How to Use rooster in a Sentence

rooster

noun
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  • We heard the crow of a rooster.
  • The crow of a rooster and the ringing of a church bell at dawn.
    — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2021
  • During the day, the cave is filled with the sound of cows and roosters.
    — Photographs and Text By Bryan Denton, New York Times, 13 May 2018
  • The rooster had made it from the main coop to the secondary coop.
    — Martha McPhee, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Even a rooster that looks stone-cold dead in the air can hit the ground running.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The rooster was still in range when his gun spit out the last smoking hull.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 25 May 2020
  • And of course, there was the food: bánh chưng, bánh tét and the aforementioned rooster.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
  • There was the rooster who would chase him home every day from the bus stop.
    — courant.com, 6 Oct. 2019
  • Stop to play dominoes at the park and look over the rooster sculptures.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 25 July 2024
  • One rooster to eight or nine hens is about the right ratio.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The young rooster didn’t know how to socialize with the hens.
    — Joan Donaldson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2020
  • The rooster is about 8 feet tall and about 4 feet wide, Shabani said.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2021
  • If the neighbor’s rooster wakes you at the crack of dawn, try Nightingale.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The Canterbury Tales, in which Chaucer wrote about a rooster who was tricked by a fox on the 32nd of March.
    — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Then, one weekend, our young Labrador flushed a rooster a dozen feet in front of me.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Let the dog backtrack and work behind, too, as roosters like to slink out the back door.
    — Outdoor Life, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Parmesan, the youngest chicken, had ventured right up to the kitchen door with Yard Boy, the rooster.
    — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Even the rooster slept in on the rainy morning of my visit to Woodland Ridge Farm.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 12 May 2022
  • The group of birds is thought to include at least 38 roosters along with dozens of hens and chicks, Johnson said.
    — Ian Cummings, kansascity, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Moana's rooster Heihei and pig Pua are both back in the trailer.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
  • Billy and Buster — Buster being the rooster — were on time.
    — Scott Harrison, latimes.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Among the white, ashy rubble sat an iron rooster and a stone Buddha.
    — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The 66-pound copper rooster was found crumpled on a side roof; a new one will replace it at the top of the spire.
    — National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2022
  • There is a full-service bar and eatery and even a large whiteboard to track the winning roosters.
    — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 12 June 2018
  • Nothing mimics the flush of a rooster more than shooting a round of trap.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 10 June 2020
  • On my first walk through the village of Kontopouli, the roosters are crowing.
    — Helene Stapinski, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The winning rooster's owner takes home a $5 prize and a bag of chicken feed.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 24 Aug. 2022
  • At one point, Joel stood up from his piano and struck an arched back rooster pose.
    — USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
  • There's Cuthbert the goose, Lucy the goat, Kevin the rooster and a whole host of other farm animals to fall in love with.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Silence returns to the tower, giving the valley’s soundscape back to the birdsongs and rooster crows.
    — Joseph Wilson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2024

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