How to Use coop in a Sentence
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The rooster had made it from the main coop to the secondary coop.
— Martha McPhee, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023 -
Both of the Bullets’ stellar guards had flown the coop.
— Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 3 Feb. 2022 -
He’s built a coop on the north end of his plot to house 3,000 chickens and chicks.
— oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2023 -
Like the house, the coop features black and white paint and a double gable roof.
— Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023 -
My birds have a coop that has chain link on the front and one side (leeward side).
— oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2021 -
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 -
Filling out the chicken coop are British stars young and old.
— Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 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 -
When your leaders fly the coop, who remains to transmit the culture to the next group?
— Don Yaeger, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021 -
Here's what went down, including who lives, who dies and whether or not the Byrdes flew the coop out of the Ozarks once and for all.
— Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 2 May 2022 -
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 -
Read more about the home and see what a luxury chicken coop looks like.
— Dallas News, 1 Jan. 2022 -
But it’s become a classic case of the fox guarding the chicken coop.
— Time, 25 Oct. 2022 -
The kids sweep floors, collect eggs from the chicken coop, chit chat with the animals.
— Jesse Remedios, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022 -
The property features raised crop beds, a green house, a pen for the livestock and a coop for the chickens.
— Alex Mann, baltimoresun.com, 11 Sep. 2021 -
The hens in the red-and-white coop include floofy-haired Einsteina and Alberta along with queen of the roost, Chick-filet-na.
— Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 9 June 2023 -
Keyeva had made it out of the fire, but the Martins’ five chickens died in their coop, and their cat was nowhere to be found.
— Hanna Merzbach, The Atlantic, 6 June 2021 -
Tomlin is a great coach who can scrape the coop and make chicken salad.
— Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Dec. 2023 -
And the chicken coop, and the barn, and the other outbuildings, which all are trimmed with garland and stocked with trees big and small.
— Joanna Linberg, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Oct. 2021 -
In one photo, the siblings held chickens from the chicken coop.
— Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2022 -
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 -
Wierwille feared the dog had died, until Casper emerged from the chicken coop the morning of Nov. 6.
— Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022 -
The five-acre lot features farmland, a barn, a chicken coop and a small greenhouse.
— Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2023 -
Within a few hours, the Ahr was rushing through the chicken coop and rising up the patio steps.
— Washington Post, 23 July 2021 -
There is the chicken coop painted pink and green to match the Beverly Hills Hotel.
— Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022 -
The coop apartment units face a central courtyard and parking lot.
— Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023 -
The former Spice Girl, 49, posted a photo of the young rooster standing in a beam of sunlight at the door of their coop.
— Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 31 Dec. 2023 -
There is also a former chicken coop that now hosts a cedar sauna.
— Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2023 -
Even their chickens were OK, although their coop flew away.
— Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2022 -
This year, Victoria surprised David, 48, with a very special gift — a coop full of chickens.
— Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 31 Dec. 2023
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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 -
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 -
Your feet have been cooped up all winter and need some TLC.
— Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2017 -
In many cases, people feel cooped up with nowhere to go.
— Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 28 Apr. 2020 -
Think about it: Most of them spent the last four years cooped up in a dorm room with little to no kitchen access.
— Audrey Bruno, SELF, 31 May 2017 -
Your feet have been cooped up all winter and need some TLC. Pedicures all around.
— Southern Living, 1 May 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 -
While cooped up in a cramped spaceship for months or years, how well would an all-female crew get along?
— National Geographic, 17 June 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 -
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 -
Families cooped up in their homes want something to do.
— NBC News, 5 Apr. 2020 -
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 -
Play it coop with up to 4 friends, or go alone in an adventure of hack’n’slash rampage, with a pinch of rogue-lite, and some permadeath.
— Jacob Siegal, BGR, 31 May 2022 -
For six days after that, he was cooped up in a 26-foot RV in a special quarantine camp run by the state of Georgia.
— Author: Jenny Jarvie, Anchorage Daily News, 30 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 -
Many patients in the cardiac intensive care unit are conscious and have been cooped up for weeks.
— Liz Kowalczyk, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018 -
Not dressed for red carpets or cooped up in hotels, but getting to roam around outdoors.
— Steven Klein, Vogue, 8 Feb. 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 -
Cooped up: A caller reported that a hawk was caught in wiring inside a chicken coop.
— Washington Post, 17 May 2017 -
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 -
Those smart and considerate enough to stay at home these days are feeling a little cooped up.
— Kent Somers, azcentral, 5 Apr. 2020 -
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 -
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 -
After that, the odds get pretty long, unless Trump is cooped up at Mar-a-Lago soon without access to golf.
— Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 30 May 2018 -
So how has being cooped up at home changed your understanding of this music?
— David Allen, New York Times, 20 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 -
With parents and children cooped up in self-isolation in the New York City area, many are dreaming of summer camp to take a break from each other.
— Leslie Brody, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2020 -
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 -
By then, players were exhausted after a week cooped up in hotel rooms.
— Joan Niesen, SI.com, 10 Sep. 2019
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