Wondering how to use Cluck in a sentence? Below are 8 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as clucking or cry.
Cluck meaning
- The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
- Any sound similar to this.
- A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
Using Cluck
- The main meaning on this page is: The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks. | Any sound similar to this. | A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
- Useful related words include: clucking, cry, click, clack.
Context around Cluck
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cluck
- In this selection, "cluck" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, good, birds, people, finishing, chicken and similar stand out and add context to how "cluck" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and can cluck similar to and and clara cluck in the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cluck" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cluck
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Good cluck finishing this bad boy. (6 words)
Umpires are starting to cluck about the light again during Hull's fourth over. (14 words)
Around me, people cluck with sympathy: “You’re lucky you escaped with your life”. (14 words)
In a powerful scene, a group of birdcatchers trips and falls as the birds cluck and dance around them — symbolising that the human race is fighting a losing battle with nature. (31 words)
For animal sounds, words like quack ( duck ), moo ( cow ), bark or woof ( dog ), roar ( lion ), meow miaow or purr ( cat ), cluck ( chicken ) and baa ( sheep ) are typically used in English. (30 words)
Before hatching, the hen can hear the chicks peeping inside the eggs, and will gently cluck to stimulate them to break out of their shells. (25 words)
Example sentences (8)
Good cluck finishing this bad boy.
Umpires are starting to cluck about the light again during Hull's fourth over.
In a powerful scene, a group of birdcatchers trips and falls as the birds cluck and dance around them — symbolising that the human race is fighting a losing battle with nature.
Around me, people cluck with sympathy: “You’re lucky you escaped with your life”.
Before hatching, the hen can hear the chicks peeping inside the eggs, and will gently cluck to stimulate them to break out of their shells.
Daisy is a close friend of Clarabelle Cow and Clara Cluck in the comics, and Minnie Mouse 's best friend.
For animal sounds, words like quack ( duck ), moo ( cow ), bark or woof ( dog ), roar ( lion ), meow miaow or purr ( cat ), cluck ( chicken ) and baa ( sheep ) are typically used in English.
Roosters have several other calls as well, and can cluck, similar to the hen.