Sentence examples for chicken about from inspiring English sources

The phrase "chicken about" is not a correct or commonly used phrase in written English.
It is possible that it could be used in informal speech to describe someone who is acting timid or hesitant, but it would not typically be used in written English. A more commonly used phrase could be "chickening out", which means to back out of something due to fear or apprehension. Example: Sarah was supposed to go bungee jumping, but she was chickening out at the last minute.

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Turn the chicken about 15 minutes in.

Vegetables alone take about 10 minutes; with the chicken, about 20 minutes.

Photo: NEXT -- A chicken about to be immunized at a farm near Vladikavkaz, Russia.

"I'd be voting for him too, if I wasn't so chicken about a Bush presidency".

Try the mole de Huitlacoche, a sauce made with corn fungus, served over chicken (about 77 pesos).

The ghee roast chicken (about 600 rupees) and haagalkkai kabbu saaru, a mild curry laced with squash and bits of sugar cane (425 rupees), are also popular.

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If you're hatching your own chickens, about half of them will be roosters.

Bring me a whole fried chicken.' About that time these three cousins come in, you know the ones I mean, Klu, Kluck, and Klan, and they say: 'Boy, we're givin' you fair warnin'.

One whole chicken is about 30,000 rupiah.

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