hen

Example Sentences

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He keeps hens in his hostel room and dreams up improbable schemes to transform India - including planting trees along railway tracks, fertilised by waste from passing trains.

From BBC

They all slogged back up to the ridge, mad as wet hens … or maybe drenched roosters.

From Literature

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

I follow him to our darkened compartment, which is already occupied by three sleeping soldiers, a stout nun, and an irritable hen.

From Literature

The time he stitched up one of the hens and carried it around in his coat for a week after it had been attacked by a fox.

From Literature