chick

Example Sentences

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Even with trials, like a harrowing storm that claimed the life of a chick last year, it did the trick.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2026

The only pair of breeding ospreys in southern England have hatched their first chick of 2026.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

Managing people and predators around nesting beaches, with the modest goal of helping pairs of oystercatchers fledge half a chick more each year, brought a 45% population surge by 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

In the rice paddies of Buri Ram, Thailand, a sarus crane gently cleans its one-week-old chick before lingering in a quiet beak-to-beak moment.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Somewhere in the night he’d flipped the bookcase over and floated the rest of the way lying inside, dozing safe as a chick in its nest.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney