Sentence examples for a chicken of from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a chicken of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a type of chicken or a dish made with chicken, often in a playful or metaphorical sense.
Example: "He ordered a chicken of the sea, which turned out to be a delicious seafood dish."
Alternatives: "a type of chicken" or "a chicken variant".

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"You can never cure a chicken of being an egg eater," she said, separating the chicken from the group.

The red fowl, a chicken of the deep-orange variety, at $12 for three birds, is the best-seller.

And the talented if uneven Joan Brown sneaks up on the outside track with two small paintings, including the wonderfully creamy and rather naked "Portrait of a Chicken" of 1967 and a larger one, "Things and Mess in a Classroom," which shows her adapting Abstract Expressionism to her own more figurative inclinations.

I have thought of the pathetic old professor in "The Blue Angel," whom Marlene Dietrich compels to cluck like a chicken, of the poor bastard in "Endless Love," of every mopey mope whom Frank Sinatra immortalized in his greatest loser anthems.

A chicken of my own, to one day go through menopause with.

Scrape off that KY Jelly and maybe you have a chicken, of sorts.

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Tuna was nuts, shaky, and worse than just unfriendly, a mean chicken of a dog.

It started in New Zealand (with the hashtag #frozenchook) and sounds like a headless chicken of an idea to us.

When Deen fries a chicken, many of us balk.

They isolated a chicken homolog of a fruit fly gene called "hedgehog".

When you think of a chicken you think of a chicken breast, not the eyes, wings, and beak.

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