chick

Example Sentences

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From his second-floor deck, he observed the chicks in the nest beginning to flap their wings, growing bigger and stronger.

From Washington Post

A female quail can produce up to 20 chicks a year, but they often live less than a year because many of them are killed due to predators, bad weather, accidents and hunters.

From Washington Post

“The witch, Sylvester, that viking chick who sings the opera. When I was little and forming my Perception Box, I sucked them in somehow.”

From New York Times

Yet, like Goldilocks, they have a narrow comfort zone: If there's too much sea ice, trips to bring food from the ocean become long and arduous, and their chicks may starve.

From Salon

More than 10,000 chicks are thought to have drowned when the sea ice broke up before they were ready to swim.

From Seattle Times