Example Sentences

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"I've got my spreadsheets out everyday. We're not counting our chickens yet, but I feel like we should be ok," said Brian Guthrie from Inverness.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026

Stephane Delapre, a farmer in Beauvoir-sur-Mer, near the western coast, said half his chickens had died of suffocation on Monday.

From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026

“I eventually just got to the point where I didn’t think he was going to do anything,” said Fowler, who accused Bhakta’s German shepherd of killing his chickens.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Colossal co-founder and CEO Ben Lamm acknowledged that a long road will have to be traversed to move from hatching baby chickens to resurrecting the moa by email.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

On Sundays, their one regular day off, Washington’s enslaved people—with a requisite pass, or “remit”—could travel to the nearby town of Alexandria and its farm markets, where they could sell chickens, eggs, and garden produce.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis