hen

Example Sentences

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The third case involved covert surveillance at a hen harrier roost in the Yorkshire Dales where investigators captured evidence of a planned attempt to kill one of the UK's rarest birds of prey.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

The disease largely spared large egg-laying hen farms that can house millions of birds in single locations this past year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

His ancestor, he said, scolded the British: "You found a port as prosperous as a fine hen -- you took its eggs, plucked its feathers and now you spit its bones back at us."

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026

“You have the fox guarding the hen house,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026

I remember thinking as I watched a hen going into one of the henhouses, “Ah, now I’ll follow her and see what happens.”

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall