Downy is an English word with synonyms like haired or hairy. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Downy in a sentence
Downy meaning
- Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair.
- Sharp-witted, perceptive.
- Low-spirited; down in the mouth.
Using Downy
- The main meaning on this page is: Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair. | Sharp-witted, perceptive. | Low-spirited; down in the mouth.
- Useful related words include: downlike, haired, hairy, sericeous.
- In the example corpus, downy often appears in combinations such as: downy mildew, and downy, downy woodpecker.
Context around Downy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Downy
- In this selection, "downy" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 18.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fluffy, chicks, daniella, mildew, woodpecker and plumage stand out and add context to how "downy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include powdery and downy mildew and affected by downy mildew. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "downy" sits close to words such as abdelaziz, absolutist and accrual, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with downy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Beethoven's Treasure Tail (2014): She was Daniella Downy. (9 words)
Try to master the difference between hairy and downy woodpecker drums. (11 words)
Downy mildew is the biggest threat to spinach production around the world. (12 words)
This is their 11-acre hobby farm, with a big goofy dog named DJ asleep under the kitchen table, chickens pecking around the yard and downy ducklings under heat lamps in the ramshackle barn. (34 words)
Ahead of the rain, downy mildew warnings were issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, and the likelihood of powdery mildew and botrytis are also of concern with the increased moisture. (30 words)
A duckling is a young duck in downy plumage citation or baby duck; citation but in the food trade young adult ducks ready for roasting are sometimes labelled "duckling". (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
It's about 2.5-months-old and has fluffy downy feathers and the adult plumage on the head.
Monetizr’s customers include large CPG (consumer product goods) companies like Tide, Charmin, and Downy.
Nericon winegrape grower Bruno Altin was one of the growers affected by downy mildew.
Unlike their parents, whose sleek black-and-white feathers seal their skin against the frigid ocean, chicks’ downy plumage isn’t waterproof.
Beethoven's Treasure Tail (2014): She was Daniella Downy.
Downy mildew is the biggest threat to spinach production around the world.
East Coast growers are at the center of origin for powdery and downy mildew.
It is less common here than the downy woodpecker, probably by a factor of a third to half.
Try to master the difference between hairy and downy woodpecker drums.
Most species that I encountered were not a surprise: Black-capped chickadees, downy woodpeckers, white-breasted nuthatches, black-billed magpies, and a few others.
Where wines are concerned, much of the attention has focused on fungicides because grapes are particularly susceptible to rot from such mouldy invaders as powdery and downy mildew.
Ahead of the rain, downy mildew warnings were issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, and the likelihood of powdery mildew and botrytis are also of concern with the increased moisture.
Snuggle, Downy unstoppables, Gain Fireworks, Tide, Bounce Febrez, Bursts, Purex, and so forth are some of the leading firms in the market.
This is their 11-acre hobby farm, with a big goofy dog named DJ asleep under the kitchen table, chickens pecking around the yard and downy ducklings under heat lamps in the ramshackle barn.
This past winter, I had a Downy Woodpecker roosting in my Western Bluebird nesting box.
Trevor’s daughters (l-r) Chloe Smith, Rachel Preston-Smith, Sophie Preston-Smith and Jade Downy outside the court building.
A duckling is a young duck in downy plumage citation or baby duck; citation but in the food trade young adult ducks ready for roasting are sometimes labelled "duckling".
Children wore parkas made of downy eagle skin with tanned bird skin caps.
Diseases affecting the foliage include rust and smut, downy mildew, and white tip disease.
Downy has 2 sisters one named Vera and a brother named Angus.
Common combinations with downy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- downy mildew 8×
- and downy 6×
- downy woodpecker 3×
- downy feathers 2×
- downy plumage 2×
- the downy 2×
- in downy 2×
- of downy 2×
- married downy 2×