A domestic hen ready to brood.
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Examples for "sitter"
Examples for "sitter"
1He adores his children & grandchildren and is a very good baby-sitter.
2On the wall to the sitter's left is a small plastic sign:
3I don't know how long you told the sitter to keep Ashley.
4They finished a minute ahead of pole-sitter Oliver Jarvis in a Mazda.
5Roisin paid the fare and rushed inside to let the baby-sitter away.
1The demeanour of broody concern in the official photograph makes sense now.
2Another mid-tempo broody type of track it has many rhythmic changes.
3The only thing dumber than a broody hen was a New York Democrat.
4Finn's always been that mysterious broody type, but I don't know.
5Let's get a stuffed broody hen to SIT on the magazine.
1Why, it's finer than our parson's brood hen.
2There appeared to be little likelihood that Mr. Eisenhower's plane might clip the tree, the secret service is as overprotective as a brood hen.
3Was it impossible to gather such under the wings of any night- brooding hen?
4Some bowls with their lids in the form of brooding hens were Staffordshire & meant to hold candies.
5Two lawyers, each clever in his own way, were watching every move with the faithfulness of brooding hens.
1The only thing dumber than a broody hen was a New York Democrat.
2Let's get a stuffed broody hen to SIT on the magazine.
3The eggs are picked up promptly and hatched under a broody hen, preferably a Muscovy duck.
4A broody hen squealed at him.
5The old thing is sittin' there like a broody hen spittin' at 'em, and the swine are running like hell.
1On some straw in the shade of the eaves was a setting hen.
2The setting hen is filled with hatred for every living thing.
3Logic, rhetoric and metaphor are all alike to the setting hen.
4I couldn't deceive a setting hen or a Berlin wool antimacassar.
5Then he saw her drag the setting hen from her nest and wring its neck.
6And Mr Mertzheimer looked madder than a setting hen when you take her off the nest.
7When she has made up her mind she is as difficult to persuade as a setting hen.
8I should want to be going up or down; I wouldn't be a setting hen all my life.
9She marked the eggs with a piece of charcoal to see if other hens laid by the setting hen.
10I could calculate the actions of a setting hen with her head cut off better than I can this widow's.
11You are a regular old hen, Georgie K. You cluck at a fellow like a setting hen at one chicken.
12Janet sat on the landing window seat and cuddled Felicia in her thin arms, crooning over her like a setting hen.
13I would if I were there, and so would you if you had as much gumption as an old setting hen.
14I am a real passenger now, and down there I felt like our setting hen when we shut her up in a coop.
15Mumps comes next, I said, as I sat down by the head of the bed, nearer than I liked to the setting hen.
16But if the old setting hen was off the nest, I knew which eggs to get and which ones to leave in the nest.
Translations for setting hen