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

This was not all, for the cock, awaking at the noise, clapped his wings, and cried from the beam: "Cock-a-doodle-doo, cock-a-doodle-do!"

From Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 by Hale, Edward Everett

Then digging his feet well into the ground, he began his morning cock-a-doodle-do.

From Little Jack Rabbit's Adventures by Barbour, Harold S.

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

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