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

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

Tucker asked, prompting the woman to put the hen on the phone, where it let out a faint cluck.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2021

If we saw a creakity wagon up ahead full of country folks going to town, I’d cluck the mules to a smart trot and we’d all wave as we passed them.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns