Example sentences for: hen

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

  • There'd be a cheerful chef butchering a Cornish hen, Muppets singing songs about friendship, two professors and a moderator seated in a bare-bones studio discussing race relations, a helmeted fat lady singing, a Third Worlder criticizing the First World in a documentary, and the lions of the Serengeti stalking an impala herd.

  • The latitude which may exist for restrictions on speech where the govern-ment's own message is being delivered flows in part from our observation that, "[w]hen the government speaks, for instance to promote its own policies or to advance a particular idea, it is, in the end, accountable to the electorate and the political process for its advocacy.

  • So I had to go out to de ambulants and cotch de little black hen, Nellie.

  • [W]hen you're a star of her magnitude, fashion will always return to you, hanging its head.

  • The root hen `one' is found in hendiadys , a rhetorical figure labeling expressions like nice and warm , instead of “nicely warm.”


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