HEN in a Sentence
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79 example sentences for HEN, such as:
1. Fat hens lay few eggs.
2. The hen pecked a hole in the sack.
3. This hen lays beautiful brown eggs.
4. The hen has hatched all her chickens.
5. Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
2. The hen pecked a hole in the sack.
3. This hen lays beautiful brown eggs.
4. The hen has hatched all her chickens.
5. Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of HEN
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hen
n. adult female chicken
n. adult female bird
Classic Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1 The older, quieter cities were wont to look upon the bustling new town with the sensations of a hen which has hatched a duckling.
2 As she bandaged it for him, he explained awkwardly that when attempting to get into a hen coop at Fayetteville, he had been discovered.
3 Scarlett did not ask whose hen coop but patted Pork's shoulder gently, tears in her eyes.
4 Pork would have taken shame to himself had he spent her money when there were unguarded hen coops along the road and smokehouses handy.
5 As he fussed over her, clucking like a hen, she gave herself up to the luxury of being taken care of.
6 And poor Honey was always a man-crazy fool with no more sense than a guinea hen.
7 The circle of mourners kept its place all evening, and Dave Dyer did the "stunt" of the Norwegian and the hen.
8 Under the glass cover of the dressing-table was a menu with the most enchanting dishes: breast of guinea hen De Vitresse, pommes de terre a la Russe, meringue Chantilly, gateaux Bruxelles.
9 He ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death.
10 A hen strayed in; a file of cows passed the door; then a sheep dog; then the cowman, Bond, who stopped.
11 She took her chair and looked through the smoke at a crude glass painting of a cow in a stable; also at a cock and a hen.
12 Only one hen pecked at her hand with a fierce little jab, so Connie was frightened.
13 For in a moment a tiny sharp head was poking through the gold-brown feathers of the hen, and eyeing the Cosmos.
14 The old hen pecked at him, but not so savagely.
15 Without knowing, he came quickly towards her and crouched beside her again, taking the chick from her hands, because she was afraid of the hen, and putting it back in the coop.
Example Sentence:
1 It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
2 It is no good hen that cackles in your house and lays in another's.
3 Better is the neighbour's hen than mine.
4 Grain by grain, and the hen fills her belly.
5 The hen pecked a hole in the sack.
6 If the hen does not prate, she will not lay.
7 Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
8 This hen lays beautiful brown eggs.
9 The hen has hatched all her chickens.
10 He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
11 The farmer scattered the corn in the yard for the hens.
12 Fat hens lay few eggs.
13 I threw pebbles at the hens, and that made them jump and squawk.
14 Inasmuch as our supply of electricity is cut off, we shall have to rely on the hens to incubate these eggs.