henhouse
Example Sentences
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Therein lies what might be “Anniversary’s” biggest warning: Don’t let the fox into the henhouse, even if it seems rude not to.
From Los Angeles Times
“They hear the buzz of a drone and hide in barns or henhouses. Then, when the drone passes, they all come out,” he said.
When she was about 5, she disappeared for hours to a dark henhouse to see how chickens laid eggs, so absorbed that she was oblivious to her family’s frantic search for her.
From Los Angeles Times
In 2010, California voters drove the foxes from the henhouse, seeing to it that lawmakers in Washington and Sacramento would no longer have the power to draw congressional districts to suit themselves.
From Los Angeles Times
“At Mason, the foxes are in the henhouse,” she said.
From Salon
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