Sentence examples for hen-peck from inspiring English sources

And that learning period is a barrier to SwiftKey's Note app taking off with virgin users — especially as iOS users have been conditioned (through lack of keyboard choice) to hen-peck out individual letters on Apple's iOS keyboard and lean on autocorrect for a little typo help (or hilarity).

Now there are 13 hens pecking around the yard.

Hens peck in the yard, 200 clucking strong.

Hens peck away in the undergrowth while rabbits spring in and out of bushes.

At the end of a long day it is really satisfying to watch the hens peck about on the grass.

Full debeaking to prevent hens pecking each other is no longer allowed either, but beak clipping is still permitted in egg-laying hens.

In her 1961 poem "Grace," Maxine Kumin described hens pecking on gravel and the invincible armor one might gain by similarly ingesting small stones.

But on the beaten earth floor of the compound, hens peck at the remains of millet pounded for earlier meals that in most homes would be swept away.

But on the beaten earth floor of the compound, hens peck optimistically at the remains of millet pounded for earlier meals that in most homes would be swept away.

Toward the end of our walk, as we were heading for his car, he told me, "I usually walk a little farther than this, but I usually have it figured out a bit better — ooh, chickens!" In the front yard of the house next to where we had parked, a pair of hens pecked at the grass, perilously close to the road.

His instant ambition, even on his arrival as chaplain, is to "be in effect the bishop of Barchester" controlling his dithering boss, Dr Proudie ("an insignificant goose"), in a temporary alliance with the hen-pecking Mrs Proudie, but playing the two off against each other.