hen

Example Sentences

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Louise had been in Liverpool on a hen weekend and when she arrived back in Belfast she got a call to tell her what had happened.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

A decade has passed since Louise James returned from a hen weekend feeling a sense of dread that a tragedy would unfold.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 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

“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 • Oct. 1, 2025

Being a rather old hen it would have been better roasted, but I could not help that; he would find it edible if a bit tough.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien