little child

Example Sentences

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Confronted with his realistic, blinking, speaking face, she felt “scared … like a little child again.”

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

We appeal to everybody out there to do anything that they can to release Gena and all of the others and that little child.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2025

“Then you switch perspective and be this little child … and you see a big adult who tells you all of these things.”

From Salon • May 26, 2025

“No little child should get tattooed,” she said.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2022

I watch, wishing I could join them, but I’m not a little child anymore.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar