henhouse
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henhouses
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Origin of henhouse
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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
I hauled it in the old wooden handcart, some from the pile outside the barn, some from the henhouse.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
And there’s always the frightening prospect that wild birds could carry the virus into the henhouses needed in vaccine production.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2024
It has infiltrated big commercial poultry farms and tiny backyard henhouses, affecting 72 million farmed birds in the United States alone, according to the Department of Agriculture.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
While you can buy premade henhouses for as little as a few hundred dollars, most are flimsy.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
Department of Agriculture, would eliminate loopholes that have let some of the biggest egg producers claim the federally administered "organic" label by installing open-air porches on henhouses in lieu of providing access to pasture.
From Reuters ● Aug. 9, 2022
Finding them was rather like an Easter egg hunt, because many of the hens preferred to lay under bushes, rather than inside the henhouses.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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