How to Use whisker in a Sentence

whisker

noun

• He won the race by a whisker.
• The mouse has silver whiskers and chews on strands of gold straw.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2024
• Then go in with a detail brush to paint ears, whiskers, and eyes.
  — Ariana Yaptangco, ELLE, 30 Aug. 2023
• Both have the same light eyes and white fur on their jawlines and white whiskers.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2023
• Knot them together in the center of the twine, and glue to the cat's face as whiskers.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 21 June 2023
• One’s fluffy, with big ears and whiskers; the other breathes with gills and ripples its way around the ocean.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
• Just those huge eyes, and there's a lot of detail in whisker patterns and all sorts of stuff.
  — Ashleigh Papp, Scientific American, 24 June 2022
• This puppy has all its limbs, pelage – fur, even whiskers.
  — Fox News, 4 Dec. 2019
• The fish are hand sculpted in white gold, with scales, fins, and whiskers all engraved by hand.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
• Even his whiskers were funny, and that’s not even to mention his pants.
  — Bart Bull, SPIN, 20 Mar. 2023
• The Hitch star, in a simple black t-shirt, is sporting a cat nose and whiskers drawn on her face.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
• Next time your cat graces you with its presence, have a closer look at the face, whiskers, and ears.
  — Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
• Now) Don’t wait until the full moon for the beardo in your life to tame their feral whiskers.
  — Meirav Devash, Allure, 6 Oct. 2017
• By the end, some of Pashkov's wolf whisker makeup had rubbed off onto her own face.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2019
• Red pandas have thick, reddish fur, long and bushy tails that have white on them and long whiskers.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2018
• Her cure for what ailed her (a bum knee): the hot springs in Benton, Calif., just a whisker away from the Nevada border.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• Trimming your beard can also help keep flakes and oil from building up in the whiskers.
  — Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
• Quick hit: Both Saints games this season have gone over, but only by a whisker.
  — Ed Barkowitz, Philly.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• Pipe on pink frosting ears and white frosting whiskers.
  — Woman's Day Kitchen, Woman's Day, 13 Sep. 2019
• And there, in the pretty green grass with their perfect whiskers, were the day’s four-legged attendees.
  — Beth Spotswood, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2018
• In the other three seasons combined, the Buckeyes have run the ball a whisker under 60 percent of the time.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2021
• So why were their eyes—and their whiskers, limbs, and tails—twitching hundreds of thousands of times each day?
  — Amanda Gefter, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
• The pup, his whiskers comically long for his face, looked up at me with wide black eyes.
  — Jessica Vincent, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2023
• What had been a long shot of making the playoffs going into the game was reduced to a whisker.
  — Phil Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2021
• Her makeup team nailed the look, including the spooky yellow eyes, white streaks of hair, and long whiskers.
  — Lauren Adhav, Cosmopolitan, 1 Nov. 2017
• In the first photo, Mendes posed with her mother while wearing a black t-shirt and a cat nose and whiskers drawn on her face.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
• First baseman Josh Naylor stretched to make a short-hop catch that beat Margot by a whisker.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2022
• Mobile came in at No. 199, just a whisker above bottom-of-the-barrel Jackson, Miss.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 4 June 2023
• Most dogs will slurp from a bowl, but cats are famously finicky and some don't like their whiskers touching the sides of a small dish.
  — goodhousekeeping.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• The new species was identified by its coloring, jaw shape, fins, skeleton and whiskers, the study said.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024