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
“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
"That, to me, is love at its utmost - knowing you can't look after someone as much as you'd like to so you dare to give up your little child."
From BBC • Nov. 14, 2023
Still, there it was, inescapably, a line from Isaiah: “and a little child shall lead them.”
From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2022
And then she sat there, never having felt this brittle before, waiting to calm down, waiting for the nightmare to end, slowly and desperately and like a little child shaking her head.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
