Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hens
IPA transcription: [h'ɛnz]
Usage examples
  • "Hens at a dollar apiece?"
  • But then came the cock, with all the hens.
  • One reads in the newspapers of hailstones the size of hens' eggs.
  • So long as the hens lay eggs and the cow gives milk we can have omelettes and junket.
  • I always knew that hens were stupid little creatures but you are quite the stupidest little hen I ever saw in all my life."
  • Going out through the tunnel, I gave the hens their corn, emptied the ice from their drinking-pan, and filled it with water.
  • The cow, the hens, and even the pigs, came in for a share of his unusually kind attention; and as he fed them all the big tears rolled down his cheeks, as he thought that perhaps never again would he see any of them.