chicken out

Example Sentences

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Talking to the only other couple who managed not to chicken out like we did, I’ll never forget the looks on their faces when they learned we’d left in the midnight hour.

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025

Murdaugh testified that he saw them around the same time he took a chicken out of the mouth of one of their dogs, Bubba, who had been chasing the chicken on their property.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

“It’s really important when our country is going to crap, and maybe if it starts lightning right now, I might chicken out and run away,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2022

And now Chelsi Stone is glad she didn’t chicken out.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2022

But what if it had locked my chicken out of her house?

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones