hen
Example Sentences
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A decade has passed since Louise James returned from a hen weekend feeling a sense of dread that a tragedy would unfold.
From BBC
No chickens warbled from inside the hen house.
From Literature
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We divvied up the snake with the ax for the hens to feed on and buried the head.
From Literature
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One of them is a banty hen we call Hawk, and since she is at least partially a creature of the woods it might be proper to tell about her here.
From Literature
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Even Biddy, our hen, and her two sisters were clucking as they dashed back and forth on the earthen floor.
From Literature
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