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Recent Examples of henhouseAndy Cohen’s henhouse TV phenomenon has coarsened the idea of womanhood, reducing it to celebrity-wannabes presenting themselves like courtesans in prêt-à-porter versions of Met Gala costumes.—Armond White, National Review, 22 May 2024 Despite the olive branch, a top advertising source expressed caution, comparing Netflix’s strategic moves to letting a fox into the henhouse.—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2024 Around 80 fat Sasso chickens squawk and scratch in his stone henhouse.—Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023 Therefore, the new character is the Big Bad Wolf and Steve's in the henhouse.—Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for henhouse
At the very top of the house, in a former dovecote with oxeye windows, there’s now a yoga studio and a roof deck with a hair-raising view of the river valley.
Jo Rodgers,
Vogue,
3 May 2024
Surrounded by redwood trees, the half-timbered home has multiple rooflines and gables, three stand-alone dovecotes that look like little towers, and a fence of irregularly curving bricks.
The first was named after the legislature of the Texas Republic, although the first capitol, a log structure tucked behind a defensive stockade, rose not on Congress, but at West Eighth and Colorado streets.
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
3 Sep. 2024
Buildings that were part of the stockade were then dismantled, and the wood planks were reused to build homes located throughout Marietta.
On the day of the rettir, hundreds of sheep are released into a central wooden sheepfold that’s surrounded by marked compartments—one belonging to each local farmer—that jut out from the inner circle like rays of the sun.
Laura Kiniry,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Oct. 2022
This tidy residence in the western Swiss village of Etoy was built in 1830 as a sheepfold.
In fact, by 1978, black children could be shot on sight for leaving their family's kraal, or homestead.
Alexandra Fuller,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Aug. 2020
Inspired by a traditional kraal (village) and surrounded by four savannahs, the lodge is home to 30 wildlife species — zebras, giraffes, flamingos, and gazelles — some of which can be spotted wandering past room windows.
To step onto a red carpet, enveloped in her sculptural, statuesque folds of fabric has become a rite of passage for young stars scaling new heights–the dress functioning as a symbolic on-ramp for the beloved ingénue turned bombshell.
Daniel Rodgers,
Vogue,
2 Dec. 2024
The backpack has a 20-liter capacity but folds into a small pouch when not in use.
Since then, the House of Harlow founder has established a downright wholesome cottagecore-style home life for herself, raising a menagerie of pets, gardening, beekeeping, and harvesting eggs from her backyard chicken coop.
Katie Schultz,
Architectural Digest,
2 Dec. 2024
In a 2023 episode of the home renovation show, Hall and Haack proudly showed off their chicken coop which features black and white paint and a double gable roof.
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