Example Sentences

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The maester was clucking like an old hen.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

"What strange things girls are—and boys!" said Kate with a matronly sigh, burying her face in a nest where a hen was clucking and two downy chicks were peeping from her wing.

From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir

The little ducks were swimming in the water, and the hen mother was clucking along shore.

From Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus by Hope, Laura Lee

A fussy old hen, with her feathers all fluffed out importantly, was clucking and scratching for a brood of downy yellow chickens, just out of the shell.

From Mary Ware's Promised Land by Goss, John

Ere evening came, Coccod� was clucking gaily under the kitchen table, and Furicchia found, not one egg, but three, all a rich coffee brown, and polished like porcelain.

From The Fairies and the Christmas Child by Gask, Lilian