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

"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

With the annual Thanksgiving holidays fast approaching, the agency leaned heavily into festive puns in their caption, quipping that its officers "are always working around the cluck to keep you safe".

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2022

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