HEN in a Sentence

Learn HEN 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.

79 example sentences for HEN, such as:

1. Fat hens lay few eggs.
2. The hen pecked a hole in the sack.
3. This hen lays beautiful brown eggs.
4. The hen has hatched all her chickens.
5. Better is the neighbour's hen than mine.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hen
 n.  adult female chicken
 n.  adult female bird
Classic Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  The older, quieter cities were wont to look upon the bustling new town with the sensations of a hen which has hatched a duckling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  As she bandaged it for him, he explained awkwardly that when attempting to get into a hen coop at Fayetteville, he had been discovered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  Scarlett did not ask whose hen coop but patted Pork's shoulder gently, tears in her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  Pork would have taken shame to himself had he spent her money when there were unguarded hen coops along the road and smokehouses handy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  As he fussed over her, clucking like a hen, she gave herself up to the luxury of being taken care of.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  And poor Honey was always a man-crazy fool with no more sense than a guinea hen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
7  The circle of mourners kept its place all evening, and Dave Dyer did the "stunt" of the Norwegian and the hen.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  Under the glass cover of the dressing-table was a menu with the most enchanting dishes: breast of guinea hen De Vitresse, pommes de terre a la Russe, meringue Chantilly, gateaux Bruxelles.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  He ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
10  A hen strayed in; a file of cows passed the door; then a sheep dog; then the cowman, Bond, who stopped.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
11  She took her chair and looked through the smoke at a crude glass painting of a cow in a stable; also at a cock and a hen.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
12  Only one hen pecked at her hand with a fierce little jab, so Connie was frightened.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  For in a moment a tiny sharp head was poking through the gold-brown feathers of the hen, and eyeing the Cosmos.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  The old hen pecked at him, but not so savagely.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
15  Without knowing, he came quickly towards her and crouched beside her again, taking the chick from her hands, because she was afraid of the hen, and putting it back in the coop.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
Example Sentence:
1  It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
2  It is no good hen that cackles in your house and lays in another's.
3  Better is the neighbour's hen than mine.
4  Grain by grain, and the hen fills her belly.
5  The hen pecked a hole in the sack.
6  If the hen does not prate, she will not lay.
7  Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
8  This hen lays beautiful brown eggs.
9  The hen has hatched all her chickens.
10  He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
11  The farmer scattered the corn in the yard for the hens.
12  Fat hens lay few eggs.
13  I threw pebbles at the hens, and that made them jump and squawk.
14  Inasmuch as our supply of electricity is cut off, we shall have to rely on the hens to incubate these eggs.