CHICKEN in a Sentence

Learn CHICKEN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

106 example sentences for CHICKEN, such as:

1. I find chicken a little bland.
2. Cover the chicken loosely with foil.
3. This chicken isn't cooked in the middle.
4. Though the fox run, the chicken hath wings.
5. Cover the chicken with silver foil and bake.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHICKEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
chicken
 n.  a domestic bird kept on farm for its eggs or its meat
Classic Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
1  While Gerald launched forth on his news, Mammy set the plates before her mistress, golden-topped biscuits, breast of fried chicken and a yellow yam open and steaming, with melted butter dripping from it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  When the last forkful of pork and chicken and mutton had been eaten, Scarlett hoped the time had come when India would rise and suggest that the ladies retire to the house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  For days he had drooped about the empty chicken run, too dispirited to crow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  Seeking the garden, she limped around the ruins, by the trampled rose beds the Wilkes girls had tended so zealously, across the back yard and through the ashes to the smokehouse, barns and chicken houses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  They had fried eggs for breakfast and fried ham for supper to vary the monotony of the yams, peanuts and dried apples, and on one festal occasion they even had roast chicken.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  The squatty log chicken house was clay daubed against rats, weasels and clean with whitewash, and so was the log stable.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
7  The Harry Haydocks gave the last lawn-festival of the season; a splendor of Japanese lanterns and card-tables and chicken patties and Neapolitan ice-cream.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  He takes a chicken once in a while, but I won't let the men harm him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
9  On Sundays she gave us as much chicken as we could eat, and on other days we had ham or bacon or sausage meat.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
10  There was no one who could make such excellent coffee or fry a chicken so golden brown as she.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVI
11  Twice he even managed to capture a chicken, and had a feast, once in a deserted barn and the other time in a lonely spot alongside of a stream.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
12  For a moment, in the great clamor, he was like a proverbial chicken.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
13  The guard lighted the lamps in the carriage, and Mrs. Medlock cheered up very much over her tea and chicken and beef.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  Pap always said, take a chicken when you get a chance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII.
15  I never see pap when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII.
Example Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  Stir-fry the chicken for one minute, then add the vegetables.
2  Lime preserved in salt is a north African speciality which is used to flavour chicken dishes.
3  I personally would rather roast a chicken whole.
4  Don't count your chicken before they are hatched.
5  I was making a million a year, but that's chicken feed in the pop business.
6  Cover the chicken with silver foil and bake.
7  Cover the chicken loosely with foil.
8  The size of the chicken pieces will determine the cooking time.
9  The beggar tore the chicken apart and began to eat.
10  BDownstairs, at the neighboring La Colonial Market, an employee barbecues chicken in a black kettle on the sidewalk.
11  I find chicken a little bland.
12  This chicken isn't cooked in the middle.
13  Most people who've had chicken pox once are immune to it for the rest of their lives.
14  There is a smell of fried chicken in this room.
15  Though the fox run, the chicken hath wings.