ugly duckling
Example Sentences
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"It is an incredibly difficult thing to go from turning that person from an ugly duckling into a swan."
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024
The bewitchingly fragrant fruit — a relative of apples and pears — does go through an ugly duckling phase, Walden acknowledges.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2023
Despite being regarded as an ugly duckling by the foreign policy establishment, USIA-led public diplomacy efforts played a key role in achieving several important foreign policy objectives.
From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023
Schumer takes the genre in her own direction, though, by welding together its usual narrative — the melancholy story of self-discovery — and her preferred mode in films, the bawdy, ugly duckling romantic comedy.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022
My parents look at me like they don’t quite know me, but in a good way, like they’re surprised to find that their ugly duckling was a swan all along.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
