ugly duckling
Example Sentences
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In fact, Callas made herself out of what she considered to be an ugly duckling.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2024
"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
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
It was like the makeover scenes in my American movies, where they take the dorky guy or girl, fix the hair and change the clothes, and the ugly duckling becomes the swan.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
