"wooden" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mr. Couch led him to a wooden decoy of a flamingo he said was carved in middle Tennessee.
- The idea spread rapidly and by 1840 the wooden decoy was firmly established in American hunting traditions.
- N. W. Cusa's ducks are like attractive wooden decoys.
- Barber began collecting the carved wooden decoys in 1918 after finding one by accident near his Long Island boathouse.
- At first the wooden decoys were simply a means to an end primitive carvings just convincing enough to lure Long Island's ducks and shorebirds into the sights of hunters.
- Out on the right now, the boatman was still chopping angrily at the ice, and tossing out the wooden decoys in a hatred that showed in every move he made.
- He then spread four dozen of his most lifelike wooden decoys, after which he released Todkill's fifteen live ones.
- Onk-or from the first had spotted the bizarre assembly of wooden decoys and live trolls, and it was not long before he discorned the guns hiding among the rushes.
- A dummy tank is a type of decoy, usually inflatable or wooden, intended to be mistaken by an enemy for a real tank.
- He said the wooden decoys of World War II would no longer qualify, nor would the inflatable rubber dummies still sold by some companies.
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