cock-a-doodle-do
Example Sentences
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As the “happy hens” hearing got fractious, Weyand’s phone rang with a cock-a-doodle-do ringtone.
From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2019
However she heard a cock-a-doodle-do from the hen-house, and ran off there, forgetting her troubles.
From Fairy Tales from the German Forests by Arndt, Margaret
"Fancy a mother throwing her daughter at the head of a boy like Reggie Leeds!—as vicious and unclean a little whelp as ever—Oh, what's the use?—and de mortius nihil—et cetera, cock-a-doodle-do!"
From The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
So away he hopped, clippity, clip, lippity, lip, past the Barnyard where Cocky Doodle was singing his cock-a-doodle-do song, and Henny Penny was cackling over her new laid egg.
From Little Jack Rabbit and Chippy Chipmunk by Cory, David
But why—why, seeing that in Tommy they admire it, do they wait for me with imitations of cock-a-doodle-do, strut beside me mimicking a pouter pigeon?
From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
