How To Use Cluck In A Sentence

So it's a little more than passing strange that Mr. Brooks clucks about Mr. Obama's "über-partisan budget" when, given the last few weeks of shrieking and wailing from the Republicans about socialism and communism, he's been the voice of moderation in the room. Moderately Shocked
She lay back in her bed, her companion clucking around like a motherly hen.
He worried over her like a mother hen clucking over her chicks.
Sound on 18 Doughty Street is mainly some sentences by one person and then cluck chunter chunter squak cluck cluk "so I think..." chunter, "But not withstanding" chunter,chunter. Steve Norris: 'Let's Get Out of the EU'
A number of our friends lined up for cuddles with the wee darling, and several photos of people who we had not hitherto suspected of being clucky fussing Rebecca now exist.

Chickens clucked about, scratching up dust into tiny dust devils with their claws.
He said he eats ‘anything that used to moo, cluck or oink - as long as it's cooked.’
Farmers usually keep farm animals to supplement their income, but a visitor to this farm will not hear clucks or moos.
So as often as I sincerely wish to throw a blanket over my teenage daughter before she goes out, I know I can't do this (although I can cluck, like a churchwoman, "Aren't you going to be cold in that, dear?"). Danielle Crittenden: Islamic Like Me: Is Western Culture More Sexually Oppressive Than The Burka?
The maid clucked her tongue and rolled her eyes.
He gave a cluck of sorts and began the lesson.
He eyed me curiously with amusement, ‘For a while there you sounded like a mother hen clucking over her chick.’
My old therapist called it hyper-vigilance and clucked as she made notes about examples of the behavior in my daily life.
One of the ambulance men leant over the body, clucking his tongue with a disapproving `tsk, tsk ". A DEATH IN TIME
The dumb birds swarmed me, flapping their wings like crazy, making clucking sounds, and pecking at my legs.
A partridge, indeed, with a brood of ten behind her, ran forward threateningly, but soon repented of her fierceness, and clucked to her young ones not to be afraid.
Don't know what it is that's making me so clucky lately, but I reckon it's the new addition to my now trio of adored and spoilt nephews way back in the motherland. Lily-white Diary Entry
Then, one day, a lovely sunny day with great tufts of primroses under the hazels, and many violets dotting the paths, she came in the afternoon to the coops and there was one tiny, tiny perky chicken tinily prancing round in front of a coop, and the mother hen clucking in terror. Lady Chatterley's Lover
Clucking the tongue is a good example, but there are plenty of others - kissing, spitting or slurping noises, for example, or naturalistic imitations of animal sounds.
Kidnappers just do not put up with disapproving glances and motherly clucks.
Chickens and hens cluck nearby and the cicadas start up their relentless refrain.
The auditorium was filled with barks, meows, quacks, clucks, hisses and croaks as more then 50 animals were judged on their sweetness, uniqueness, tricks, costumes, behaviour and appearance.
But as they grew, they took to following me everywhere, first cheeping like the tinkling of little bells, later clucking in animated adult discussion. Birdology
A former fêtarde* myself and still a bit featherbrained from it I shake my head and cluck my tongue on hearing those birds, beaks-a-begging, try to get out of jail time by pleading with the French cops, swearing that they are merely scatterbrained and not at all soûlard! étourneau - French Word-A-Day
A Krosan dragonette," Chainer said, clucking his tongue. Odyssey
Jackson filled in the form as best he could and handed it back to the nurse, who looked over it with a cluck of disapproval.
Ryan said listen, the cluck still had to make his payments; you realize that? UNKNOWN MAN #89
The banjo is played in the more rhythmic "clawhammer" style, which has a sound not dissimilar from a chicken clucking. Phawker
He jiggled the reigns and clucked at his team of midnight-black horses.
He uttered a clucking noise in advertisement of his friendliness, and Michael snarled at this black who had dared to lay hands upon him -- a contamination, according to Michael's training -- and who now dared to address him who associated only with white gods. CHAPTER III
I found myself clucking with approval as I inhaled my $5.95 three-piece meal, which came with two sides.
The older nurse clucked in a matronly manner and the two nurses, together, hurried the girl into the back room to find a doctor.
With that, he starts to do a strutting chicken walk, wafting his arms about and clucking and squawking to himself.
He made a noise which, had he been female, would have been instantly recognized as a sympathetic cluck.
When I reached the gate, I heard happy moos and clucks from the chickens and cows.
