Example Sentences
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Residents report bears rummaging through trash, raiding chicken coops and—like any good Southern Californian—dipping into backyard pools.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
"This can lead to uneasiness within locals. We've been strengthening the coops so lynxes can't access them, and in some cases we keep monitoring the lynxes and scare them off if needed."
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2025
Many people from Haiti and Latin America now work in the coops and slaughterhouses of the expanding poultry industry, which extends north into Maryland and Delaware.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2024
They work on a farm where Huran runs the chicken coops and rents a space to slaughter and sell the poultry to a restaurant.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2023
We inquired about a few coops, a new thing here.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
