How to Use yearling in a Sentence

yearling

noun

• The lambs born this year will be sold in 2019 as yearlings, Bush said.
  — Andy Porter, The Seattle Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• The yearling was seen crying alone in a tree for over 10 hours.
  — Christy Namee Eriksen, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Oct. 2022
• The short races, for yearlings, are eye-popping enough: 7½ miles.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2019
• Some were looking for bull and heifer yearlings to breed or raise for meat.
  — Danika Worthington, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2017
• The Lassen Pack is believed to have five adults and a yearling, according to wildlife cams.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• Nearby, three deer — a momma and two yearlings — strolled down to the water’s edge and took a drink.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 21 Sep. 2019
• Both species have stable buck-to-doe and yearling buck-to-adult buck ratios.
  — Brian Lovett, Outdoor Life, 12 July 2019
• The horse was bought for $5,500 as a yearling at the Barretts sale in California.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2020
• Kuester said Penny is a good-natured yearling and good sport.
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
• The yearling is, of course, the BMW Z3 2.8, looking all muscled up now that its rear fenders have been stretched over a wider rear track.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2023
• In that encounter, a 65-pound yearling lion grabbed a 6-year-old boy from his parents and dragged the boy into the brush.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• The yearling colt wore out her pasture, sprinting from point to point as if he were being chased.
  — New York Times, 6 May 2022
• The hindquarters of a typical yearling bull moose will weigh around 100 pounds.
  — Steve Meyer, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Aug. 2017
• The former $1,000 yearling has run five times this year and has not finished worse than second.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 8 May 2021
• Early in 2020, a severe storm loomed over the Cypress Creek Equine farm and the fierce winds caused a tree branch to break off — right into the left eye of a yearling.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 27 Apr. 2022
• Jane bought Lil Indy, a $2,200 horse as a yearling, for more than a million dollars to be a broodmare.
  — Wally Hall, Arkansas Online, 16 Nov. 2022
• The bear had two yearlings with it — one was captured and released in the Ocala National Forest.
  — Gal Tziperman Lotan, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 May 2018
• The yearling was the 83rd Florida bear to die in a collision with a vehicle so far this year and the fifth on I-4 since the new year began.
  — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 26 June 2019
• Roughly a half dozen shutter bugs approached the moose, some creeping within 40 feet of the adults, even placing themselves at times right in the midst of the bull, the cow and the yearlings.
  — Charlie Brennan, The Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2019
• Among the lost so far this season: a 31-foot-long yearling gray whale that was hit by a ship and washed ashore on Thursday, dying hours later.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2018
• The pack roams along the Idaho state line and has eight members, including a breeding male and female and five yearlings.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2018
• Spielberg, a $1-million purchase as a yearling, got off to a slower-than-hoped-for start in his career.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2020
• Among the three yearlings relocated last year, one was shot and killed by a hunter in Quebec about three weeks later.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2018
• One of Louisiana's five has been seen flying, and, along with a yearling is counted in the 70-member flock.
  — Janet McConnaughey, Chron, 14 July 2021
• While all of this makes what might have been something of a feel-good story — inexpensive yearling aims for Triple Crown!
  — Frank Vespe, baltimoresun.com, 14 May 2021
• He was purchased for $1.2 million as yearling, so expectations have been high from the start.
  — Jason Frakes, USA TODAY, 5 May 2017
• The governor got the ball rolling with the largest cash donation on the list, which would include gifts in kind, such as yearling bulls, cartloads of stones and quantities of corn.
  — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Mar. 2022
• Be sure to give cow elks, which can be aggressive while protecting their yearling calves, plenty of room.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• Two of the six adult Lassen pack members, a yearling male and the breeding female, were fitted with radio collars this summer and are now being tracked.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• The winter tick poses a serious health issue that can kill moose during the winter months, especially calves and yearlings.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024