Example sentences for: hens

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

  • 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 ).

  • According to critics, tribal team names set Indians apart from the rest of humanity--romantically projecting them into the mythic past (along with Trojans, Vikings, Pirates , and the like) or else degrading them to the cartoonlike level of Mud Hens, Golden Gophers , and other fabulous beasts.

  • He always reminds me of Rock Cornish game hens, which, as I recall, he raised and sold and made famous.

  • You won’t find many notable temples, palaces, or other historic sites, but visitors to Lombok are rewarded with the pleasures of the island’s relaxed, rustic ways: the sight of water buffaloes and their calves; hens, and chicks dashing across your path; sudden views of blue sea dotted with sails.


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