yearling

Example Sentences

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Those “yearlings” are the fish that biologists have been wading into creeks to capture.

From Los Angeles Times

The yearling would have barely made a sound as she trotted through brush and dry pine needles on an overgrown path that dropped into a steep canyon.

From National Geographic

“The little cubs of the year and sometimes the yearlings,” cubs around 18 months old, “it’s harder for them to recover from collisions like that,” Simons said.

From Los Angeles Times

The bear, estimated to be a cub or yearling, leaped at her, officials said.

From Seattle Times

A yearling's heart is a quickly shifting landscape, its cardiac morphology sensitive to both the rigors of endurance training and long-known diseases of overbreeding.

From Salon