How to Use hatchling in a Sentence

hatchling

noun

• The chick was the first hatchling spotted in the area along the state’s northern coast since the 1960s.
  — Gillian Flaccus, The Seattle Times, 24 May 2017
• The hatchling emerge two months later and make their way to the ocean.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2022
• The eggs are about the size of a chicken's, and the skeleton of a hatchling fits in the palm of a human hand.
  — Reuters, CNN, 22 Oct. 2021
• Fish and crabs can be waiting for the hatchlings to enter the waves.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
• And there are also blue herons and egrets that might prey on the small hatchlings.
  — Frank Abderholden, Lake County News-Sun, 30 May 2018
• Watch sea turtle hatchlings emerge from the sand and crawl their way to the water for the first time.
  — National Geographic, 17 Jan. 2017
• Their hatchlings erupted out of the sand by the hundreds at night.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• The sky is a sheet of blue, a breeze wraps us with clean air, a sandpiper mom shrieks over her hatchlings.
  — Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 July 2017
• On land, birds, crabs, and small mammals prey on eggs and hatchlings.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• Hungry shrimp and anemones waited to pounce on the fresh hatchlings.
  — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
• Large holes are often a death sentence for tiny hatchlings on their way to the ocean.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 25 July 2023
• Their 9-year-old daughter provides the voice of a hatchling named Vivi.
  — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 12 Aug. 2019
• Females die loaded with eggs, and the hatchlings chew their way out in search of fresh roseau.
  — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• That means a lot more hatchlings could make their debut in the world through the end of October.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 22 July 2024
• When the hatchlings are around 9 months old, they will be sent to a bigger farm near Darwin.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• The time the hatchlings spend under the care of the team helps get them through their most vulnerable stage of life.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
• There’s a very small chance — one in a thousand — of a hatchling making it to adulthood.
  — Susan Maas / Special To The Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 2 Feb. 2017
• But too much water running through the rivers could kills eggs and young hatchlings.
  — CBS News, 7 Apr. 2023
• The hatchling slithered in Ms. Siewe’s hands, around her fingers and wrist, up her arm, down her leg.
  — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• The flow rate per gram in the femur of a two-kilogram hatchling Maiasaura was 15 times higher than that of the adults.
  — Roger S. Seymour, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• The hatchling turtles then are on their own to find a lake or wetland and fend for themselves.
  — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
• The hatchling is currently about the size of a pink school eraser, weighing in at 0.6 ounces.
  — Brittany Truong, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• But at Turkey Point, a team of scientists is ready and waiting to give the hatchlings a boost.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 23 July 2019
• One was a hatchling about a foot long sitting on a porch in Miami.
  — Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 23 May 2016
• The center’s experts rode to the scene at South Beach Park and took the hatchlings, which had been collected in a bucket.
  — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 3 July 2019
• However, even in the water, hatchlings have to be quick.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
• Kids can join public walks between June and August to help keep the beach clear for the hatchlings to scurry to the water.
  — Michael S. Nolan, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• The hatchlings were found at the bottom of a nest, unable to escape in 2011, and scooped out by turtle rescuers.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 23 June 2017
• That’s not unusual, as one in five loon hatchlings at Seney do not survive to autumn, per McCormick.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
• All hatchlings will remain at the zoo for about a year and a half before being evaluated for release into the wild.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024