chick

Example Sentences

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At the Houses of Parliament, he holds a peregrine falcon chick while it is ringed for identification.

From BBC

From his second-floor deck, he observed the chicks in the nest beginning to flap their wings, growing bigger and stronger.

From Washington Post

A female quail can produce up to 20 chicks a year, but they often live less than a year because many of them are killed due to predators, bad weather, accidents and hunters.

From Washington Post

“The witch, Sylvester, that viking chick who sings the opera. When I was little and forming my Perception Box, I sucked them in somehow.”

From New York Times

Yet, like Goldilocks, they have a narrow comfort zone: If there's too much sea ice, trips to bring food from the ocean become long and arduous, and their chicks may starve.

From Salon