cluck
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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
Mochrie was eager for a challenge, even if he worried that the laughs would come from making audiences cluck like chickens.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
I heard Chubs’s tongue cluck as he opened his mouth to say something, but there was a sharp cough from the driver’s seat.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
A University of Queensland-led study has found humans can tell if chickens are excited or displeased, just by the sound of their clucks.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 2, 2024
A cacophony of clucks led to neighbor complaints, followed by a citation from the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
And that could lead to a future with many more happy clucks.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 28, 2022
My rooster's clucks are used to refer to the food – with the hens understanding that reference.
From Salon ● May 30, 2022
Others sold live chickens, so there were crates piled as tall as a grown man filled with rustling feathers and frantic clucks.
From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
“The difference is the facts,” Mr. Smith clucked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
In the tangled stanza he creatively plays with clucked and plucked and how other rappers don't paint pictures, they just trace them.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2023
The buzzer of the building had been rewired to blast native birdcalls; sidewalk passersby often glanced over their shoulders as a bald eagle clucked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
“He was going to come to Washington,” Trump clucked.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2018
His pet hen, a White Leghorn, clucked with excitement every time the swatter came down.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
I remember the clucking when Mr. Cook took over as CEO in 2011.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2024
This term means that the hens are not kept in cages, but it doesn’t mean they’re clucking around in the fresh air and sunshine.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2023
And feeding chickens turns out to be a clucking good solution to a few specific climate challenges.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2023
Overhead the hens were clucking on their rope.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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