Example sentences for: clucks

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

  • The farmyard cock is so called for its clucks, as illustrated by Chaucer in The Nun's Priest's Tale, in which Chanticleer cryde anon, cok, cok.

  • I missed two classic spoonerisms in XVIII, 4: the one that spells the difference between a game cock and a shysters lawyer (a game cock clucks defiance), and the difference between a lady in the bath and a lady in the church (the latter has a hope in her soul).

  • Employing an accent that's straight out of Fargo , Streep clucks and flutters and sighs and acts so ostentatiously industrious that it's hard to imagine anyone not noticing (or not wanting to bludgeon) her.

  • The cover story clucks over the dismal state of Sino-U.S. relations.

  • The Los Angeles Times clucks that "public trust in product liability cases tried by juries might well be going down the drain with these excessive awards ."


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