How to Use pheasant in a Sentence

pheasant

noun

• 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
• Per her book, Noem had intended to train Cricket to hunt pheasant, a type of bird.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 16 May 2024
• 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, 3 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, 2 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
• This recipe adapts the hops-roasting technique with something a little wilder—a ringneck pheasant.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 4 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024