How to Use rooster in a Sentence

rooster

noun

• We heard the crow of a rooster.
• The crow of a rooster and the ringing of a church bell at dawn.
  — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2021
• During the day, the cave is filled with the sound of cows and roosters.
  — Photographs and Text By Bryan Denton, New York Times, 13 May 2018
• The rooster had made it from the main coop to the secondary coop.
  — Martha McPhee, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• Even a rooster that looks stone-cold dead in the air can hit the ground running.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 4 Dec. 2020
• The rooster was still in range when his gun spit out the last smoking hull.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 25 May 2020
• And of course, there was the food: bánh chưng, bánh tét and the aforementioned rooster.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
• There was the rooster who would chase him home every day from the bus stop.
  — courant.com, 6 Oct. 2019
• Stop to play dominoes at the park and look over the rooster sculptures.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 25 July 2024
• One rooster to eight or nine hens is about the right ratio.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2022
• The young rooster didn’t know how to socialize with the hens.
  — Joan Donaldson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2020
• The rooster is about 8 feet tall and about 4 feet wide, Shabani said.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2021
• If the neighbor’s rooster wakes you at the crack of dawn, try Nightingale.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2018
• The Canterbury Tales, in which Chaucer wrote about a rooster who was tricked by a fox on the 32nd of March.
  — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2021
• Then, one weekend, our young Labrador flushed a rooster a dozen feet in front of me.
  — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2020
• Let the dog backtrack and work behind, too, as roosters like to slink out the back door.
  — Outdoor Life, 18 Oct. 2023
• Parmesan, the youngest chicken, had ventured right up to the kitchen door with Yard Boy, the rooster.
  — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2024
• Even the rooster slept in on the rainy morning of my visit to Woodland Ridge Farm.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 12 May 2022
• The group of birds is thought to include at least 38 roosters along with dozens of hens and chicks, Johnson said.
  — Ian Cummings, kansascity, 18 Apr. 2018
• There’s the sound of birds tweeting, a rooster crowing.
  — Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 27 Sep. 2024
• Moana's rooster Heihei and pig Pua are both back in the trailer.
  — Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
• Billy and Buster — Buster being the rooster — were on time.
  — Scott Harrison, latimes.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• Among the white, ashy rubble sat an iron rooster and a stone Buddha.
  — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• The 66-pound copper rooster was found crumpled on a side roof; a new one will replace it at the top of the spire.
  — National Geographic, 18 Jan. 2022
• There is a full-service bar and eatery and even a large whiteboard to track the winning roosters.
  — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 12 June 2018
• These kids wake up at dawn with the roosters, and never stop running.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 10 July 2017
• Nothing mimics the flush of a rooster more than shooting a round of trap.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 10 June 2020
• On my first walk through the village of Kontopouli, the roosters are crowing.
  — Helene Stapinski, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• The winning rooster's owner takes home a $5 prize and a bag of chicken feed.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 24 Aug. 2022
• The meet went incredibly well with both roosters getting along swimmingly with the rest of the birds.
  — Karri Peifer, Axios, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024