Sentence examples for pullet from inspiring English sources
The word "pullet" is correct in written English
It refers to a young female chicken, typically under one year old, and is used in agricultural or culinary contexts. Example: "The farmer raised several pullets to eventually produce eggs for the market." Alternatives include "young hen" or "female chick."
noun
A young hen, especially one less than a year old.
In 1661, the evening of Christmas Day itself finds him back in the office – "practising arithmetique alone" – but only after scoffing at home "a mess of brave plum-porridge and a roasted pullet for dinner; and I sent for a mince-pie abroad".
I didn't want to stop.I was breathing from some bright reserve.We twisted each pullet into plastic, iced and loaded them in the cars.I loved the truth.
Speak de word agin' and speak it loud — Blame de lan' let white folks rule it, I'se a lookin fu a pullet, "Rule it" and "pullet" — well, Dunbar had to make a living, too.
The whole young chicken soup with ginseng and rice ($18.95) is exactly that, an entire poached pullet, in broth with a side of sea salt.
I can't afford Cristal; I'm never buying pullet eggs again.
From a farm in Vermont he had scored a stack of pullet eggs, which are the rich, yolky product of a young hen.
"You guys are bananas!" He gives Carson the same treatment; McMahon joins in; and by the end the floor and the three combatants are awash with what Falstaff would have called "pullet-sperm".
Many of the hens dying from the disease are younger and no pullets had been planned to replace them yet, Elam said.
More than 350,000 pullets have been lost to bird flu – a very small portion of the 50m egg-type chicks hatched in March, but it compounds the replenishment problem.
Deep into old age she went out each evening to feed her flock, in Barbour and wellies if required, enjoying the argy-bargy of the older birds with the neat and elegant pullets.
In feathery handwriting, William Gordon, the clerk of the kitchen, had recorded the menu: THEIR MAJESTIES DINNER Soupe barley 4 chickens roasted 3 pullets minced and broiled 7 ¾ mutton collop pyes 6 perch boiled 2 breasts of lamb a la pluck 2 salmic of ducks 13 loin veal smort That was the first course.
