How to Use offspring in a Sentence

offspring

noun
  • The colt is the offspring of two racing champions.
  • The show is about two couples and the adventures of their rebellious offspring.
  • Two sets of twins were among the offspring.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Her offspring hatch the next year.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Her offspring hatch the next year.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Think about our offspring, our kids.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The offspring would like to extend that time.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Females and offspring would no longer even feed at the same fig tree.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Ants need to defend their colony, seek food and take care of offspring.
    — Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a courtship, then a mating, and then the pair raise their offspring.
    — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • And the female wants to pass those genes along to her offspring, please and thank you.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The path to larger sizes may have been led by those larger offspring.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2020
  • These offspring can be snipped off and planted to create new plants.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2025
  • These offspring can be snipped off and planted to create new plants.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2025
  • These offspring can be snipped off and planted to create new plants.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The three cubs are Zoya's first offspring, a news release said.
    — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2022
  • One of its offspring may be back this year, as big or bigger than the legend.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Some ant species kidnap the colony’s offspring and enslave them.
    — CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The first offspring survived; the second, born this spring, did not.
    — Susanne Rust, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023
  • Those two were offspring of a mother killed by a car on an Ozarks gravel road.
    — Charles Hammer, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The offspring boasts blooms in springtime and then an encore in late summer and fall.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The zoo said that Zahara’s offspring is the seventh calf to be born there.
    — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
  • God forbid a woman isn’t balled and chained to her partner and offspring.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The fossils are believed to be from the mothers and offspring that died there over the years.
    — Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The fossils are believed to be from the mothers and offspring that died there over the years.
    — Maddie Burakoff, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Their goal is to remove the females and their future offspring.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The more races a horse wins, the greater its value when breeding and the value of its offspring.
    — Ray Walia, Cpa, Cma, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The aim is for the sterile males to mate with females in the wild who then produce no offspring.
    — Fernando Llano, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Curled at the forelegs is a smaller camel’s carcass, likely its offspring.
    — Anel Rakhimzhanova, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Growing offspring will nurse when hungry, play like puppies and nap in the shade of the old oak trees.
    — Susan Koch, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026

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