“And when the little butterball came out to dance, the queen just up and left,” Teddy clucked. Exit the Actress
We took the bumpiest, dustiest bus ride of our lives on the rutted dirt road to Southern Sudan -- chickens clucking at Levi's feet -- just to see firsthand the jubilation in Juba, where the south had just voted to become an independent country. The 'Trip': So Far, So Good for Both of Us
Meat-free" is not a phrase that goes over well in Cuba, an island where long-standing privations have forged a strong, emotional bond with food – especially cuisine that once oinked, mooed or clucked. It's Not Fun To Be A Vegetarian In Cuba
So it was reassuring when she clucked sympathetically at the bone-weariness I described, and suggested that I take a nap before the boys got back. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers
Goats bleated occasionally, chickens clucked and honks from geese could be heard sometimes.
She sat patiently while Mrs. Henderson removed the poultice, clucked over her knee, then bound it up in a fresh bandage. A RAKE'S VOW
I cluck my tongue at Carole, the way my grandmother clucks her tongue at me when I've said something utterly, wholly stupid.
At precisely eight o'clock the scarlet-coated guards on the coaches blew cheerful blasts on their horns, the coachmen clucked to their teams, and the procession moved off, bound for the four corners of the kingdom.
Instead, a farmer's son, Heaney sees it as the 'dark-clumped grass where cows or horses dunged,/the cluck when pith-lined chestnut-shells split open' (the latter a line that Hopkins would have welcomed). Heaney Agonistes
Right now, however, Lewis' sponsors and management plot her future in the darkened corner of the studio, as stylists dress her and beauticians cluck over her eye shadow.
For three hours at a City Council meeting, residents clucked over the latest debate ruffling feathers here: Should homeowners be allowed to keep chickens in their backyards? POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: July 15, 2009
With an exasperated cluck of his tongue he rushed to the shower, and got ready.
I'd toss out a topic and he'd cluck his tongue and point out ways my idea could be offensive and controversial.
The contestants primp and preen, surrounded by clucking coteries of friends and parents.
They clicked and clucked through interactive screens that taught them the elements of aviation. Steve Nelson: Kill the Computers and Save the Children
Another, suddenly struck by a hideous strabism, clucked, then becoming tongue-tied stood with her mouth open, the tongue turned back, the tip cleaving to the palate. Là-bas
If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly. Steve Maraboli
There were the sounds of punching and kicking, objects being broken, grown-ups begging for mercy, children crying, chickens clucking, dogs yelping and pigs squealing.
She made a face as she groped under the black hen, which glared and clucked at her but yielded a warm, brown egg.
At some point, usually around nine-ish, I would be faced with the inevitable headshake/tongue cluck/question from a customer about having a baby puppy out so late. With Love and Laughter, John Ritter
Kidnappers just do not put up with disapproving glances and motherly clucks.
I grumble as we make our way outside the hall where young women were clucking around, fixing every semi-finalist model's hair, make-up, dress etc.
A former fêtarde* myself (and still a bit featherbrained from it) I shake my head and cluck my tongue on hearing those birds, beaks-a-begging, try to get out of jail time by pleading with the French cops, swearing that they are merely scatterbrained and not at all soûlard! French Word-A-Day:
Farming at ‘Cartron’ in my day had become more of a hobby - free-range hens and bantams clucked and pecked around the open ‘plot’ area, supplying quality eggs daily.
The contestants primp and preen, surrounded by clucking coteries of friends and parents.
He pulled out his watch and clucked his tongue at the time.
Matrons in gem-hued gowns were clucking over the other debutantes.
It also means that when babies are brought in for everyone to get collectively clucky over, they aren't right next to my desk which is actually noiser than construction work and seriously stops me doing helpdesk properly. August 2nd, 2006
The clean-living singer has been getting clucky for a while now. The Sun
She lived on the top floor while all her hens and chickens clucked happily on the ground level.
Once could not genetically engineer a duck to make it cluck.
The bystanders shook their heads and clucked sympathetically.
The staff were clucking and telling her she was "misbehaving", as if she was a toddler. Johann Hari: This Was My Grandmother. The Way She Was Treated in the Last Ten Years of Her Life Should Be A Scandal
My hand was swollen and still bled every time the bandages came off, and my companions clucked over it every evening when they tried their best to clean it.
Pity Desdemona spends so much of that play in her nightie, he clucked, unpacking his goodies. Exit the Actress
If the artist's approach often tends to such simplistic judgements, it also degenerates into prissy political correctness and schoolmarmy cluck clucking.
