Example Sentences

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Saying "Calmez vous, ma cherie" Clucking like a chicken Shouting "Witch!"

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2013

Clucking sympathetically, Oliver Wendell Holmes struck a similar note.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seemed as if the Banshee storm Knocked screaming for his withered form; It shrieked and whistled like a parrot, Clucking and stuttering through the garret.

From Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country by Heyward, DuBose

The best of jokes loses its point if it is kept going so long as it seems to have been in this 'Lodge of the Clucking Hen,' if I may so style it.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

One fine Sunday Captain Peek Stalked along the lower deck, Pausing now and then to stare, Poking here and scratching there, Like a pullet in her prime Clucking softly all the time.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919 by Various