How to use rooster in a sentence
11 example sentences · noun
Rooster means a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird. Example: “He strutted like a banty rooster.”
Examples of rooster by meaning
nounA male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
- Chalk a circle for a rooster.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 616
nounA wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting.
- In April they played Hens and Roosters, yoking their wild white and blue violets to see which would get its head pulled off.1946, Conrad Richter, The Fields, page 231
More sentences with rooster
- He strutted like a banty rooster.From the entry banty
- It was the Spanish rooster, the bird that produced coq feathers, that sacrificed the most plumage.2010, Deborah Davis, Party of the Century. From the entry coq
- Rooster tasted it with a spoon and said it was an Indian dish called sofky.1968, Charles Portis, True Grit. From the entry sofky
- It is true also that the roosters, especially during full moon, crow all night.1923 May, Lawrence Shaw Mayo, “The Shenando’ Valley”, in The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry full moon
- The roosters would look awesome, their beaks fearsome weapons.2004 Fall, Kit Coyne Irwin, “Blind Spot”, in The Kenyon Review, volume 26, number 4, page 108. From the entry as it is
- These girls with rooster hair I see on the streets.1990, Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry Brittany
- As it is, each rooster needed to be tethered to his own hut to keep them from pecking each other's eyes out.2004 Fall, Kit Coyne Irwin, “Blind Spot”, in The Kenyon Review, volume 26, number 4, page 108. From the entry as it is
- Certainly the hayhennies and crowing roosters (at all times of nights) and the breathlessness of the “air” don't encourage one to slumbers.1926, Hart Crane, letter, 30 July. From the entry hayhenny
- He cackled confidentially, like he knew more than he was telling, then threw his head back and crowed once and strutted in a full circle like a rumpled old rooster.2006, Jack Dawson, Reflections in a Curved Glass, page 31. From the entry full circle
Meaning of rooster
- noun A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
- noun A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.
- noun An informer.
Questions about rooster in a sentence
- How do you use rooster in a sentence?
- Rooster is used as a noun. For example: “He strutted like a banty rooster.”
- What is a short sentence with rooster?
- “Chalk a circle for a rooster.”
- What does rooster mean?
- Rooster means a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
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