Harmmed, who fussed around and clucked over the purchases like an anxious old hen. THE DREAM OF DEBS
The man clucked his tongue, as if he were feeling sorry for me, and moved forward to help me saddle the horse.
And every time she sees children she gets clucky.
He just smiled and said, ‘Mummy's clucky, isn't she, sweetie.’
I have perfected the art of the interested cluck during these kinds of conversations.
Once could not genetically engineer a duck to make it cluck.
The cluck-cluck of unnumbered generations of disgruntled mother hens?
A chorus of clucks answered the maiden when the door was opened.
During one acting class, when the students were asked to pretend to be chickens under a falling atom bomb, everybody clucked frantically and raced around the room.
Hundreds of Rockhopper Penguins and Black-browed Albatrosses sit on rocks and tussock clumps, wheezing, clucking, and whistling. Margie Goldsmith: Traveling to the Falkland Islands: Sub-Antarctica
Each new man into the hut had clucked sympathy for Adimov's mishap, each had thought that wise.
The documentary was unremarkable until the worthy journalist stopped to cluck over a small girl at a festival of some kind.
We have over a hundred so if anybody is feeling a little bored/claustrophobic/clean/clucky, your presence is more than welcom One of these days…
Throughout the showing of the film, we were bombarded with audience members around us clucking their tongues and making other sympathetic noises.
So I declined his offer, letting him cluck in dismay.
Goats bleated occasionally, chickens clucked and honks from geese could be heard sometimes.
The male clucks softly to the female it has chosen to be his mate, producing a sound similar to that made by females when calling to their young.
I too am so clucky when I see, smell or hold a newborn, they are just too precious .... but they grow up and I just don't have the energy! Nostalgia trip; birth
Margaret was temporarily silenced, but she still made displeased clucks as she looked her daughter over.
Lavalais said he eats ‘anything that used to moo, cluck or oink - as long as it's cooked.’
She clucked her tongue at Zane and shook her head disapprovingly. My Fair Succubi
Maybe the inevitable conversations about nappy rash and gripe water, far from making me clucky, will make me want to run out and have my tongue pierced and drink cider in the park.
He clucked his tongue in a mock disapproving way.
You dumb cluck, why'd you tell him?
He is handsome, but a dumb cluck.
Amidst grunts and clucks of disapproval, I managed to lose myself in the crowd.
There were a number of carefully segregated piles of pipes, rusted auto parts, and other assorted items between which half a dozen scrawny chickens clucked and pecked their way through the dirt.
Once it became publicized, the bureau's gaffe generated much clucking and snide comment on the nature of incompetence.
There's also the oddly neurotic clucking a broody chicken makes when emerging from her nest to drink, which prompts the other hens to aggressively chase her back to the communal clutch of eggs.
When I read, ‘academic freedom,’ I hear a very loud cluck.
If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly. Steve Maraboli
Last time I was there the tide was in, so the best we could do was walk along the prom, making clucking noises at the jet-skiers disrupting the peace.
Up until this point I had done no calling. (here's a tip never call if the bird is already coming your way) At this point I gave a single cluck with the always in my mouth diaphram call. What's your best Turkey hunting story? I'll tell one tomorrow.
In every gift shop, there are more cute infants to cluck over.
Actually, I think if I'm honest with myself I know this will be my last baby and that's why I'm feeling clucky.
She found herself again in sick bay, the doctor clucking over her in dismay.
She shook her head and clucked her tongue, as if she were disappointed in me.
Gil, with a cluck of his tongue and a loud smack of his lips, seemed satisfied with this.
Because they depend upon the low cost labor force provided by illegal workers and Rick Perry has done nothing to either stop the flow or enforce the law on those who run "afoul" of the law including chicken cluckers. Bay Area Houston
Her mother, dressed in ski-pants, enters and clucks disapprovingly.
The decidedly techier crowd on this site responded to her thoughts with tongue-clucking dismissal. Who You Calling MommyBlogger? The Web's Most Influential and Diverse Community Begs You to Stop Generalizing - Jory Des Jardins - MediaBizBlogger
Jewry takes the clucking appeasement of the Catholic cardinalate as indicative of our submission, it is mistaken. Menachem Rosensaft: The Nazi War Criminal and Jesus: Patrick Buchanan's Obscene Comparison
‘That's no way to treat a lady, Eric,’ his mother scolded, clucking her tongue.
