hen

Example Sentences

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The disease largely spared large egg-laying hen farms that can house millions of birds in single locations this past year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Louise had been in Liverpool on a hen weekend and when she arrived back in Belfast she got a call to tell her what had happened.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

His ancestor, he said, scolded the British: "You found a port as prosperous as a fine hen -- you took its eggs, plucked its feathers and now you spit its bones back at us."

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026

More adventurous eaters will zone in on the abalone served with a squash rosette or the guinea hen with potato millefeuille.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2025

He hovered like an anxious mother hen and spent as much time mopping his own brow as he did his wife’s.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood