How to Use hen in a Sentence

hen

noun

• With a basket in hand, Ollie reached a brave hand under a hen and pulled out a perfect egg.
  — Peden+munk, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2024
• In between are Cornish game hens and smoked turkey legs, venison and elk, and racks of rubs and sauces.
  — Sacbee, sacbee.com, 23 May 2017
• Guess the officers should have done a better job of guarding the hen house, err, make that SUV.
  — Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 June 2017
• After a few weeks, the infant pack of Great Pyrenees began to move, and the hen showed interest in them.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
• White bread also swaddles the hen-of-the-woods mushroom sandwich, a vegetarian number with impressive brawn.
  — Rebecca Flint Marx, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• The Owen County Humane Society seized six roosters, seven hens and 47 chicks in the bust.
  — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2017
• Wiseman did some internet research of his own and found that there are about 40 million chickens in Ohio, with 30 million of these hens kept for laying eggs.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 4 June 2017
• Wahl, also a Carbonell winner with great range, makes Tracy a sort of mother hen, cheerleader and trusted guide into Casey’s strange new world.
  — Christine Dolen, miamiherald, 30 May 2017
• This full-on restaurant comes with a 103-piece set of plastic accessories, including a croissant, red and green grapes, and what appears to be a pair of Cornish game hens.
  — Molly Fitzpatrick, Bon Appetit, 8 May 2017
• Kate recently joined her sister for a low-key skiing hen do in France last month (while her husband Prince William went on a separate ski trip with his friends and showed off his dance moves).
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 May 2017
• Hens are required to be in a covered inside enclosure and have an adjacent outside fenced-in area of no less than 32 square feet and set back 30 feet from any nearby residence.
  — Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 17 May 2017
• Whereas community college had plenty of older students, at the university, the mother hen was surrounded by spring chickens.
  — Danielle Dreilinger, NOLA.com, 12 May 2017
• Why the rats had spared the little Bantam hen herself can only be explained by the fact that Lisettchen broke out in such an enraged outcry and beat so wildly with her wings that even the rats must have been frightened off.
  — Longreads, 22 May 2017
• But copies of the hit videogame were as scarce as hen’s teeth.
  — Stephen McBride, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• Marge said Tori is the leader of the flock, or boss hen.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2021
• Might as well ask a hen not to lay eggs or the sun not to shine.
  — Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• Rather, the color depends on the breed of the hen, Bauche says.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 9 Jan. 2020
• On each, she’s written the name of the hen that produced the egg.
  — Jennifer Piejko, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• Even better, get in the woods with live hens and call to them.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2024
• The color of the eggshell simply depends on the breed of hen.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
• The hen didn't make a quack and remained calm throughout the process.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2021
• After five minutes of to-and-fro, the 30-inch hen came to hand.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2018
• There are hens who lay in nest boxes, and those that lay on the floor.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2018
• Cage-free does NOT mean that the hens have access to the outdoors.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 9 Jan. 2020
• Have you see how the hens in the garden pick at each other?
  — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 10 June 2019
• Ali King baits a trap with a hen’s egg and piece of rabbit meat.
  — Naomi Arnold, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2020
• Grouse gather on the lek, where the hens watch males display.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
• She was treated like a queen, was a mean girl to the other hens.
  — Martha McPhee, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• The use of the DCP is equivalent to placing the proverbial fox in charge of the hen house.
  — Jon Lender, courant.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• When the sky is falling, who will help the little red hen?
  — Catharine Hamm, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024