How to Use hatchling in a Sentence

hatchling

noun
  • The hatchling emerge two months later and make their way to the ocean.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2022
  • On land, birds, crabs, and small mammals prey on eggs and hatchlings.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
  • And there are also blue herons and egrets that might prey on the small hatchlings.
    — Frank Abderholden, Lake County News-Sun, 30 May 2018
  • Fish and crabs can be waiting for the hatchlings to enter the waves.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • Their hatchlings erupted out of the sand by the hundreds at night.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The tracks are indicative of hatchlings drawn to lights on the shore.
    — Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 8 June 2026
  • Hungry shrimp and anemones waited to pounce on the fresh hatchlings.
    — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The eight hatchlings were born over the period of a week, the zoo said.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Large holes are often a death sentence for tiny hatchlings on their way to the ocean.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 25 July 2023
  • But too much water running through the rivers could kills eggs and young hatchlings.
    — CBS News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Tiny, slow and clumsy — these hatchlings are an easy snack for predators.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The girl boards the ship with four eggs, three sons, two hatchlings (and a partridge in a pear tree).
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 30 June 2024
  • The sky is a sheet of blue, a breeze wraps us with clean air, a sandpiper mom shrieks over her hatchlings.
    — Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 July 2017
  • Females die loaded with eggs, and the hatchlings chew their way out in search of fresh roseau.
    — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Watch sea turtle hatchlings emerge from the sand and crawl their way to the water for the first time.
    — National Geographic, 17 Jan. 2017
  • But loon hatchlings have a higher survival rate at the refuge than young ducks, geese and swans do.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Light from the moon and stars in the night sky reflects on the ocean and guides the hatchlings to the water.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Experts said the hatchlings will be released back into the wild.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The hatchling turtles then are on their own to find a lake or wetland and fend for themselves.
    — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
  • Tourists applaud as about a dozen more palm-sized hatchlings stumble into the sea.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025
  • The fish and bullfrogs then eat our native hatchling turtles.
    — Rachel Schnalzer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022
  • One was a hatchling about a foot long sitting on a porch in Miami.
    — Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 23 May 2016
  • That means these tiny hatchlings will grow to roughly the height of a young child in a remarkably short time.
    — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Their 9-year-old daughter provides the voice of a hatchling named Vivi.
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 12 Aug. 2019
  • And while a round of lab mice can be bred in a matter of weeks, new python hatchlings arrive only once per year.
    — Daniel Engber, New York Times, 17 May 2017
  • The zoo said the hatchlings may be available for visitors to see in the coming weeks.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The eggs are about the size of a chicken's, and the skeleton of a hatchling fits in the palm of a human hand.
    — Reuters, CNN, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Braun told these hatchlings that they were too wedded to script, and needed to learn how to let sound tell the story.
    — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • The hatchlings are about one month old and only six inches long, the aquarium said.
    — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • And pretty quickly, the tourists start cheering on the hatchlings to get into the sea.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025

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