hen

Example Sentences

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Avian flu wiped out millions of hens, quadrupling egg prices overnight.

From MarketWatch

Rescued gobblers and hens roamed while visitors to the six-acre spread were able to pet and feed them.

From Los Angeles Times

That Plinkst and the Swanburne Academy could coexist on the same planet seemed as unlikely as pigs taking flight, hens growing teeth, very hot places freezing over, and other such expressions of the impossible.

From Literature

“Well done, clever hens. Now turn, and shimmy, and shake your tails. Shake ’em all about!”

From Literature

Her 32,000-laying hens would normally be outdoors for most of the day.

From BBC