mother hen

How To Use mother hen In A Sentence

• He worried over her like a mother hen clucking over her chicks.
• He eyed me curiously with amusement, ‘For a while there you sounded like a mother hen clucking over her chick.’
• Then, one day, a lovely sunny day with great tufts of primroses under the hazels, and many violets dotting the paths, she came in the afternoon to the coops and there was one tiny, tiny perky chicken tinily prancing round in front of a coop, and the mother hen clucking in terror. Lady Chatterley's Lover
• Mother hen hatches her eggs in a farmyard and finds one of her baby chicks is a scrawny, ugly duck.
• Before she had left Holy Oaks, she had called the rectory and had spoken to Monsignor McKindry, uncaring that she was acting like a neurotic mother hen. HEARTBREAKER
• He seems genuinely excited about being able to tell us that pigs prefer to be clean, and that a mother hen is as protective of her young as, well, a mother hen. Nasty, Brutish, and Short
• The brunette hovered around her like a mother hen, watching carefully to ensure that she did not overtire herself, while the blonde hung back.
• Mr. Tully plays the prodigal, hirsute and nearly mute football hero Cornelius Rawlings , who returns to the family farm and his misfit brothers: Amos (Onar Tukel), a recluse who exorcises demons in grotesque illustrations, and Ezra ( Robert Longstreet ), a religious nut and crossdresser who flutters about like an obsessive mother hen. Bombshells and Boxers
• The cluck-cluck of unnumbered generations of disgruntled mother hens?
• At the rear the light cruiser Held maintained a dignified straight course like a mother hen. Bomber