cluck
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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
One they could whisper about and cluck their tongues over before moving on to other things.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
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
My rooster's clucks are used to refer to the food – with the hens understanding that reference.
From Salon ● May 30, 2022
The clucks from children coaxing donkeys carrying loads of coal down the mountain.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
He taps the side of his head, and Gloria clucks her teeth.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
“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
Deanna Lin, who owns four chickens in Menlo Park, was unaware of the outbreak as her four hens clucked and scratched across her yard last week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
“He was going to come to Washington,” Trump clucked.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2018
He clucked to the horses to walk on until he stopped behind the first wagon.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
Towns in France and Belgium, for example, give out chickens to serve as walking, clucking garbage disposals.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2023
From the clucking sounds of adults I knew that the doll represented what they thought was my fondest wish.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