Soon we'll be mooring up in a secluded creek where we'll drink champagne to the soothing sounds of water clucking against boat and the occasional splosh of a jumping fish.
The seamstresses cluck around a dummy, discussing a tuck here and there.
Ryan said listen, the cluck still had to make his payments; you realize that? UNKNOWN MAN #89
The bird," he writes, "flies over the snake with a 'clucky' chirp, and whenever the natives hear it in the dense scrubs they sneak in to discover the reptile, which is caught by being grabbed at the back of the head. My Tropic Isle
A quietness followed my outburst; even the chickens stopped clucking and tilted their heads in alarm briefly.
There were the sounds of punching and kicking, objects being broken, grown-ups begging for mercy, children crying, chickens clucking, dogs yelping and pigs squealing.
These humiliating fiascoes set the media off clucking and carping.
Ivy clucked her tongue and rolled her eyes, turning away from Missy as if she were trying to keep herself from pouncing on her. Ominous
Of course, conservatives will cluck cluck sadly and say that we're overreacting.
When the road was clear, a few villagers ran out of their homes and onto the road, dogs barking and chickens clucking.
She clucked her tongue, apparently in disapproval, and turned away.
At a cost of $3 million which took three years to complete, with the idea shopped around for six, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig clucked, "This is the first of what I hope is a series of academies all over America. Why America's Pastime Is Losing Its Identity
Joe made a chirping, clucky noise, the poult looked him square in the eye, "and something very unambiguous happened in that moment". TV review: My Life as a Turkey
Romon called over his shoulder as he clucked the team of horses into motion.
As soon as he asks the checkout assistant, three more of them appear and start clucking around.
Ethan made her feel 'clucky', she said she isn't sure she will ever become a mother herself. Home | Mail Online
Jessica clucked her tongue in sympathy when she saw his bruised arm.
Right now, however, her sponsors and management plot her future, as stylists dress her and beauticians cluck over her eye shadow.
She sat patiently while Mrs. Henderson removed the poultice, clucked over her knee, then bound it up in a fresh bandage. A RAKE'S VOW
She lived on the top floor while all her hens and chickens clucked happily on the ground level.
A quietness followed my outburst; even the chickens stopped clucking and tilted their heads in alarm briefly.
She had noticed nothing out of the ordinary with the rooster and hen leading up to the lay and neither appeared to be feeling particularly clucky yesterday, she said. Introducing the Four-Legged Chicken | Impact Lab
The LA Times looks at the process of “slabbing,” that is, encasing comics in plastic slabs, rendering them thus unreadable, and clucks its tongue: The only way you can be sure it’s mint
When I reached the gate, I heard happy moos and clucks from the cows and chickens.
And I'm still so stinking clucky, I'm seriously ready to steal a baby and call it mine. Lily-white Diary Entry
Street wardens patrolling the area found the birds clucking and pecking around and thought they had escaped from the nearby School Farm.
Just talking to them made me so very clucky again. Lily-white Diary Entry
Instead, all I got to hear was a bunch of highly professional people, educated and polished - moan and cluck their tongues at the 'conventionalism' of all the entries. State of Play Virtual Architecture 1.0: Contest Judges Say Enough with the Simulacra Already
L'avocat du syndicat, John McLuckie, a aussi envoyé une lettre à la station anglophone CFRA, demandant à son coloré animateur Lowell Green de se rétracter, pour des propos qu'il a tenus sur les ondes la semaine dernière, et qui inciteraient à la violence à l'endroit de M. Archive 2008-12-01
She tutted and clucked her tongue, shaking her head in accordance with the rhythm of her clucks.
Those who experienced couvade were the type who clucked and cooed whenever their babies cried. The Plight of the Pregnant Man
All they could do was cluck and purr, which is what they did for 15 solid minutes right in front of me. Undefined
He is handsome, but a dumb cluck.
Some of you cluck about not wanting to outdress your parishioners. Archive 2006-06-25
A hummingbird buzzed past our heads, and above, in a magnolia tree, the hill's resident flock of wild parrots clucked and chattered.
A warning to the ladies: Reading her blog will make you extremely clucky.
There were no horses bucking in their stalls, no chickens clucking on the ground.
Oscar descended upon him with reassuring clucks, all of which were duly ignored.
I've been getting ridiculously clucky lately.
Meat-free" is not a phrase that goes over well in Cuba, an island where long-standing privations have forged a strong, emotional bond with food – especially cuisine that once oinked, mooed or clucked. It's Not Fun To Be A Vegetarian In Cuba
There were no horses bucking in their stalls, no chickens clucking on the ground.
I larruped heavily and clucked every step of the way, and we made the trip just in time to be left. Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903,
As chickens cluck at our feet, he continues in his warm, soft voice: ‘They will never succeed in making me hate them.’
But for the rest of us, the meaning behind creatures' clucks, rumbles, and whistles remains a mystery.
Again, it should be known that the conventional "chirrup" (7) to quiet and "cluck" to rouse a horse are a sort of precept of the training school; and supposing any one from the beginning chose to associate soft soothing actions with the "cluck" sound, and harsh rousing actions with the "chirrup," the horse could be taught to rouse himself at the On Horsemanship
She shakes her head, smiles, and clucks her tongue.
Joe made a chirping, clucky noise, the poult looked him square in the eye, "and something very unambiguous happened in that moment". TV review: My Life as a Turkey
We took the bumpiest, dustiest bus ride of our lives on the rutted dirt road to Southern Sudan -- chickens clucking at Levi's feet -- just to see firsthand the jubilation in Juba, where the south had just voted to become an independent country. The 'Trip': So Far, So Good for Both of Us
The show fanatics behind kept clucking in disgust and making noises of disapproval.
The girl nodded, and as Microby Dandeline scrambled up over the wheel and settled herself beside her upon the board that served as a seat, she called a cheery good-by, and clucked to the horses. The Gold Girl
Modern Britain, nation of curtain-twitchers, lethally prurient, a country obsessed with hanky-panky, tuts and clucks and wonders if Mr. Hague is having a hot, steamy "pash" with the fellow. William Hague's Hotel Bedroom Boob
For a moment, she was occupied with the task of scrutinizing everything in the parlor, clucking her tongue in disapproval.
‘Thanks,’ he said but made no action to invite her in and with a cluck of her tongue she turned on her heels and began to walk away.
I shook my head, feeling the urge to cluck my tongue in disapproval.
She sighed frustratedly and clucked her tongue.
He says she is ‘cute’ and recalls how she spent time clucking over the daughters of both her friends at the wedding last year.
Elizabeth Eliza shook the reins, and pulled them, and then she clucked to the horse; and Mrs. Peterkin clucked; and the little boys whistled and shouted; but still the horse would not go. The Peterkin Papers
Edith clucked her tongue impatiently.
‘Oh I know,’ she said, clucking sympathetically.
With a geing groan grunt and a croak click cluck. 2 And my faceage kink and kurkle trying to make keek peep. 3 Are you right there, Michael, are you right? Finnegans Wake
He has now broken out of this first stage that seems to appeal exclusively to clucky women and mothers, and entered the much more interesting stage that appeals to dads.
If they ask if my eggs are fresh, I'll waddle around and cluck like a chicken and say, ‘Hey, they don't get any fresher than this.’
Then she looked down at her fingers, clucked her tongue, and backed away, stuffing her hands under her arms. Ominous
She clucked her tongue a couple of times, frowning slightly.
He clucked that putrid tongue of his and sighed a happy sigh, sending more dust pouring off the pedestal. Crossed
Goats bleated occasionally, chickens clucked and honks from geese could be heard sometimes.
The chickens clucked and scratched around his feet.
My mother is clucking over me again, trying to flatten my hair by licking her hands and pressing them down on my head.
His serenity makes you feel like a clucking chicken, scrabbling and pecking at the dusty ground, while he sits back and watches.
The departure of Elisabeth was like the departure of a mother; she had been the old hen of the group, clucking over everybody and their goings-on with men, while never having one herself.
My rooster had been trying to learn how to crow, with the occasional thwarted cluck, but finally a full cock-a-doodle-doo rang out across the yard.
The peepers, the clucking frog, and the bullfrog are the only ones that call in chorus. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
There is only one possible logic behind the claims of insensitivity, behind Fox News 'John Gibson's hysterical clucking about a "War on Christmas" and Bill O'Reilly's gangsterish calls for shoppers to avoid department stores that don't explicitly refer to Christmas in their holiday promotions. Stephen Elliott: George's Christian Right
The chicken clucked once, and resumed her former position.
Despots die and their wars are read about in history books; we cluck our tongues, shake our heads and wonder at their evil.
The geese honked, and the hens hopped about clucking, as she giggled and ran after them.
She shakes her head, smiles, and clucks her tongue.
The second daughter sat briefly on his lap and clucked him under the chin.

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