An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds.
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Examples for "scarecrow "
Examples for "scarecrow "
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.
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.
4 " ' Bird-scarer , ' " said the C.S.M.
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