rooster
Example Sentences
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Instead he’s something between an excitable morning TV anchor and the rooster who thought he brought the dawn.
I had to be at Mallons’ house before their rooster crowed.
From Literature
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The next morning, before the roosters started crowing, he took what money they had saved and headed for town.
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He gained a reputation for his love of cockfights, also calling himself “El Señor de Los Gallos” — the lord of the roosters.
From Los Angeles Times
They all slogged back up to the ridge, mad as wet hens … or maybe drenched roosters.
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