How to Use henhouse in a Sentence

henhouse

noun

• The fox is in the henhouse, ready for a sumptuous meal.
  — WSJ, 23 Feb. 2022
• But beyond that, the film shows the dangers of letting the fox guard the henhouse.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2019
• Predators flock to where kids are like a fox to a henhouse.
  — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2019
• Putting Puzder in charge of the Labor Department is like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.
  — Mercury News Readers, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2017
• Tyson is the largest chicken producer in the U.S. – the biggest henhouse, so to speak.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 16 Aug. 2019
• To locals like the Gibsons and others in their camp, the process feels like a fox guarding a henhouse.
  — Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2021
• Nanang Zainuddin, 37, runs a small kitchen around the corner from Mr. Karanawi’s henhouse.
  — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2019
• Nothing’s enough for him— a share of eggs and vodka, a seat in the henhouse, monthly visits from virgins and schoolboys.
  — Mira Rosenthal, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
• For a coach who loves drawing up plays for big arms, moving to Texas is like an omelet chef moving into a henhouse.
  — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 16 Jan. 2021
• In Walbrook, a homeowner who’d set out for the henhouse discovered that one of her chickens had laid an egg on the doorstep, as if to save her a trip to the coop.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 6 Jan. 2022
• Wander past the farm’s henhouse and apple orchards, and stop to buy some mulberry Afro Jam.
  — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 19 June 2019
• Opponents argue that Prop 22 is like letting a fox guard the henhouse.
  — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• Letting politicians manipulate voting maps is like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.
  — oregonlive, 13 May 2020
• The killer snake finagled its way into a chicken coop in Kerala, India, killed a chicken and then tried to eat eight of the eggs laying around the henhouse.
  — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
• New regulations will be keeping the poultry in the henhouse.
  — Chris M. Worrell, cleveland, 23 Sep. 2021
• Will oil and gas foxes be watching Utah’s air quality henhouse?
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2021
• As a result, putting Peter in charge of the Indigo investigation is like the fox guarding the henhouse.
  — Ron Gilmer, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2018
• Full of a sense of accomplishment as well as a good lunch, Smith sat down and wrote to a fellow magazine hack settled in Maine, describing the henhouse and life at his summer paradise.
  — Robert Messenger, WSJ, 16 June 2020
• On the other hand, allowing the former president of Goldman Sachs to sit atop one of Wall Street’s most powerful regulators seems a bit like having the fox watch the henhouse.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 12 July 2017
• Looking for respectability and approval from white people will always be as fruitless a task as a chicken’s attempt to convince a fox to respect the boundaries of the henhouse.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 26 Sep. 2017
• Brooke and Steve Giannetti, designers and authors of Patina Farm, built a henhouse worth clucking about.
  — Natalie Schumann, Country Living, 9 Mar. 2018
• Jurors were told that Guzmán once punished a man for working for another cartel by burning him with an iron, leaving him in a henhouse for days and then shooting him before burying him alive.
  — Alex Johnson, NBC News, 11 July 2019
• That’s apparently what happened over at Henry’s glass henhouse in Dearborn.
  — Car and Driver, 9 Sep. 2022
• Democracy advocates fear that partisan officials in these roles could stoke unfounded fears of election fraud or worse, prompting concern that the foxes are in the henhouse, so to speak.
  — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2022
• But Frankfurter’s dissent invited the legislative fox to guard its own districting henhouse.
  — John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
• Like a fox in the henhouse or a megalomaniac in Washington, D.C., Netflix arrived on the scene as a fringe player with lofty ambitions and little in-industry support.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2019
• More often than not, state legislatures are tasked with drawing district maps, allowing the electoral foxes to draw and defend their henhouse districts.
  — Brian Klaas, The Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2017
• This particular fox continues to guard a henhouse crammed with students battling soaring debts, a crushing burden that harms the entire economy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2019
• Higher level executives should want to hear about your offering, as the buyer’s suboptimal behavior may suggest the foxes are guarding the henhouse.
  — Andy Gole, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• An internal investigation of NBC investigating themselves, their own management and work culture is a sham, a classic case of a fox guarding a henhouse.
  — Brian Flood, Fox News, 6 Aug. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024