hen clucks
Frequency: 6.01.2 per million words
to make a short, low sound, typical of a hen
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Examples (10)
- I could hear the hens clucking in the farmyard.
- The old hen would always cluck softly to her chicks.
- A nervous hen began to cluck loudly when the dog approached.
- She mimicked the sound of a hen clucking for the children.
- We knew the hens were content by their gentle clucking.
- The farmer listened to his hens clucking happily as he collected eggs.
- If a hen clucks repeatedly, it might be about to lay an egg.
- The clucking of the hens was a familiar sound on the farm.
- After laying an egg, the hen clucked proudly.
- The hens had been clucking all morning.