How to Use cluck in a Sentence

cluck

verb
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  • The hen clucked at her chicks.
  • The driver clucked at the horses to get them moving.
  • Commentators have been clucking over his lack of experience.
  • Watch a few how-to YouTube videos and learn to cluck and moan.
    — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Your role here isn’t to cluck your tongue, but to find a safe and quick route past.
    — Matt Bean, Sunset Magazine, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Geese honk in their pens and chickens cluck out of sight.
    — Andrew Cotto, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The sound of chickens clucking carries its way up the hill.
    — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 20 July 2019
  • Each day the tawny redheads mingle and cluck, drink water and peck at their food.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Dozens of chickens peck and cluck their way around an enclosure.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 10 Sep. 2017
  • August clucked his tongue and the cat came sidling up, arching its back, rubbing against August’s boot.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
  • With a mouth call, a solo hunter can have two hands on the shotgun and still cluck like a hen turkey to call a male into shooting range.
    — Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 28 Apr. 2017
  • There are some people that just can't dance, some people that can't sing (even in the shower), and some people that can't cluck, cut, and yelp like a turkey.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 24 Nov. 2020
  • On a recent day Lein stood in one of her barns as a contented chorus of 9,400 chickens clucked and murmured.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Next, the governor brings lawmakers back in a Special Session, and tongue-clucking know-it-alls (like me) chide them for how much all this costs.
    — al.com, 3 June 2019
  • Remember, judging is rude, too, so anyone who clucked at your choice as a faux pas was committing a faux pas.
    — Carolyn Hax, Philly.com, 8 June 2017
  • But once Ramadan ends, the brothers will once again return to the bubbling chainaki teapots, aging guests, and clucking chickens of Ka Forushi.
    — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2017
  • If that happens the rest of the world will cluck-cluck about TV ratings, but Nashville will devote the appropriate amount of concern to that issue, which is zero.
    — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 21 May 2017
  • But really, since a season isn’t complete without a costume, out clucked a chicken, aka David.
    — Becca Kufrin, PEOPLE.com, 29 May 2018
  • From the bluffs, visitors can hear roosters clucking in Miguel Aleman and see schoolchildren and traffic crossing a tiny bridge.
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2018
  • On her property on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana’s capital, Afrane’s poultry farm has three sheds where 1,700 chickens and roosters cluck, crow, and lay.
    — Stacey Knott, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2017
  • On a recent steamy summer morning, as chickens clucked and roosters crowed, German slipped on scuffed cowboy boots and started work at the construction site of a house down the road from his own.
    — Kate Linthicum, latimes.com, 1 Dec. 2017
  • Fitted with a special proprietary formula that allows the caller the ability to cluck, purr, and yelp when the box is wet, a waterproof box call is a must-have for rainy day turkeys.
    — Jace Bauserman, Outdoor Life, 4 Mar. 2020
  • With a focus toward fresh and local, the menu at downtown’s West Table Kitchen and Bar changes daily, but expect some sort of moo, cluck, swish or oink, including ribeye, duck, trout or pork chop.
    — Mary Ann Anderson, Twin Cities, 20 July 2019
  • Brooke and Steve Giannetti, designers and authors of Patina Farm, built a henhouse worth clucking about.
    — Natalie Schumann, Country Living, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Because everything wants to eat them, a turkey flock will cluck, coo and gobble constantly to keep tabs on one another and let the others know if anything dangerous comes too close.
    — Jason Bittel, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2019
  • The racist component to Andre's imprisonment is relevant to the plot, which is set in the '60s, but Golden doesn't do much with it beyond a little mild tongue-clucking about systemic injustice.
    — Noel Murray, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • For Gen Xers staring down middle-aged obsolescence, the Williams twins’ video provides a satisfying twofer: a chance to cluck their tongues at clueless youths while confirming the supremacy of their own touchstones.
    — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Laughter usually had a 50 percent participation rate; whatever made two of us laugh usually made the other two roll their eyes or cluck their tongues.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Her instantly recognisable song began with Barzilai mimicking chicken clucking sounds to loud cheers from fans.
    — NBC News, 13 May 2018
  • The celebrations sometimes ruffle the feathers of players - especially pitchers - watching at home, and some fans and media will follow by clucking out some nonsense about respecting the game.
    — Ted Berg, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2017

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