chicken

Example Sentences

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"Now the chickens are coming home to roost."

From Barron's

She flipped the lid up and went into raptures about the fried chicken and potato salad.

From Literature

At the ball, servers carrying trays of smoked salmon and caviar on an Oscar-shaped cracker and chicken nuggets with caviar squeezed through the crowd.

From Los Angeles Times

"Our work goes beyond the cliché that all we do for a living is ask customers whether they want chicken or beef for dinner," she says.

From BBC

As oil prices dropped and PdVSA became a piggy bank for Chávez’s pet projects, including the sale of chickens, oil production slumped.

From The Wall Street Journal