Cockerels is an English word. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Cockerels meaning
plural of cockerel
Using Cockerels
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of cockerel
- In the example corpus, cockerels often appears in combinations such as: cockerels will, cockerels are.
Context around Cockerels
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cockerels
- In this selection, "cockerels" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, two, 000 and aggressive stand out and add context to how "cockerels" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 5 000 cockerels and 500 and and most cockerels will waltz. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cockerels" sits close to words such as aad, aadhar and aaro, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cockerels
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mature male chickens less than one year old are called cockerels. (11 words)
Katriona said: "Cockerels are lovely and they're just doing their job. (12 words)
On a Spanish farm they separated the hens from the cockerels – so the hens don’t get raped. (18 words)
Some more aggressive cockerels will drop and extend both wings and puff out all their body feathers to give the hens or other cocks the impression of a larger size, and charge through the hen yard like a bull. (39 words)
When other cockerels are in the hen yard, this waltz is used significantly more and most cockerels will waltz together if dominance has not been established; either one will back off, or the two cockerels will fight. (37 words)
Mr Nutsukpo said about 5,000 cockerels and 500 piglets for breeding stocks would be ready under the Breeding for Food and Jobs and asked the youth to take advantage of it. (32 words)
Example sentences (7)
When other cockerels are in the hen yard, this waltz is used significantly more and most cockerels will waltz together if dominance has not been established; either one will back off, or the two cockerels will fight.
Katriona said: "Cockerels are lovely and they're just doing their job.
Mr Nutsukpo said about 5,000 cockerels and 500 piglets for breeding stocks would be ready under the Breeding for Food and Jobs and asked the youth to take advantage of it.
On a Spanish farm they separated the hens from the cockerels – so the hens don’t get raped.
Mature male chickens less than one year old are called cockerels.
Some more aggressive cockerels will drop and extend both wings and puff out all their body feathers to give the hens or other cocks the impression of a larger size, and charge through the hen yard like a bull.
Some of them have been arrested at the British border for transporting cockerels or material for cockfights, which has led to a small cottage industry of British-owned cockerel farms.
Common combinations with cockerels
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: