Chicken Little
Example Sentences
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I normally think about what could go wrong, and I’ve cried out that we’re heading toward a dystopia more times than Chicken Little shrieked about the sky falling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
“I’m concerned that people will think it was the Chicken Little, you know, ‘Y’all said the sky was falling, and now nothing’s happened,’” she said in a phone interview.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2025
"We need to take these glaciers seriously without sounding like Chicken Little," Joughin said in an email.
From Fox News ● Feb. 2, 2022
Wheeler counsels: “Clear heads are needed to separate what is only hypothetical possibility based on worst-case assumptions” — the FAA’s Chicken Little scenario — “from what is highly probable based on real-world use.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2022
He dumped Chicken Little into a burlap sack and tossed him next to some egg crates and boxes of wool cloth.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
