cluck

Example Sentences

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It certainly also helps that chicken thighs, by wide acclaim, are more difficult to cluck up in the kitchen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

"Everyone has their own inyeon," they cluck back.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2023

With the annual Thanksgiving holidays fast approaching, the agency leaned heavily into festive puns in their caption, quipping that its officers "are always working around the cluck to keep you safe".

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2022

Mochrie was eager for a challenge, even if he worried that the laughs would come from making audiences cluck like chickens.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2022

If we saw a creakity wagon up ahead full of country folks going to town, I’d cluck the mules to a smart trot and we’d all wave as we passed them.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns