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
We appeal to everybody out there to do anything that they can to release Gena and all of the others and that little child.
From BBC • Aug. 6, 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
“Can you imagine what that poor little child is going through every single day, terrified for her life?” he said.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2023
I let her hold and soothe me like a little child, until I fell asleep.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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