Example Sentences

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To get ready for a show as important as this one, they had preened their pets for days.

From Time Magazine Archive

They became as familiar to me as any 'bus line, and I became a walking directory to the odd corners where she had preened her feathers for an hour or for a space of years.

From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Warren, Arthur

He had preened his feathers and done her bidding.

From The Lost Naval Papers by Copplestone, Bennet