duckling

Definitions

Examples

• They’re like little ducklings that are together all the time.

• It should be no surprise when you turn the page, see a duckling looking curiously into your eyes and feel an emotional connection.

• Eliza was the ugly duckling of her high school, voted “Most Butt” of her senior class.

• It's fashionable to lament the status of the novella: unjustly neglected, the ugly duckling of the literary world, etc.

• In his six years in Paris, Lebovitz transforms himself from a clueless American duckling into a knowing Parisian swan.

• And now it had turned out a real little duckling, that black little fellow Mother Wyandotte was scolding so.

• Finally only one duckling remained in the middle of the river, probably at once the strongest and most foolish of the brood.

• Lulu was a duckling who could throw a stone almost as well as could Jimmie, but Alice was not so fond of doing this.

• They were an odd contrast—the mother and son—suggesting the homely but immortal comparison of the hen with the ugly duckling.

• In other words, the elements farmer, kill, and duckling define concepts of a concrete order.