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'hen' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'hen' with 13 example sentences.


hen noun

: adult female chicken

: adult female bird

: flesh of an older chicken suitable for stewing

: female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster


  • About how many eggs do your hens lay a day?
  • That fox must have killed the hen.
  • There are three roosters and two hens.
  • The wolf snatched two hens.
  • The fox is eating a hen.
  • Roosters can crow but it's the hens who lay the eggs.
  • What came first? The egg or the hen?
  • Cows give us milk, and hens eggs.
  • The hens ran away. Idiots had left their door open.
  • It is essential to prevent salmonella contamination in hen egg production.
  • She hovers over that child like a hen with one chick.
  • He is a hen-pecked husband.
  • The pronoun "hen" has been approved in Sweden.
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