Example Sentences

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There is no word on when the huge henhouse will cluck again.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2023

Jazz fans with a knowledge of the period will cluck at the pragmatic tweaks of history in Dancing On The Edge.

From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2013

He will hide and not get shut up; then, when those cross old biddies are asleep, he will cluck softly, and I am to go in and eat all I want out of the pan.

From The Louisa Alcott Reader: a Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School by Alcott, Louisa May

‘Now we must fill up the keg with water,’ said Lizzy, ‘or it will cluck like forty hens when it is handled, and show that ’tis not full.’

From Wessex Tales by Hardy, Thomas