Sentence examples for about a hen from inspiring English sources

She likes "The Little Red Hen," the children's story about a hen who works harder than everybody else and reaps rewards.

The concluding performances, on Friday and Saturday at 11 a.m., are of "The Chicken Show," about a hen with Broadway aspirations and a sword (or at least a knife) hanging over her head: the Mean Ol' Farmer intends to turn her into a stew if she doesn't produce an egg by morning.

Ruth Ware makes the cut for her debut In a Dark Dark Wood, about a hen party that goes very wrong, while Clare Mackintosh's first novel, I Let You Go, which opens with a five-year-old killed by a hit-and-run driver, is also longlisted.

She's a little bit of a hen about the kids.

On non-industrial farms, it takes turkeys 24 weeks to arrive at slaughter weight, about 15 pounds for a hen and 24 pounds for a tom.

There's something very comical about the sight of a hen in hot pursuit of a startled grasshopper!

However, don't be too insistent on a variety, as new potatoes can be almost any variety of around 12 weeks of age, about the size of a hen's egg.

Bits of smoked boudin scattered about a guinea hen were almost enough to distract from the bird's sweet, lacquered skin, and wound up being the mysterious, funky dark to the hen's juicy lightness.

But the other version is about a little hen looking for help to make the bread.

Love isn't hearts and flowers and teddybears: it's hard-faced nans furious about a subpar hen do because they want what's best for their granddaughters.

Think about what egg consumption involves: a hen lays eggs to create a brood; we take the eggs; the hen lays more in a further attempt to create a brood and we take those, too.