How to Use henhouse in a Sentence

henhouse

noun
  • That is called the fox guarding the henhouse.
    — Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • That is called the fox guarding the henhouse.
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • This isn’t the fox guarding the henhouse.
    — Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • The fox is guarding the henhouse!
    — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The fox is still guarding the henhouse, but at least now the hens can sue.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The foxes are already in the henhouse.
    — Dana O'Neil, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But beyond that, the film shows the dangers of letting the fox guard the henhouse.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Keeping the mayor in charge of how this city is run is sort of like letting the fox run the henhouse.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Around 80 fat Sasso chickens squawk and scratch in his stone henhouse.
    — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
  • This is the fox getting to design and build the henhouse from scratch for maximum access.
    — Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • Some have compared the idea of doctors setting their own payscale to the proverbial fox guarding the henhouse.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2024
  • To locals like the Gibsons and others in their camp, the process feels like a fox guarding a henhouse.
    — Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2021
  • Will oil and gas foxes be watching Utah’s air quality henhouse?
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2021
  • For a coach who loves drawing up plays for big arms, moving to Texas is like an omelet chef moving into a henhouse.
    — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Letting politicians manipulate voting maps is like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.
    — oregonlive, 13 May 2020
  • Nothing’s enough for him— a share of eggs and vodka, a seat in the henhouse, monthly visits from virgins and schoolboys.
    — Mira Rosenthal, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Putting Puzder in charge of the Labor Department is like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.
    — Mercury News Readers, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2017
  • Opponents argue that Prop 22 is like letting a fox guard the henhouse.
    — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Kids create their own chicken henhouse and care for their chicken figurines and eggs using 101 pieces.
    — Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Wander past the farm’s henhouse and apple orchards, and stop to buy some mulberry Afro Jam.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 19 June 2019
  • Therefore, the new character is the Big Bad Wolf and Steve's in the henhouse.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 June 2023
  • In Walbrook, a homeowner who’d set out for the henhouse discovered that one of her chickens had laid an egg on the doorstep, as if to save her a trip to the coop.
    — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • And there's always the frightening prospect that wild birds could carry the virus into the henhouses needed in vaccine production.
    — Arthur Allen, CBS News, 29 May 2024
  • That’s apparently what happened over at Henry’s glass henhouse in Dearborn.
    — Car and Driver, 9 Sep. 2022
  • But Frankfurter’s dissent invited the legislative fox to guard its own districting henhouse.
    — John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The killer snake finagled its way into a chicken coop in Kerala, India, killed a chicken and then tried to eat eight of the eggs laying around the henhouse.
    — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • As a result, putting Peter in charge of the Indigo investigation is like the fox guarding the henhouse.
    — Ron Gilmer, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2018
  • More often than not, state legislatures are tasked with drawing district maps, allowing the electoral foxes to draw and defend their henhouse districts.
    — Brian Klaas, The Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2017
  • Looking for respectability and approval from white people will always be as fruitless a task as a chicken’s attempt to convince a fox to respect the boundaries of the henhouse.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The governor ordered state officials to search every warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse.
    — Matt K. Lewis, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025

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