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"Hen" in a Sentence (18 examples)
The hen is hatching her chicks.
The hen sits on her eggs until they hatch.
The hen was sitting on the eggs in the nest.
The hen keeps her brood under her.
That's the meat of a hen.
The hen has been brooding its eggs for a week.
The hen has laid an egg.
The hen lays an egg almost every day.
The hen hatched five eggs.
This hen does not lay eggs at all these days.
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She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
In Tain, north of Inverness, staff detected 11 males and at least seven hens – the highest number there since 2011.
As spawning time approaches – autumn or very early winter in most rivers, though in some late-run streams salmon may spawn as late as January or February – the hen's colouration becomes first a matt-pewter and then a drab dark brown-grey. The cock fish, in contrast, begins to gain some brighter colours.
Hen, a woman. A cock and hen club; a club composed of men and women.
Don't cry, hen. Everything will be all right.
Coordinate term: cock
Once he had flared up, "If ever a man was henned, it's me!"
Mammy henned the black workers into placing the trunks beside the girls.
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