henhouse

Example Sentences

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Is this a fox in the henhouse scenario, they ask?

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

When finally she ran out of the henhouse with the exciting news, her mother did not scold her but patiently listened to her daughter’s account of her first scientific observation.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025

It is relevant because trusting the very agency that has been responsible for the myriad problems plaguing Arizona’s death-penalty system is a classic instance of letting the fox guard the henhouse.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2025

Public outcry around the report likens a Pentagon self-investigation to charging the fox to guard the henhouse.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2024

But ten or twelve inches of this one hung down the side of the henhouse with his mean-looking head in the dust.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck