Example Sentences

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“The difference is the facts,” Mr. Smith clucked.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

A few years later he portrayed zany King Candy in “Wreck-It Ralph. That led to such animated hits as “Frozen,” “Zootopia” and “Moana,” for which Tudyk clucked a “chicken under duress” character named Heihei.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2024

In the tangled stanza he creatively plays with clucked and plucked and how other rappers don't paint pictures, they just trace them.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2023

She ignored the parents who clucked over their kids’ imperfect hair parts and short attention spans in favor of shooting candid moments, which make for better photographs, she argued.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2020

Deirdre brayed and the goat stamped the ground and the owl hooted and the chickens clucked and Grunt grunted his appreciation.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs