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partridge - use in sentences
Converse of object
- see: You may also be lucky and see partridge and hare in the fields here abouts.
- drive: The estate offers a high quality driven partridge shoot.
- kill: There was also a clause that £ 20 had to be paid for every pheasant or partridge killed on the land.
Noun used with modifier
- gray: Perdix perdix gray partridge S S Concentrated in open arable farmland with hedgerows.
Adjective modifier
- red-legged: More... October 18th 2004 Red-legged partridge: new garden bird?
- gray: Back then, gray partridge were the most common game birds in the country.
- red: The three course lunch dishes vary from roast red leg partridge to pan fried foie gras.
- French: The red-legged or french partridge is much more common than the gray legged variety.
- English: Several pairs of English partridge and French partridge have also been spotted.
Modifies a noun
- shooting: Driven pheasant and partridge shooting runs from the beginning of October until the end of January.
- number: Our partridge numbers are increasing due to all the management methods we employ.
- breast: Put the partridge breast on top of the stuffing.
- egg: June 2 nd 1909 Arthur Wordley, a mat maker of Glemsford, was summoned for having in his possession 7 partridge eggs.
- chick: Arable margins with a tussocky sward provide valuable nesting cover and a valuable food source for gray partridge chicks.
- box: Traditional partridge boxes are constructed to specifications advocated by the Game Conservancy Trust.
Preposition: in
- tree: The partridge in a pear tree is Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
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