How to Use duckling in a Sentence

duckling

noun
  • One day, my mum added a duckling who couldn’t walk to our menagerie.
    — Longreads, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The ducklings were also found in a storm drain.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Her 8 ducklings fell through a large drainage grate on shoulder of the road.
    — Prescotte Stokes Iii, star-telegram, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Females are all brown and might be herding a flock of ducklings.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2020
  • Watch these brave ducklings jump from bridge to reunite with Mom!
    — Kendall Malinchock, USA Today, 18 June 2025
  • Police do not know why the man attacked the ducklings.
    — Nathaniel Percy, Oc Register, 14 May 2026
  • The rest of the ducklings escaped with the mother duck.
    — Nathaniel Percy, Oc Register, 14 May 2026
  • Last Thursday, eight ducklings were swept into a storm drain.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2019
  • Adding pep on the sidelines will be ducklings, piglets and baby bunnies.
    — Kristi Turnquist, OregonLive.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • No mother duck was around, so the crews removed the grate and used a net to capture each duckling.
    — Pauline Repard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2019
  • This duckling in my yard was not going to be reunited with its mother.
    — Lisa Hughes, CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • If for some reason the duck and her ducklings are in need of rescue, capture the mother first.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 17 June 2019
  • All eight ducklings were placed in a nearby field where they were reunited with their mother.
    — Michelle Lou, CNN, 21 June 2019
  • Video shows the officers reaching in to grab six of the ducklings through the open storm drain cover.
    — Brooke Baitinger, Miami Herald, 26 May 2025
  • All six ducklings were rescued — one by hand, and the other five in the strainer basket.
    — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 May 2024
  • The ducks were crossed Sixth Street to avoid a dog when three of the ducklings fell into a storm drain.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2019
  • Our next stop was the long nursery barn, where thousands of yellow ducklings swarmed under heat lamps.
    — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 9 July 2019
  • Enjoy watching this mother duck prank her ducklings.
    — Cate Martel, The Hill, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Behind the bar, whole ducklings and chickens rotate on the spit roaster.
    — Joyce Smith, kansascity, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Menu items range from fresh Gulf grouper and Cioppino to veal chops and roasted duckling.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025
  • On another section of the wall was a painting of a small yellow duckling.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 4 July 2024
  • See the baby swan attempt to fit in among bright ducklings and a glowing cat before finding its true home.
    — Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The duckling's story had a happy ending.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026
  • Watch a clip of his comments here, and more importantly, watch a clip of the capitol ducklings here.
    — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 26 Sep. 2017
  • And as for her former days as an ugly duckling and the kids in her junior high school who used to make fun of her now stylish asset?
    — David Handelman, Cosmopolitan, 1 Jan. 1950
  • But as is so often the case, take a ho-hum little thing and put it in a garden and the ugly duckling does its changeling thing.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2017
  • By far, the cutest member of the family was the young duckling with its distinctive black and white stripes on its body.
    — Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Nov. 2019
  • Once all the ducklings were gone, folks stood around in shock and horror as Juniper went after the mama.
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 1 May 2024
  • From there, the officers put the cardboard box down in a grassy area, reuniting the ducklings with their mom.
    — Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 26 Apr. 2026
  • More than a half-dozen ducklings were rescued from a storm drain in Westbrook on Thursday.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2025

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