rooster

Example Sentences

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In 2018, photographer David Walter Banks captured Santa Monica, Calif.-based Tommy Kendall, a retired champion automobile race-car driver, with his 1973 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight, outfitted to look like a giant rooster.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

But the woman also had a rooster on her thumb, showing "an intriguing style with a certain uniqueness," says Dr Caspari.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025

Jefferson reasoned that Americans had never contracted to make King George III the main rooster — he could take his monarchy and stuff it.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025

While he speaks to me from his home in Sierra Leone, a rooster crows in the background, punctuating his sentences like a barnyard hype man.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2025

It stopped for a minute and crowed, just like in “Old MacDonald,” so I guess it was a rooster.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones