clucking
- present participle of cluck.
Example Sentences
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I remember the clucking when Mr. Cook took over as CEO in 2011.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
This term means that the hens are not kept in cages, but it doesn’t mean they’re clucking around in the fresh air and sunshine.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2023
Towns in France and Belgium, for example, give out chickens to serve as walking, clucking garbage disposals.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2023
Residents in Glasgow housing estates could soon be hearing the sound of mooing cows and clucking hens outside their homes.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022
The chickens were clucking and flying up into the kola nut tree, where they would sleep.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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