little child
Example Sentences
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Confronted with his realistic, blinking, speaking face, she felt “scared … like a little child again.”
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025
A five-year-old boy who drowned during a family holiday in Greece was an "excitable, happy, loving little child" with "no sense of danger", an inquest has heard.
From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025
“Then you switch perspective and be this little child … and you see a big adult who tells you all of these things.”
From Salon • May 26, 2025
“It is like a little child holds a dying bird in his hand, and all he does is laugh. This is how we are treating Mother Earth.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2022
She wants a Birth Day, here, with guests and food and presents, she wants a little child to spoil in the kitchen, to iron clothes for, to slip cookies into when no one’s watching.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
