How to Use duckling in a Sentence

duckling

noun

• Unfortunately, hungry snakes sometimes eat young chicks and ducklings and target fish ponds.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Aug. 2024
• In the past, the ducklings fell over on ramps with no sides.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
• The ramps are used by the ducklings to get into the water.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
• One day, my mum added a duckling who couldn’t walk to our menagerie.
  — Longreads, 16 Sep. 2022
• The ducks were crossed Sixth Street to avoid a dog when three of the ducklings fell into a storm drain.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2019
• Her 8 ducklings fell through a large drainage grate on shoulder of the road.
  — Prescotte Stokes Iii, star-telegram, 15 Apr. 2018
• Apparently the show is pitched to the duckling in all of us.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
• Behind the bleachers, a hawk swooped down and picked up a duckling from a group of 10-12 babies.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2023
• No mother duck was around, so the crews removed the grate and used a net to capture each duckling.
  — Pauline Repard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2019
• Females are all brown and might be herding a flock of ducklings.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2020
• But first, here’s a question: What do ducklings and neo-Nazis have in common?
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2019
• The ducklings sleep with Fred in his dog basket, the BBC reported.
  — Natalie Dreier, ajc, 22 May 2018
• Since May 20, the NPS reports 80 ducklings have been found dead in the reflecting pool.
  — Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 10 June 2017
• If for some reason the duck and her ducklings are in need of rescue, capture the mother first.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 17 June 2019
• All six ducklings were rescued — one by hand, and the other five in the strainer basket.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 May 2024
• Security guard Nick Kreft saw the ducklings fall in and the mother fly away.
  — Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 26 May 2017
• Once all the ducklings were gone, folks stood around in shock and horror as Juniper went after the mama.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 1 May 2024
• Adding pep on the sidelines will be ducklings, piglets and baby bunnies.
  — Kristi Turnquist, OregonLive.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• But as is so often the case, take a ho-hum little thing and put it in a garden and the ugly duckling does its changeling thing.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2017
• By far, the cutest member of the family was the young duckling with its distinctive black and white stripes on its body.
  — Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Nov. 2019
• Police said the workers placed the ducklings in a box and turned them over to the care of Falmouth Animal Control.
  — Laney Ruckstuhl, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2018
• Behind the bar, whole ducklings and chickens rotate on the spit roaster.
  — Joyce Smith, kansascity, 26 Jan. 2018
• Ramps for ducklings are back at the reflecting pool at the U.S. Capitol, wildlife experts said.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
• Last Thursday, eight ducklings were swept into a storm drain.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2019
• Watch a clip of his comments here, and more importantly, watch a clip of the capitol ducklings here.
  — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 26 Sep. 2017
• Parker does well as Doris, the hardly ugly but uncertain duckling that takes a seat in the back row in class and stays mum.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
• And as for her former days as an ugly duckling and the kids in her junior high school who used to make fun of her now stylish asset?
  — David Handelman, Cosmopolitan, 1 Jan. 1950
• When my two daughters were little, a friend brought a duckling to our house that he’d been given and didn’t want his own children to have.
  — Ann Hymes, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2021
• On another section of the wall was a painting of a small yellow duckling.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 4 July 2024
• Berkowitz lifted a duckling up from a playpen that was repurposed into a duck nursery.
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024