How To Use Crowing In A Sentence
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He's always crowing about his latest triumph.
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Ben rushed to his father, crowing with pleasure.
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He was crowing with joy because he had run 8 miles yesterday as opposed to my paltry one quarter.
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She won the competition and won't stop crowing .
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The smell of wood smoke, crowing of roosters and shanty, tin roofed housing took me back to that Africa of long ago.
Chiapas as Bubba - Imperfection Personified
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Those Australians are bad enough when they are crowing about their inevitable sporting victories over these islands; now they will be insufferable.
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He then goes on to do his own ‘crowing’, that the new treaty is regarded by the French, as a triumph of British negotiation, and that is why they are complaining.
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Here's a play list for your listening pleasure, consisting of a Turkish long crowing breed, the Denizli, followed by a Koeyoshi (good crower in Japanese) and the Tomaru (black crower).
Boing Boing
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Very few composers in this period have wasted time in crowing over the internal contradictions of their predecessors.
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We were woken at dawn by a cock crowing repeatedly.
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Edwards is already crowing about his assured victory.
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Ilderim and I and the remaining three waited until nightfall, and then set off on foot to the thicket where we were to rendezvous; there were the first six horses and a sowar waiting, and round about midnight Shadman and his companions came clattering out of the dark to join us, crowing with laughter.
Fiancée
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The loony rooster next door insists on crowing at all hours.
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Residents said they dismissed the crowing as bluster, but noticed a dramatic change in his life in ensuing weeks.
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Had he been your own facebook friend or had he reliably follow-Fridayed you over enough months and illustrated to your satisfaction that he hated Palin and loved net neutrality (your ideological tests) and kept to the program, you'd be crowing right now not about how Washington got "anthropomorphized" but how people were using new media to empower citizens -- blah blah.
Can We Handle New Government? A Look at State Department Outreach to Twitter HQ
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December 20th, 2008 at 2: 01 pm indeed. an overwrought review of a sonic youth album for Ego Trip was the crowing achievement of my fleeting career in music criticism. noah callahan-bever – mid 90s berkeley carroll school represent!
Ego Trip | ATTACKERMAN
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If the phrase the cockcrowing be to be taken in this sense, then however we see that the people were assembled together before morning light: and yet I do not doubt but it ought to be rendered the cockcrowing, which might be made clear by many good proofs, if there were place or leisure for it.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Since my hairline is receding as fast as snow on a sunny day, I have no room for crowing, but your man Alex Massie there should get a haircut and change photos.
Matthew Yglesias » Fox News Panel Pans Jindal
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Instead of mounting a dunghill and crowing how well we have revenged ourselves on others, we might want to offer sound and sustainable ideas of individual, economic and social justice to ensure as far as humanly possible that every person everywhere has an equal opportunity to enjoy life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness.
Bin Laden's Death Raises Moral Issues
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Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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The Jewish doctors distinguished the cockcrowing into the first, second, and third.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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The crowing of the cock is a harbinger of dawn.
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As dawn approaches and the light level rises, you will hear roosters crowing and the night ambient sounds will die away.
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There are dozens of young hares running about aimlessly in the fields while young cock pheasants are crowing their heads off in every garden and potato patch.
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Thoreau talks a little about how he misses the cock crowing, along with other domestic sounds.
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Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
Mark 13.
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The Misna on which this Gloss is hath these words; "Every day they remove the ashes from the altar about cockcrowing; but on the day of atonement at midnight," &c.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Crowing begins at or just before the crack of dawn -- as my neighbours will testify.
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John laid himself stretched in the bed, and he left the bodach to toast himself at the fireside; but about the crowing of the cock he went away.
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And even if you score a triumph, avoid crowing about your success.
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At the ranch the roosters started crowing at 4am just a few feet from my head, shocking me to consciousness.
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And thus our Saviour meets with the arrogance of Peter, foretelling him that he should not have the courage he so confidently assumed to himself, but should within the time and space of cockcrowing deny him thrice.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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It was a sharp, angular face with high arching eyebrows and a mop of perfectly messy red-gold hair mixed with silvery gray crowing the head.
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Here you can see women washing clothes in the river, children chasing each other in narrow lanes, chickens crowing and dogs barking at strangers.
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My normal, nice, reserved Captain and partner was crowing.
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We always awoke to the sound of a cock crowing or a bird chirping and when we looked outside, we saw nature in all of her morning glory!
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Shortly after the Bhutto hit, the Pakistani government released a transcript of a phone call in which Mehsud yukked it up with a mullah crony, crowing: Congratulations to you.
The Longest War
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I wish you would stop crowing over his disappointment.
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A crowing little urchin beside is already waving the Union Jack which is ready to crown the edifice, if the Fates ever suffer it to be crowned.
Stray Studies from England and Italy
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Wanna bet come March 25th, if Sucker Punch underwhelms, that the media and behind-the-scenes execs will be crowing about how female action fantasies don't work?
Scott Mendelson: Why Wonder Woman belongs on television, where female superheroes thrive.
