cluck

Example Sentences

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“The difference is the facts,” Mr. Smith clucked.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Suddenly with a plop, the egg landed on the straw. With clucks of pleasure the hen shook her feathers, nudged the egg with her beak, and left,” Goodall wrote almost 60 years later.

From Los Angeles Times

Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs.

From Salon

“I was on the dance floor acting strange,” the lyrics go, “flapping my arms I began to cluck, look at me, I’m the disco duck.”

From New York Times

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