Example sentences for: hens

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

  • One night, when I was in college, I went to dinner with my roommate at the Algonquin--the Algonquin! My parents were paying!--and we had Rock Cornish game hens stuffed with wild rice and chicken livers and my roommate vowed she would serve them at her wedding, and she did.

  • Along a similar vane, a hardware clerk once told me that the brackets I needed were scarce as hens .

  • Although human biochemists can depress activity more than 10 5-fold in Fhit [ 35, 36] and Hint [ 30] with a single active-site His mutation, hens apparently continued to peck at the sequence of Hint, altering all four of the absolutely conserved His residues.

  • When as a little boy I listened to my parents talking about breeds of hens, I would certainly have written “Rhode Island Red’ as “Row-Dylan-dread.

  • A clue for COCK might thus come to read: number one in the pecking order dominates hens and crows (a quizzical statement, unless the word crows is read as a verb) or even: creature with a cow's head and a bullock's rump found in a coop (first letter of cow plus last three letters of bullock ).


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