Examples of “scarecrow” in a Sentence

noun A figure made to look human, dressed in old clothes and set up in a field to frighten birds away from crops.

• Crows kept landing in the garden until we put up a scarecrow in a straw hat.
• The scarecrow's sleeves flapped in the wind above the rows of young lettuce.
• Priapus was frequently represented sculpturally, as a kind of scarecrow among the fields and even as a protection over graveyards. — Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs (1961)
• The farmer propped a scarecrow up among the cornstalks.

noun A very thin, awkward, or raggedly dressed person.

• After the illness he looked like a scarecrow.