Example Sentences

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By last January aides were clucking over polls showing that she might pull independent women voters back to the G.O.P. fold for the first time in 20 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even Biddy, our hen, and her two sisters were clucking as they dashed back and forth on the earthen floor.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

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

She could hear chickens were clucking outside the windows, scratching for bits of gravel in the grass.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

Overhead the hens were clucking on their rope.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff