How To Use Clucking In A Sentence
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There were no horses bucking in their stalls, no chickens clucking on the ground.
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She found herself again in sick bay, the doctor clucking over her in dismay.
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The decidedly techier crowd on this site responded to her thoughts with tongue-clucking dismissal.
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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
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‘That's no way to treat a lady, Eric,’ his mother scolded, clucking her tongue.
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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.
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A quietness followed my outburst; even the chickens stopped clucking and tilted their heads in alarm briefly.
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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.
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These humiliating fiascoes set the media off clucking and carping.
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When the road was clear, a few villagers ran out of their homes and onto the road, dogs barking and chickens clucking.
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As soon as he asks the checkout assistant, three more of them appear and start clucking around.
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A quietness followed my outburst; even the chickens stopped clucking and tilted their heads in alarm briefly.
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Street wardens patrolling the area found the birds clucking and pecking around and thought they had escaped from the nearby School Farm.
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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.
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There were no horses bucking in their stalls, no chickens clucking on the ground.
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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
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The show fanatics behind kept clucking in disgust and making noises of disapproval.
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For a moment, she was occupied with the task of scrutinizing everything in the parlor, clucking her tongue in disapproval.
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He says she is ‘cute’ and recalls how she spent time clucking over the daughters of both her friends at the wedding last year.
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‘Oh I know,’ she said, clucking sympathetically.
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My mother is clucking over me again, trying to flatten my hair by licking her hands and pressing them down on my head.
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His serenity makes you feel like a clucking chicken, scrabbling and pecking at the dusty ground, while he sits back and watches.
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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.
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The peepers, the clucking frog, and the bullfrog are the only ones that call in chorus.
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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
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The geese honked, and the hens hopped about clucking, as she giggled and ran after them.
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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
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He worried over her like a mother hen clucking over her chicks.
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He eyed me curiously with amusement, ‘For a while there you sounded like a mother hen clucking over her chick.’
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One of the ambulance men leant over the body, clucking his tongue with a disapproving `tsk, tsk ".
A DEATH IN TIME
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The dumb birds swarmed me, flapping their wings like crazy, making clucking sounds, and pecking at my legs.
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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
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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.
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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
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A Krosan dragonette," Chainer said, clucking his tongue.
Odyssey
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The banjo is played in the more rhythmic "clawhammer" style, which has a sound not dissimilar from a chicken clucking.
Phawker
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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
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I found myself clucking with approval as I inhaled my $5.95 three-piece meal, which came with two sides.
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With that, he starts to do a strutting chicken walk, wafting his arms about and clucking and squawking to himself.
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She lay back in her bed, her companion clucking around like a motherly hen.
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The contestants primp and preen, surrounded by clucking coteries of friends and parents.
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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.
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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.
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The contestants primp and preen, surrounded by clucking coteries of friends and parents.
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Matrons in gem-hued gowns were clucking over the other debutantes.
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The staff were clucking and telling her she was "misbehaving", as if she was a toddler.
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If the artist's approach often tends to such simplistic judgements, it also degenerates into prissy political correctness and schoolmarmy cluck clucking.
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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
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Throughout the showing of the film, we were bombarded with audience members around us clucking their tongues and making other sympathetic noises.
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Once it became publicized, the bureau's gaffe generated much clucking and snide comment on the nature of incompetence.
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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.
