Get to know Chicks better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Chicks meaning
plural of chick
Using Chicks
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of chick
- In the example corpus, chicks often appears in combinations such as: the chicks, chicks and, their chicks.
Context around Chicks
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Chicks
- In this selection, "chicks" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, old, dixie, osprey, now, enables and newsday stand out and add context to how "chicks" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 12 500 chicks were donated and 800 live chicks from the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "chicks" sits close to words such as adapter, antiquity and benchmarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with chicks
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Altricial chicks need help thermoregulating and must be brooded for longer than precocial chicks. (14 words)
At least 12 500 chicks were donated to women as part of empowering them. (14 words)
Davis has orders that will keep her busy hatching chicks at least through the end of April. (17 words)
Ms. Lynch, who was raised on her grandfather’s ranch in Texas, founded the Dixie Chicks, now known as just the Chicks, in Dallas in 1988 with Robin Lynn Macy and two sisters, Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire. (38 words)
The chicks were a replacement after Pine Tree Poultry owner Pauline Henderson went to pick up her order of 800 live chicks from the post office last Thursday and all of them were dead. (34 words)
In contrast to the dappled chicks of other gull species, kittiwake chicks are downy and white since they are under relatively little threat of predation, as the nests are on extremely steep cliffs. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Ms. Lynch, who was raised on her grandfather’s ranch in Texas, founded the Dixie Chicks, now known as just the Chicks, in Dallas in 1988 with Robin Lynn Macy and two sisters, Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire.
Ringing the osprey chicks enables Cumbria Wildlife Trust to follow their progress as they grow up, nest and start to raise chicks of their own.
A serious shortage of broiler day-old chicks has dogged the market with farmers spending nights at the retailers’ premises to buy the chicks, NewsDay Business has established.
But even after hatching, African finch chicks go on to copy the behaviour and appearance of their rival grassfinch chicks.
The chicks were a replacement after Pine Tree Poultry owner Pauline Henderson went to pick up her order of 800 live chicks from the post office last Thursday and all of them were dead.
Chicks hatch for cathedral peregrinesJump to media playerThree noisy falcon chicks hungry for food reveal themselves in a cathedral spire nest.
II is alleged that distributors of day-old chicks are making the sale of chicks conditional upon one buying a particular number of stock feeds bags.
Looking at a picture of a mother Oystercatcher with three chicks, Perkins adds that a dog in the dunes could crush the chicks in no time.
Altricial chicks need help thermoregulating and must be brooded for longer than precocial chicks.
In contrast to the dappled chicks of other gull species, kittiwake chicks are downy and white since they are under relatively little threat of predation, as the nests are on extremely steep cliffs.
The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.
Although the Chicks were no strangers to the Grammy Awards after racking up eight awards in the eight prior years, this five-trophy haul seemed like a bold statement by the Academy.
At least 12 500 chicks were donated to women as part of empowering them.
Back in my day the chicks took care of that themselves with a purse and a can of hair spray.
British Antarctic Survey researchers looked at satellite images that showed the loss of sea ice at breeding sites, well before chicks would have developed waterproof feathers.
But, I’ve been firmly cautioned about interfering with the raising of those chicks (if, indeed, there are some there).
By early December, ice in four of the five colonies had dissipated entirely, forcing adult penguins to abandon the breeding ground early and consigning the chicks to a premature end.
Class three at Kingsfold Primary School, Penwortham, have spent the past few months keeping a watchful eye on the chicks as they incubated.
Davis has orders that will keep her busy hatching chicks at least through the end of April.
Following the incident, the actor/comedian takes to Twitter to blast United, accusing the gate agent of hating 'White Chicks', his 2004 movie that also features his brother Shawn Wayans.
Common combinations with chicks
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the chicks 44×
- chicks and 17×
- their chicks 13×
- chicks are 11×
- dixie chicks 9×
- baby chicks 7×
- chicks have 7×
- side chicks 7×
- day-old chicks 6×
- chicks to 6×