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Examples of chicken feed in a Sentence
The project cost almost a million dollars, which isn't exactly chicken feed.
Ten bucks? That's chicken feed!
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Compared with the huge fine Trump is facing now, twenty-five million was chicken feed.
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John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
To subscribe to the Free Press for chicken feed, click here.
—Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2024
Even within the Apple juggernaut, $30 billion isn’t chicken feed!
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2024
The egg business is volatile, with avian flu affecting flocks some years and with the price of corn (chicken feed) fluctuating.
—John Dorfman, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
Charlotte Backus waited months for the chance to send her kitchen trash through the mail, so that a company in another state could turn it into chicken feed.
—Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2023
The processor explained that their business gives leftover legs and offal to multiple people, who use the parts for everything from fertilizer to chicken feed.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 21 Dec. 2023
Mill is also on the hunt for partners to buy its chicken feed.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 7 Feb. 2023
That’s chicken feed compared with the more than 300 million tons of meat consumed around the world — a number that is only expected to grow.
—Linda Qiu, New York Times, 21 June 2023
John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
To subscribe to the Free Press for chicken feed, click here.
—Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2024
Even within the Apple juggernaut, $30 billion isn’t chicken feed!
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2024
The egg business is volatile, with avian flu affecting flocks some years and with the price of corn (chicken feed) fluctuating.
—John Dorfman, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
Charlotte Backus waited months for the chance to send her kitchen trash through the mail, so that a company in another state could turn it into chicken feed.
—Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2023
The processor explained that their business gives leftover legs and offal to multiple people, who use the parts for everything from fertilizer to chicken feed.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 21 Dec. 2023
Mill is also on the hunt for partners to buy its chicken feed.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 7 Feb. 2023
That’s chicken feed compared with the more than 300 million tons of meat consumed around the world — a number that is only expected to grow.
—Linda Qiu, New York Times, 21 June 2023
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“Chicken feed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chicken%20feed. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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