Rooster

//ˈɹustəɹ//

"Rooster" in a Sentence (17 examples)

It is the hen that makes the rooster crow.

Yesterday I went to Denizli and I saw a rooster near the coop.

The twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac come from eleven kinds of animals originating in nature, namely the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig, as well as the legendary form of the dragon, and are used as a calendar.

Without doubt, what people worship first is what they see most often; for example, the animals that had the closest connection to people's lives, like the horse, the cow, the sheep, the rooster, the dog and so on.

The cow goes "moo," the rooster goes "cock-a-doodle-doo," the pig goes "oink, oink," the duck goes "quack, quack" and the cat goes "meow."

The rooster crows at sunrise.

The twelve animals of the Chinese Zodiac come from eleven types of animals we find in nature: the rat, the ox, the tiger, the hare, the snake, the horse, the ram, the monkey, the rooster, the dog, the pig, and the mythological dragon; they're used as a calendar.

Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.

The cow moos, the rooster crows, the pig oinks, the duck quacks, and the cat meows.

The rooster crows, "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" in the morning.

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Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt.

The produce of two hens and a cock, or rooster, as the Yankees term that bird.

Chalk a circle for a rooster.

The more leisured flight of the roosters [sc. starlings] was in contrast to the steady procession of the migrants.

Ground roosters like Northern Harriers may be subject to predation by Great-horned Owls […] but still larger perchers like herons and Ospreys use snags or posts in conspicuous places but are large enough to escape aerial predators.

In April they played Hens and Roosters, yoking their wild white and blue violets to see which would get its head pulled off.

American demoralisation... has carried rooster into the halls of republican legislation, where it indicates a bill or proposed law which will remunerate the legislators.

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