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With eagerness one turns toward the east, with angry impatience one marks the unchequered darkness; the crowing of a cock, that sound of glee during day-time, comes wailing and untuneable — the creaking of rafters, and slight stir of invisible insect is heard and felt as the signal and type of desolation.
The Last Man
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There are complaints here among commuters and weekenders about cocks crowing in the early morning and cowpats and mud on the road just as there are in England.
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The promotion is based around the customer being able to win unusual talking radios which have an alarm like a crowing rooster.
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She could hear about two, no, three different roosters crowing, sunlight just barely peeking through her window.
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The sounds are of a rural backwater waking up: crowing, barking, scratching, whining.
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A small trap in the path, baited with a mouse, to catch spotted cats (F. Genetta), is usually the first indication that we are drawing near to a village; but when we get within the sounds of pounding corn, cockcrowing, or the merry shouts of children at play, we know that the huts are but a few yards off, though the trees conceal them from view.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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He was crowing over winning the bet.
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We always awoke to the sound of a cock crowing or a bird chirping and when we looked outside, we saw nature in all of her morning glory!
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She could hear about two, no, three different roosters crowing, sunlight just barely peeking through her window.
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She is laughing, crowing with delight as she sits there, her head a mass of golden curls in the honeyed sunlight.
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Fresh eggs, the farm atmosphere, roosters crowing in the morning - the whole effect.
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It can be agreed that the player or team that loses most games has to pay a forfeit, such as crawling under the table and crowing like a cockerel.
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You had to dig nuggets out from him about his career because he hated it to seem as if he was crowing but this was one incident he would talk about.
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LOL You Hillabots crowing about a trouncing must not know PR s History NOR the fact that winning in PR is about as meaningless as any win can be.
Schneider: How did Clinton win big?
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There are complaints here among weekenders about cocks crowing in the early morning and cowpats on the road.
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In fact, he's crowing and preening in the spotlight that he's brought to bear on his actions.
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Like a number of her other works (including Giuliana, Real Girl, and Green Rooster, whose titular fowl is shown crowing at a television set), this piece provides clues to her system of visual cueing.
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The next morning, she woke up to the crowing of roosters at dawn, but barely lifted a hand or batted an eye to get up, returning to the lulling delight of slumber.
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As dawn approaches and the light level rises, you will hear roosters crowing and the night ambient sounds will die away.
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Instead of alarm clocks, there is a rooster crowing on a rooftop nearby.
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We've seen them all crowing that the movement is dead.
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Mark 13: 35, that space after cockcrowing is called the morning.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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The morning greeted us with an early sun rise, the village rooster crowing and the swish of a broom sweeping the sand court yard outside.
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At the crowing of the cock, the extravagant and erring spirit (that is, the spendthrift of a defendant) whether he be drinking arrack punch at Vauxhall, champaigne at the Mount, or brandy and water at the Eccentries, must kick off his glass-slipper, and hobble back to St. George's Fields, like the lame bottle-conjuror of Le Sage.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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Orlean's experiences with poultry-keeping are uncannily similar to mine; her crowing "hen" is Laura, ours was Loretta.
Jan Brett's Weekend House
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Then last night, he again grabbed his washcloth from his lap, waving it triumphantly in the air, bringing it to his face to inspect, crowing his pleasure with his own antics as I worked to clean up a messy behind, no hands free to retrieve it from his grasp.
Schadenfreude
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Still, throughout the three-week trial, DeLay was cockier than a banty rooster, crowing to the media that there was no way he could be convicted.
Jim Hightower: 'The Hammer' Gets Nailed With a New Nickname
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That young women were aiming to correct it was seen in some quarters as a rebuke to traditional feminist organizations; crowing about the value of intersectional feminism sounded like an insinuation that young outsiders were more capable of improving the movement than the women who had created it, women who did not necessarily see the changes as improvements.
Big Girls Don’t Cry
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The farm animals begin to stir, the roosters consider crowing.
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When we first got them, Bill and I spent many a morning lying in bed, laughing after having been awakened by our young rooster's attempts at crowing.
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We were woken at dawn by a cock crowing repeatedly.
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But it is not so; but it amounts to this sense, "Within the time of cockcrowing" thou shalt deny me thrice; for
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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The rooster crowing just before sunup woke Scott from a sound sleep.
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With eagerness one turns toward the east, with angry impatience one marks the unchequered darkness; the crowing of a cock, that sound of glee during day-time, comes wailing and untuneable — the creaking of rafters, and slight stir of invisible insect is heard and felt as the signal and type of desolation.
The Last Man
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The company has slipped back into the red just three months after crowing that it had reached break-even point.
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He was still crowing over the success of his Dallas showroom expansion and the blowout coming-out party.
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Nordstrom and his supporters are still crowing about winning the lawsuit.
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Openly crowing about overlording - er, overwatching -- the biggest land mass in the entire Islamic world is a prescription for seething resentment among the world's one billion Muslims, mainstream and otherwise.
Jackson Williams: George W. Bush Wants to Treat Iraq Like South Korea
