Portuguese
espantalho Catalan
espantall An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds.
Synonyms
Examples for "scarer"
Examples for "scarer"
1
When night came down, he decided to risk a scarer approach.
2
He collects famous scarer memorabilia and has read every scaring text book there is.
3
Whose thrall art thou now, thou lifter of the spoil, thou scarer of the freeborn?
4
His head is swiveling like a bird-scarer, taking in my twelve square meters of squalor.
5
Mike has always dreamed of being a scarer.
1
They even laid out a strawman organization that made sense to me.
2
I don't want you to think I'm building a strawman here.
3
One strawman proposal has been advanced, suggesting a leadership split between myself and Dr. Brown.
4
There is sound logic in the strawman proposal.
5
We end the so-called strawman provision.
1
The next criticism is a related one: the great ' straw man' offensive.
2
He set up this straw man here, just to keep me company.
3
Ivy hugged me and slipped a little straw man into my hand.
4
And a marvelous straw man to knock down with their scientific exorcisms.
5
He looked a straw man set out to announce some holiday.
1
His head is swiveling like a bird-scarer, taking in my twelve square meters of squalor.
2
They haunted newly-sown fields and would rise, all right, at a shout from a bird-scarer, but were difficult to shoot.
3
Visiting Salisbury Museum, I found myself eyeballing the last great bustard in Victorian England, shot down by a bird-scarer with a marble in 1871.
1
He spent part of the afternoon in throwing stones at a scarecrow.
2
The scarecrow simply shrugs and returns to mopping the polished onyx floor.
3
The next instant the scarecrow figure seemed to fly all to pieces.
4
Henceforth you will be described as a scarecrow in all Slavonic fights.
5
I still felt like a scarecrow, but I was on my way.
6
It's only once you zoom that you see it's actually a scarecrow.
7
This man was half the size of Skinner, and a regular scarecrow.
8
This scarecrow had not said a word to anyone during the drive.
9
They gathered that a scarecrow is not as dangerous as it looks.
10
It was originally made to be part of his village's scarecrow festival.
11
All that remained of the scarecrow were rags nailed to the wood.
12
To make a story out of a scarecrow, giving it odd attributes.
13
Guess I'll make a sort of scarecrow and stuff it with straw.
14
The next day Billy arrived, a thin, white scarecrow of a dog.
15
It was nothing, after all, but a scarecrow stuck upon two sticks.
16
My headlights revealed a shadowy scarecrow, hunched and emaciated on his cross.
