henhouse

Example Sentences

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Is this a fox in the henhouse scenario, they ask?

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Therein lies what might be “Anniversary’s” biggest warning: Don’t let the fox into the henhouse, even if it seems rude not to.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

It is relevant because trusting the very agency that has been responsible for the myriad problems plaguing Arizona’s death-penalty system is a classic instance of letting the fox guard the henhouse.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2025

Jordan Adams, as it happened, was exactly the fox they wanted to eject from their own henhouse.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2023

So Pancho locked the goat in the shed next door to the henhouse, which was also surrounded by the chicken pen’s wire fence.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols