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Example sentences for "rooster"

Lexicographically close words:
rooms; roomy; roond; roost; roosted; roosters; roosting; roosts; root; roote
  1. A little further on strutted one rooster who crowed: "This is Swanholm, surely all the world knows that!

  2. On way egg hatches and soon becomes a rooster which crows.

  3. She mistakes the blood of a rooster for that of human beings.

  4. In jungle she meets rooster and monkey, who tell her she is mistaken and advise her to return home.

  5. Her body is placed in a tabalang on which a rooster sits, and is set afloat on the river.

  6. The spirit Maganáwan sends his servants to secure the blood of a rooster mixed with rice.

  7. The rooster kills all the other birds at the fight, then the crocodile wins a diving contest, the deer a race, the mound of earth a wrestling match, and the monkey excels all in climbing.

  8. Three times we are told that the deceased is placed on a tabalang, or raft, on which a live rooster is fastened before it is set adrift on the river.

  9. Puts body of wife on a golden raft, places golden rooster on it and sets afloat on the river.

  10. The rooster did indeed make an impressive showing, lying in his border of dumplings, and the dish was much complimented when it was borne in by Alice.

  11. The rooster had been boiling steadily over a slow fire since morning, but such was his power of resistance that his shape was as firm and handsome in the pot as on the first moment when he was lowered into it.

  12. When a rooster wants to be killed, I want somebody else to eat him, not me!

  13. The red rooster suddenly broke, tossed with his legs to heaven outside the chalk lines.

  14. He couldn't tell a rooster from a hen, not he.

  15. The old rooster was so accustomed to his master, indeed, that he allowed himself to be taken from the perch without a single squawk, and the boy took his captive beyond the pen.

  16. Once, when the big rooster canted his head and looked into his face, the boy had to wink away the tears; but he thought of the man so near death in the attic, he felt the clumsy boots on his feet, and his heart grew strong again.

  17. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.

  18. He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed.

  19. To-day has come your tamer, The Father of Rooster Tamers, To run you out of Torreon-- To the devil with your skins!

  20. A good rooster will crow in any chicken-coop," capped Isidro.

  21. The men poured out into the night where, in the flare of a torch, the owner of the losing rooster sold bottles of strong drink.

  22. He stood awhile, and at length said, "We lost our best rooster when Mrs. Henry came to live hyeh.

  23. Next mawnin' early she walked out to view her new home, and the rooster was a-feedin' by the door, and he seen her.

  24. Yu' see, that rooster he'd always lived round hyeh when the Judge was a bachelor, and he never seen no ladies or any persons wearing female gyarments.

  25. He killed the rooster and gave the old man the ten dollar Confederate bill and stayed right there, while the rebels took his back track.

  26. He had a large rooster and some chickens running about.

  27. The old cock-pheasant had passed through the crowd and vanished at the double down the hedge, and the big rooster was slowly subsiding into a pool of his own blood, from which he was destined never to rise again.

  28. The old pheasant got to his feet just as the rooster who owned the outfit came racing up, panting and red.

  29. The rooster sat on his heels, met by a blow in the chest that seemed to take all the wind from his sails, so to speak, and would have drawn off to reconsider things if he had not promptly become more busy than ever before in his life.

  30. However, he agreed that many believed that a rooster crowing in front of the door meant that a stranger was coming and that an owl screeching was a sign of death.

  31. Fowls= We had a rooster that was raised from a biddie and for 5 years this rooster practically lived in the house and would not sleep any place but on the foot of the bed.

  32. The phenomena exhibited by the rooster were quite interesting.

  33. They have tossed sleeplessly on their downy beds, wondering if there was no balm in Gilead, no rooster there.

  34. He always chips in towards a collection, a wake or a rooster fight, and the town swears by him.

  35. Washington, did you open it when you put your rooster in there?

  36. I jest know mah Shanghai rooster needs some corn, an' as for dat crazy man, maybe he's broken loose.

  37. The rooster crowed as if glad to be nearing the earth.

  38. The rooster held back and came on with long but unequal strides, Never halting, the turkey led him into the full publicity of the open yard.

  39. He carried a game rooster in a sack for the boy Tom.

  40. Before help came the old rooster was badly cut in the neck and breast.

  41. And the egg having been produced in court, the rooster was duly convicted and he together with his miraculous egg were publicly and with all due solemnity burned in the public square.

  42. Three hens and one rooster were scratching about the flat stone at the kitchen door.

  43. Mr. Pemberton had a seven-hundred-pound pig, and Mr. Hobson a rooster more beautiful than a bird of Paradise.

  44. Aunt Chris made me read about him and his old cherry tree when I told her the red rooster was setting, because I didn't want her to kill him.

  45. A rooster crowed shrilly, and he turned in the direction of the barnyard.

  46. But when the bargain was concluded he lingered and added shamefacedly: "Won't you please let that red-and-black rooster live as long as you can?

  47. Eugenia, who was hovering by, burst into tears and declared that the rooster should not die.

  48. Well, Simon prided himself on being so big, and it was not pleasant to him to find himself suddenly become so small that a large rooster could have looked down upon him.

  49. The only song that the rooster could ever sing was the one in Mother Goose, about the dame losing her shoe and the master his fiddle-stick, at which Professor Mocking-bird couldn't help smiling.

  50. If a rooster crows anywhere near your door somebody is coming "and you might as well look for 'em, 'cause that rooster done told you".

  51. If a rooster crows on your back steps you may look for a stranger.

  52. Dem Niggers never stopped prayin' and testifyin' to de Lord, 'til de white folkses had done got dat runaway slave and de rooster out of de steeple.

  53. He said dat when de guilty ones tetched it de old rooster would crow.

  54. Right den a old rooster what he had stole up and crowed so loud it seemed lak Gabriel's trumpet on Judment Day.

  55. He put a big rooster in a coop wid his haid stickin' out.

  56. He told me too ter get a rooster and let him stay on my porch all the time and he couldn't get ter me no more.

  57. The chickens were duly fed, but Dick still puzzled over the unchastized rooster until Marian enlightened him later.

  58. They're exactly like that little buff cochin rooster you laugh at, because he tries to crow and strut before he knows how.

  59. If you wish you may cut the tips from raw rooster combs, put in boiling water for a minute, when they can be rubbed with salt to remove the skin.

  60. Garnish with whole truffles heated in sherry wine, and whole heads of mushrooms fried in butter, rooster combs, rooster fries, and sauce Madere around the platter.

  61. Now the rooster squawked an impudent word Whereat the angered cowboy threw His lariat at the haughty bird And choked him until his gills were blue And his eyes hung out an inch or two.

  62. A rooster flapped his wings and crowed A merrysome cockadoodledoo, As out of the west a cowboy rode To the land where the peach and the clapboard grew, Humming a gentle tralalaloo.

  63. Illustration: The rooster and the mirror] The rooster stopped quite still when he saw himself in the mirror.

  64. He strutted over to the big rooster and caused quite a flutter in the henhouse by saying: "We're lively enough when our crops are full, but when we are starving, it is a wonder that we can hold our heads up at all.

  65. The white rooster was the loudest of all, and the little bantam rooster stretched his neck and did the best he could.

  66. Just then a brave little white bantam rooster hopped down from his perch.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rooster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    boar; broiler; brooder; buck; bull; chick; chicken; cock; dog; duck; fowl; gander; gobbler; goose; hen; peacock; poultry; pullet; ram; roaster; rooster; stag; stallion; steer; stud; tomcat; turkey