henhouse

[ US /ˈhɛnˌhaʊs/ ]
[ UK /hˈɛnha‍ʊs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a farm building for housing poultry
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How To Use henhouse In A Sentence

  • Foxes in the henhouse is the rule, rather than the exception. Joshuah Bearman: Foley Versus Clinton
  • Winter freezes, for example, could take a ferocious toll on the henhouse, which was her responsibility.
  • And that allowed these two posing faux roosters to gain entry through the back door of the henhouse, which is probably how they gain entry anyway. Think Progress » Virginians Buck Far-Right Policies Of McDonnell And Cuccinelli
  • And in the soulful passages, he sounded as if he was knocking up a henhouse. PASSION IN THE PEAK
  • For now, however, the "foxes" of elitism and separationism are guarding the "henhouse" of NC diversity. Congress of Neighborhoods Dog-and-Pony Show
  • The egg carton explained that this egg came from the Columbian Blacktail hen, whose life inside a henhouse with ‘natural bedding and scratching materials encourage preening and dust bathing’.
  • This was roughly equivalent to inviting the fox into the henhouse, because there was nothing to prevent us from buttonholing the likes of the 50 heads of state heralded to be attending the CGI, as well as Morgan Freeman , Tony Blair, Chelsea Clinton , Trudie Styler and Sting, and writer Dave Eggers —not that I spotted any of them. Brush With Greatness
  • There were voices and laughter inside, sometimes an occasional cough, but other than these murmurs, it was no more than an ordinary henhouse with its over talkative roosters and conversing chickens.
  • I in addition to the foxes running the henhouse, that is. Undefined
  • All the animals on the farm reject the duck, until a twister threatens the henhouse, dropping the baby chicks in the river.
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