cluck

Example Sentences

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It certainly also helps that chicken thighs, by wide acclaim, are more difficult to cluck up in the kitchen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

“I was on the dance floor acting strange,” the lyrics go, “flapping my arms I began to cluck, look at me, I’m the disco duck.”

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024

"Everyone has their own inyeon," they cluck back.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2023

There is no word on when the huge henhouse will cluck again.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2023

I know how to coo and cluck at a laying hen so she won’t peck at your hands when you go to take her still-warm eggs away.

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