How to Use coop in a Sentence

coop

1 of 2 noun
  • The girls would meet by the coop.
    — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
  • Maybe Sofía left the door to the coop open.
    — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
  • The rooster had made it from the main coop to the secondary coop.
    — Martha McPhee, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
  • My birds have a coop that has chain link on the front and one side (leeward side).
    — oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2021
  • There were chickens to feed, a coop to scrape, eggs to collect.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • The chicken coop at Bloom Ranch.
    — Martine Thompson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Like the house, the coop features black and white paint and a double gable roof.
    — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Holding her breath, Ana poked her head into the coop.
    — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
  • Filling out the chicken coop are British stars young and old.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2022
  • There is also a former chicken coop that now hosts a cedar sauna.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The windows in your coop can make a big difference.
    — Shagun Khare, Martha Stewart, 4 June 2026
  • Tomlin is a great coach who can scrape the coop and make chicken salad.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Read more about the home and see what a luxury chicken coop looks like.
    — Dallas News, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The key for me was being able to scrape the coop and make chicken salad out of it.
    — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Kraus had a puncture wound on his left leg and a trail of blood from the house to a chicken coop outside.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • But the chickens remain in their eggs and shouldn’t be counted on to hatch on the right side of the coop.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2023
  • When your leaders fly the coop, who remains to transmit the culture to the next group?
    — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • This cat house may look like a chicken coop, but it’s definitely meant for cats.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 29 June 2022
  • He’s built a coop on the north end of his plot to house 3,000 chickens and chicks.
    — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Her home and chicken coop are in the woods, often surrounded by snakes.
    — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The coop apartment units face a central courtyard and parking lot.
    — Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • In one photo, the siblings held chickens from the chicken coop.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2022
  • CoreWeave’s chicken coop days gave it a good foundation for that skillset.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The kids sweep floors, collect eggs from the chicken coop, chit chat with the animals.
    — Jesse Remedios, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The five-acre lot features farmland, a barn, a chicken coop and a small greenhouse.
    — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Fruits and vegetables are grown on-site, and there’s a bee apiary and chicken coop.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The King watched some kids plant lavender and joined in feeding chickens at the coop.
    — Elise Hammond, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Steele, for instance, hung a matching curtain over the door from the coop out to the chicken run.
    — Shagun Khare, Martha Stewart, 4 June 2026
  • The pair live in a house, not a castle, and tend to their chicken coop rather than attend royal events.
    — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 25 June 2021
  • Behind that are chicken coops sure to entrance youngsters.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025

coop

2 of 2 verb
  • By now your kids — and you – have been cooped up inside the house long enough.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 2 Jan. 2018
  • Celebrities are cooped up in their homes across the country just like the rest of us.
    — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Not dressed for red carpets or cooped up in hotels, but getting to roam around outdoors.
    — Steven Klein, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2018
  • My 3-year-old boy and my parents cooped up at home every day, never going out.
    — Chris Buckley and Adam Wu, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017
  • The roommates, who felt cooped up at their nearby home, jogged and bumped a volleyball as the sun beat down.
    — Max Londberg, Cincinnati.com, 9 Apr. 2020
  • So how has being cooped up at home changed your understanding of this music?
    — David Allen, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Those smart and considerate enough to stay at home these days are feeling a little cooped up.
    — Kent Somers, azcentral, 5 Apr. 2020
  • By then, players were exhausted after a week cooped up in hotel rooms.
    — Joan Niesen, SI.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Many patients in the cardiac intensive care unit are conscious and have been cooped up for weeks.
    — Liz Kowalczyk, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • So the couple was forced to stay cooped up in the home of He's parents for the next 10 days.
    — Kellie Hwang, Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Keeping them cooped up, with no facility to do anything with them.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2018
  • But there was deep concern that with people not working and cooped up in homes, problems can fester.
    — Ricardo Torres, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2020
  • Take 30 kids who have been cooped up all winter, kids armed with their own Nerf guns ready to do battle.
    — Sara Clarkson, chicagotribune.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Nine hours is a long time to be cooped up in a plane without a real bathroom—or to be stuck in a small space with the smell of your own fart.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2018
  • Some residents cooped up inside all day Sunday emerged from their homes for the first time since the attacks.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2017
  • But, Murphy said, too often today's kids are cooped up inside, looking at a screen.
    — Mandi Wright, Detroit Free Press, 5 Dec. 2019
  • That doesn't mean Kate has been cooped up in Kensington Palace nonstop for half a year.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Sep. 2018
  • As people remain cooped up indoors, mental health is an important aspect of their lives to keep in mind.
    — Chevall Pryce, Houston Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2020
  • And that was part of it, being cooped up with some people in a little metal box for hundreds or sometimes thousands of miles.
    — Jake Woolf, GQ, 2 Mar. 2018
  • After months cooped up inside and navigating wet or icy roads, blue skies and warm weather are reason enough to load up your car and hit the highway.
    — Alex Leanse, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Look, my husband had a full baby with a woman he was involved with for 15 years… where I was cooped up only to be a show pony.
    — Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com, 12 June 2019
  • The adorable video provided cheer to children and parents cooped up inside with schools closed and travel advisories in effect across the state.
    — Akeem Glaspie, Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Of course, Lane finds away to make sure Cooper isn’t constantly cooped up inside a tour bus 24/7.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 18 Nov. 2019
  • When that somebody is moms, you’d rather not be cooped up in the basement all weekend fluffing and folding other people’s underwear.
    — Brooke Kosofsky Glassberg, Good Housekeeping, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The concept covers reading, art and physical education and gives children a chance to get out and not feel cooped up inside all day.
    — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 24 Mar. 2020
  • My cousin, Katerina, and I had been cooped up all week waiting for the storm but nothing was happening.
    — As Told To Alexa Tsoulis-Reay, The Cut, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Back in the heyday of South Baltimore pigeon clubs, people kept racing pigeons cooped up there.
    — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Evans’s prodigal son certainly seems none too thrilled to be cooped up as the gumshoes sleuth around the family estate, cursing out his relatives one by one.
    — Isaac Feldberg, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2019
  • Adam also mentions in the trailer that a storm is heading towards Houston — even more reason to get the kids out of the house before rain keeps them cooped up.
    — Temi Adebowale, Country Living, 28 June 2018
  • About 20 thoroughbreds were cooped up in stalls, standing on fresh wood shavings, unable to train properly because the track had been locked up for days.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2018

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