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Example sentences for: chickens

How can you use “chickens” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

We all know people who are no spring chickens , but where, pray tell, are the people who are “spring chickens”?
After all, on his return he told of being attacked by insects as big as chickens.
To cite just one example, 25 North Carolina workers died during a chicken-plant fire in 1991, due to "locked exit doors that were blocked off so workers wouldn't steal chickens."
The LAT , USAT , the Wall Street Journal , and the NYT all run front-page items about Hong Kong's decision to combat that new strain of chicken flu by killing all 1 million of its chickens.
We have previously reported that it takes from 12-16 h following 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D treatment of Caco-2 cells to first appreciate an increase in saturable transcellular calcium transport [ 19 ] . This temporal response is similar to the 8-16 h observed for the achievement of maximal rates of intestinal calcium absorption in vivo following 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D treatment of vitamin D-deficient chickens [ 28 ] . Future studies of the time course of CaT1 protein expression and localization of this protein to the brush border will be necessary to confirm this point, but must await the development of a suitable CaT1 antibody.