cluck
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It certainly also helps that chicken thighs, by wide acclaim, are more difficult to cluck up in the kitchen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
"Everyone has their own inyeon," they cluck back.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2023
With the annual Thanksgiving holidays fast approaching, the agency leaned heavily into festive puns in their caption, quipping that its officers "are always working around the cluck to keep you safe".
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2022
Mochrie was eager for a challenge, even if he worried that the laughs would come from making audiences cluck like chickens.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
One turkey released a contented trilling little cluck.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
A University of Queensland-led study has found humans can tell if chickens are excited or displeased, just by the sound of their clucks.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 2, 2024
She clucks her tongue, disregarding his complaint as though she were dealing with a toddler, and then gets to the point: She took his place in line for the Iron Throne.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
And that could lead to a future with many more happy clucks.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 28, 2022
My rooster's clucks are used to refer to the food – with the hens understanding that reference.
From Salon ● May 30, 2022
He thought the chicken would calm as he carried her—Charlie carried all his chickens around—but her frantic clucks added to the chorus of crickets and the crescendo of the owls: Who?
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
“The difference is the facts,” Mr. Smith clucked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
In the tangled stanza he creatively plays with clucked and plucked and how other rappers don't paint pictures, they just trace them.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2023
The chief clucked his tongue some more, lapsing into silence.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2022
The buzzer of the building had been rewired to blast native birdcalls; sidewalk passersby often glanced over their shoulders as a bald eagle clucked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
Anatole came out and clucked his tongue at my handiwork.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
I remember the clucking when Mr. Cook took over as CEO in 2011.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
"He didn't let US government clucking and handwringing stop him," says Robert Carlin.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2024
This term means that the hens are not kept in cages, but it doesn’t mean they’re clucking around in the fresh air and sunshine.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2023
The little boy started clucking and pecking ’round on the stage then he commenced scratching at the floor with his bare feet and you’d have swored he was digging up worms!
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
