cluck
verb (used without object)
to utter the cry of a hen brooding or calling her chicks.
was clucking
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past progressiveof cluck.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The maester was clucking like an old hen.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
The old hen was clucking in terror to her chicks, her cries having awakened the small boys.
From The Hills of Hingham by Dallas Lore Sharp
Bunny steered the raft over to the shore where the hen was clucking away, calling to her ducklings to come to dry land.
From Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus by Laura Lee Hope
Soon every chicken baby was hidden from sight and the chicken mother was clucking less loudly.
From Stories of Birds by Lenore Elizabeth Mulets
Grannie was clucking and chuckling to Baby John as she had clucked and chuckled to her own babies long ago.
From The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair
