How to Use rooster in a Sentence

rooster

noun
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  • The crow of a rooster and the ringing of a church bell at dawn.
    — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • And of course, there was the food: bánh chưng, bánh tét and the aforementioned rooster.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
  • One rooster to eight or nine hens is about the right ratio.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The rooster is about 8 feet tall and about 4 feet wide, Shabani said.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • The neighbors are more bothered by Emilio’s rooster, whose crowing wakes them up at the crack of dawn.
    — Time, 28 July 2023
  • The house was cleaned, the rice crop harvested and a rooster raised to sacrifice for the altar.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
  • There's the rat, the ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig.
    — James Brown, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2022
  • At one point he was recorded stroking a rooster in the prison, flashing a massive gold ring.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Here Rafo, who named his fighting rooster Macho, is the pupil.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The former Spice Girl, 49, posted a photo of the young rooster standing in a beam of sunlight at the door of their coop.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 31 Dec. 2023
  • One of her daughters had rescued a rooster that had been abandoned in a park.
    — Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune, 13 Nov. 2020
  • No man ever killed a rooster pheasant by shooting it in the tail.
    — Field & Stream, 31 Dec. 2020
  • And what about Koo Koo Roo, with that winking rooster logo and friendly staff, both as bright and cheery as the sun?
    — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Nelson is 58 years old and white, with short hair, an earnest face, and movements that remind me of a rooster.
    — Katie Prout, The New Republic, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The rooster has had a perch at football and baseball games at South Carolina the past two decades.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The sunrise crow of a rooster may wake guests in time to help milk the cows and bottle-feed the calves before the breakfast bell starts clanging.
    — Paula Wolf, National Geographic, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The Mass got its name from folklore, which says the rooster crowed at midnight only on the night Jesus was born.
    — Gina Rich, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The rooster version had an orange tint, while the Underwood showed a brick-red hue.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Another four roosters were found dead in a nearby barrel.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The Facebook post has hundreds of comments and reactions, most involving jokes at the rooster’s expense.
    — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 3 June 2024

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