucci.com; Erdem marabou coat, price upon request.
  — Véronique Hyland, The Cut, 30 June 2017
• Style and stardom collided in a conflagration of marabou, lace and lamé bathed in pink and purple marquee lights.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• Last week anglers had success throwing dark-colored marabou jigs from shore, catching browns to 6 pounds and plenty of rainbows.
  — sacbee, 18 Dec. 2017
• That tee is available on his site now, for $225, alongside a beige dress trimmed in pink marabou with an illustration of a man and a woman in—uh, how to say this delicately?
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2018
• Other videos and images of the collection released seem to imply more of the same, like a video of a model in a white lace crewneck top or another in a pink top lined in marabou feathers.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2018
• Fishermen are casting spoons and spinners and hooking trout, and working dime-sized spawn bags under a float, as well as small, black marabou jigs tipped with maggots and waxworms.
  — cleveland, 4 Nov. 2021
• The pulsating motion of the turkey marabou in the water also makes the pattern extremely effective.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2018
• Some anglers prefer to tip dressed jigs of marabou or synthetic materials with a minnow.
  — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 4 Mar. 2020
• It is made almost entirely of supple marabou and therefore moves beautifully in the water.
  — Field & Stream, 13 Oct. 2020
• My favorite species of bird is the marabou stork, a grandfatherly looking bird with a mostly featherless head and an obscene appendage hanging from its neck.
  — Susan Matthews, Slate Magazine, 13 Feb. 2017
• Here’s Cardi, wearing something like a pink marabou stole, or perhaps the pelt of Big Bird’s fuchsia cousin, while purporting to fly private—like, as the lone passenger on a jet—in search of unsigned talents.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2019
• Photographers from some of our favorite blogs prowled the aisles snapping shots of a male couple in matching pressed-velvet blazers and Amy Fine Collins in a fetching gray marabou feather jacket.
  — Micaela English, Town & Country, 6 Feb. 2013
• My earliest beauty memory of her is seeing her red lipstick tube and powder with white marabou feathers ‎overflowing from the jar on her vanity.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 11 May 2019
• His coats are a patchwork of fabrics and colors; his dresses are adorned with the artful compositions of the Japanese ceramist Takuro Kuwata; marabou hats fluttered as models walked.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2020
• His mother Gloria sported a black dress, burgundy velvet short sleeve coat with green and multicolor marabou trim on the shoulder pads, and a giant pair of sparkling aviator sunglasses.
  — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Jan. 2019
• Dressed in Gucci’s sparkles and marabou and velvet, regular people, too, have the capacity to deliver fashion that is transporting.
  — Washington Post, 12 May 2021
• Embellished with marabou feathers, her pink mini dress was suitably festive, while offering a different take on dressing for an event where less is usually more.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2019
• At times The Photograph feels like a modern version of a ‘30s Hollywood romance, where the heroine might live unapologetically in an all-white art deco apartment and wear marabou slippers while lounging.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 14 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 14 Aug 2024