youngling

Example Sentences

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Grogu is a youngling who is strong in the Force.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2023

The summer dies, but you will always stay A youngling in some future reader’s thought.

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2022

Outside, a family of osprey are encouraging a youngling in what appears to be its first flight.

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2022

Jedi candidates were generally identified as children and progressed from youngling to padawan to knight to master.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2015

From the first moment that she set eyes upon him, shambling awkwardly into the yard at her husband’s heels, Jabe Smith’s wife was inhospitable toward the ungainly youngling of the wild.

From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston