How to Use cluck in a Sentence

cluck

1 of 2 verb
  • The hen clucked at her chicks.
  • The driver clucked at the horses to get them moving.
  • Commentators have been clucking over his lack of experience.
  • Your role here isn’t to cluck your tongue, but to find a safe and quick route past.
    — Matt Bean, Sunset Magazine, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Watch a few how-to YouTube videos and learn to cluck and moan.
    — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Dozens of chickens peck and cluck their way around an enclosure.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Each day the tawny redheads mingle and cluck, drink water and peck at their food.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2020
  • At worst, friends who saw the post might have clucked at my show of poor taste in the face of tragedy and then moved on with their lives.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs.
    — Arthur Allen, CBS News, 29 May 2024
  • The bird was curious and stood long minutes until Doc clucked again.
    — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026
  • August clucked his tongue and the cat came sidling up, arching its back, rubbing against August’s boot.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
  • One of them ate at Raising Cane’s last fall on a band trip, and hasn’t stopped clucking about the place since.
    — John Marks, Charlotte Observer, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Remember, judging is rude, too, so anyone who clucked at your choice as a faux pas was committing a faux pas.
    — Carolyn Hax, Philly.com, 8 June 2017
  • With a mouth call, a solo hunter can have two hands on the shotgun and still cluck like a hen turkey to call a male into shooting range.
    — Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 28 Apr. 2017
  • The loneliness must’ve broken our poor Mister Killer, the sailors would cluck over his body.
    — Jonathan Miles, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Even a trip to the restroom is a delight, as the sound of chickens clucking in the coop above the bathrooms welcomes you in the door.
    — Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The nurse rubs circles on her lower back, clucking at the struggle of turning the pregnant body to the side like a lopsided gourd.
    — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • These are old-school Southern snacks, ones that have clucked their way back onto menus at some fancy Southern restaurants.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2025
  • But really, since a season isn’t complete without a costume, out clucked a chicken, aka David.
    — Becca Kufrin, PEOPLE.com, 29 May 2018
  • The same goes for her father when there’s no sign of pregnancy and the judgy women at church start clucking disapprovingly.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Chicken sandwich fans have got something serious to cluck about thanks to some exciting news from Whataburger.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 21 May 2026
  • On a recent day Lein stood in one of her barns as a contented chorus of 9,400 chickens clucked and murmured.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2020
  • There were no festival premieres or breathless pundits clucking about having seen it months before everybody.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Next, the governor brings lawmakers back in a Special Session, and tongue-clucking know-it-alls (like me) chide them for how much all this costs.
    — al.com, 3 June 2019
  • From the bluffs, visitors can hear roosters clucking in Miguel Aleman and see schoolchildren and traffic crossing a tiny bridge.
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2018
  • This spring, Clase sits in a folding chair, chickens clucking away, and Luis Ortiz sits beside him, the two of them glued to the action on the farm.
    — Zack Meisel, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Her instantly recognisable song began with Barzilai mimicking chicken clucking sounds to loud cheers from fans.
    — NBC News, 13 May 2018
  • Because everything wants to eat them, a turkey flock will cluck, coo and gobble constantly to keep tabs on one another and let the others know if anything dangerous comes too close.
    — Jason Bittel, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2019
  • But once Ramadan ends, the brothers will once again return to the bubbling chainaki teapots, aging guests, and clucking chickens of Ka Forushi.
    — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Fitted with a special proprietary formula that allows the caller the ability to cluck, purr, and yelp when the box is wet, a waterproof box call is a must-have for rainy day turkeys.
    — Jace Bauserman, Outdoor Life, 4 Mar. 2020

cluck

2 of 2 noun
  • Don't be such a dumb cluck.
  • To bring a gobbler out of strut, give him a few clucks on a mouth call (but be ready to shoot).
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Republicans were able to get huge yuks and clucks out of that.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The cluck is just a series of high and low notes in quick succession.
    — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
  • To my ears the cluck of his call was even more seductive than the real thing.
    — Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Chickens cluck as students rush to collect eggs.
    — Alexa Liacko, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Pips and whistles, and the first whispery yelps—and there will be some bubbly clucks too.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 18 Mar. 2020
  • To subscribe to the Free Press for less than the price of a dozen eggs, cluck here.
    — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2022
  • Precede the yelp with a cluck, and listen intently for half a minute or so.
    — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Shapiro is almost too creepy, with the little clucks of her tongue and strange behavior.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 7 June 2018
  • Hens make a combination of clucks and yelps when calling to a gobbler.
    — Bruce Brady, Outdoor Life, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Geese on the ground cluck excitedly when other birds are circling above.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Next there’s the chuckle, a satisfied laugh, A cluck to yourself that feels good.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 25 June 2019
  • On their 33 acres, the clucks and crows from their flock of 60 chickens and two turkeys is constant.
    — Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Broody hens also cluck in a low tone, growl at other chickens when approached, and may keep their wings outstretched and their feathers puffed up.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Then there is the matter of Kidjo’s lustrous voice versus Byrne’s chicken-ish cluck.
    — Philly.com, 21 June 2018
  • What the cluck is going on in Kate Beckinsale’s family?
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
  • This premiere of the 12th season includes a horse with teeth troubles, chickens whose clucks have turned to gurgles and some high-strung emus.
    — Gabe Cohn, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Many still hunters use a step-step-pause cadence to mimic a deer waking or will cluck on a turkey call occasionally while scratching the leaves with a boot.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2024
  • There is also a sound detection software, which can infer chicken moods and behaviors through the pitch and pattern of their clucks, chirps, and alerts.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2023
  • For me, the Caribbean is the cluck of a rooster during sunrise, a coconut from a roadside truck to quell the afternoon heat.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
  • But don’t get carried away and string together too many loud, aggressive, irregular clucks and pocks that can drown out a turkey’s gobble.
    — Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 20 Apr. 2020
  • In this wordless piece of form-bending theater, an ensemble of eight makes their pleasures and displeasures known with aggressive clucks and herky-jerky movement.
    — Dusty Somers, The Seattle Times, 12 June 2017
  • Flat Rock has two chicken options, but with so many other food trucks dedicated to it, this isn’t destination-worthy cluck for your buck.
    — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The only non-aquatic industries are a nearby watermelon farm and the occasional cluck and snuffle of chickens and pigs.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 5 June 2025
  • With the pandemic raging, an encounter that days earlier might have ended in a friendly apology or a cluck of sympathy quickly turned ugly.
    — Melissa Chan, Time, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Chickens run and cluck around the Bennet home; the family’s clothes look worn, at times even dirty; the houses are cluttered, the people messy, their interactions chaotic.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
  • As concerns about public exposure mount due to the coronavirus pandemic, area residents are opting to get more cluck for their buck by raising their own flocks of backyard fowl for the egg supply.
    — Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 5 Apr. 2020
  • But Maggie is one of those somewhat sainted free spirits who light up everyday dreariness (at least in the movies), stirring things up while inspiring clucks of disapproval and censure.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020

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