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How to use chicken in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Chicken means a domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus). Example: “Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.”

Examples of chicken by meaning

nounThe meat from this bird eaten as food.

  • tastes like chicken
  • Before cooking chicken, or other poultry, rinse with cold water and pat dry with a paper towel.1995, Jean Paré, Chicken, Etc., Company's Coming Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 7

nounThe young of any bird; a chick.

  • There they are – four ugly little chickens, a bit more than half-feathered, and all gaping mouths and bare bellies.1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 220

nounA young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.

  • Handsome studs, Tender Chicken, and lots of Male Nudes!1976 April 10, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 19
  • I am a little white chicken, beautiful as sweet and young as beautiful and soft as young and gay as soft and innocent as gay.1991 December 1, Ronald Smith, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 14

nounA confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the...

  • Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.
  • This was a dangerous game of chicken.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

verbTo avoid a situation one is afraid of.

  • For the umpteenth time, I chickened.1964, Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →OCLC, page 31

More sentences with chicken

  • A few hundred pounds' worth of chicken and serveral dozen eggs.From the entry hundred
  • I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.From the entry not
  • I was reading about chickens, and I guess I learned about hawks through osmosis.From the entry osmosis
  • The local pub was offering a chicken parma and a pot of beer for $8.From the entry parma
  • I'll make the sauce if you do the stuffing of the chicken.From the entry stuffing
  • The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.From the entry crop
  • We ordered half a chicken each, but we each got a whole one.From the entry each
  • You'll get a better flavour from the chicken if you marinate it first.From the entry marinate
  • After the chicken has marinated for two hours, discard the remaining marinade.From the entry marinate
  • I once saw a geek bite the head off a live chicken.From the entry geek
  • The climactic scene of “Rebel without a Cause” is the group of very daredevil teens playing chicken.From the entry daredevil
  • An idiomatic phrase that warns us against Pollyannaism is "don't count your chickens before they're hatched".From the entry idiomatic
  • The driver swerved and just managed to miss the chicken crossing the road.From the entry miss
  • She made a kind of polenta from cornmeal and chicken broth, with some cheese sprinkled on top.From the entry cornmeal
  • Add 3 tbsp of grilling sauce for every pound of chicken.From the entry tbsp
  • He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.From the entry remains
  • With a little practice, you can cut up a whole chicken yourself for frying.From the entry cut up
  • The hack comic produced a rubber chicken, to the groans and boos of the audience.From the entry rubber chicken
  • I’ve bought a chicken in case grandpa should stay to dine.From the entry in case
  • His hand got caught in a meat grinder and turned into chicken soup.From the entry chicken soup
  • The wolf held the chicken in a death grip until it stopped moving.From the entry death grip
  • For the diners, the effects of the chicken cacciatore, alas, were cacatory.From the entry cacatory
  • We'll need to bake more of those new chicken and mushroom pies. The customers can't get enough.From the entry can't get enough
  • Opponents see the latest indictments as a case of the chickens coming home to roost.From the entry the chickens come home to roost
  • I was a computer programmer in a past life, but now I raise pigs and chickens.From the entry past life
  • "A chicken ate my donut!" "Dey play: that donut was on the table. Chicken can't climb."From the entry dey play
  • Take the chicken out of the freezer.From the entry of
  • Have some chicken soup. It's good for what ails you.From the entry ail
  • Your dog's been a-chasin' those there chickens.From the entry there
  • This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?From the entry dry
  • Butterfly the chicken before you grill it.From the entry butterfly
  • You could fry up some chicken livers for a tasty treat. — Nah, I don't like chicken liver.From the entry liver

Meaning of chicken

  1. noun A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).
  2. noun The meat from this bird eaten as food.
  3. noun The young of any bird; a chick.

Full definition of chicken

Questions about chicken in a sentence

How do you use chicken in a sentence?
Chicken is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.”
What is a short sentence with chicken?
“tastes like chicken”
What does chicken mean?
Chicken means a domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chicken (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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