Example Sentences

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Vampyrum bats prey mostly on birds they find by smell, whereas the woollies swoop down on rodents they hear rustling on the forest floor.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 11, 2023

Locals in brown overalls, tweeds and woollies watch this enactment of merrie England, when armadas were seen off and men wore tights.

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013

Bassett – an actress who grows in every play – shoves her face between dire woollies like a feral hedgehog.

From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2012

The heating oil run-up spurs sales of wood and woollies, and budget worries Our Lady of Pity, a Roman Catholic church in North Cambridge, Mass., had never before seemed so aptly named.

From Time Magazine Archive

He runs about twelve hundred woollies, and is about as unpolite a cuss as I ever met up with.

From The Long Shadow by Bower, B. M.