coop

When your kids have flown the coop, this is where you will probably spend your retirement years, so picture yourselves living there if/when you have reduced mobility.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026

You had an M.B.A. and were living in a chicken coop without running water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

Big Bear Lake’s famed bald eagle couple has flown the coop, and naturalists are pointing to the city’s July 4th fireworks celebration as the likely culprit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2025

If you, like me, are a connoisseur of ridiculous how-to TV, said pastime fits the profile of a woman of means with a backyard chicken coop and a Viking range.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025

Before he could reach it, the door to the chicken coop flew open violently, as if kicked.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Residents report bears rummaging through trash, raiding chicken coops and—like any good Southern Californian—dipping into backyard pools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

Where the animals go after that is up to them, and although there have been some attacks on chicken coops, Sarmento says there have not been many.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2025

Many people from Haiti and Latin America now work in the coops and slaughterhouses of the expanding poultry industry, which extends north into Maryland and Delaware.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

"Fish may simply not encounter much ammonium in the water, while chicken coops are filled with ammonium that needs to be avoided and not eaten."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2023

“If your question about the coops is whether you could earn the money you need making them, then my answer is a firm maybe,” he says, standing.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

Martin-Coppen added: "We are not talking small animals. We are talking pure muscle, pure power, untrained, cooped up in a small house."

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

A lot of workers end up cooped up in their office all day, never taking, or being able to take, time to step outdoors for fresh air.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

Garrett Pomerantz, USC outside linebacker and Moss’ former roommate, remembered visiting his friend and his family while they were cooped up at a hotel after the Palisades fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2025

When COVID-19 first began spreading around the world, and cities went into lockdown, many people joked that keeping couples cooped up in their homes would lead to a baby boom.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2024

Father Finnegan didn’t like that Danny would rather stay cooped up in the corner of the living room with a book.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

We also don’t mean cooping up post-exposure to a pathogen to contain the threat.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2021

There is still one authorized cooping location: the precinct station house itself.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2014

In New York City, large numbers of policemen seem to have the sleeping-on-duty habit, which they call "cooping."

From Time Magazine Archive

I forgot my earlier ambivalence, and I blamed Papa for everything: his young woman, his hurting Mama, his cooping me up while he went gallivanting around.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

I’d rather be outside with the men, rounding up the goats and cooping the chickens for the night, feeling hot inside my coat from the effort as my breath fogs out in the cold.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy