Sample sentences for FLEDGLING

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Definition

inexperienced; or a person or organization that is inexperienced

This sense of fledgling comes from the now less commonly used sense of the word which references a bird that recently fledged (developed its flight feathers).

She is a fledgling blogger.

fledgling = inexperienced (just starting out)

The incident tested and cemented our fledgling friendship.
a fledgling enterprise
a fledgling skier
a fledgling robin
Over such feeble fledglings the directress spread a wing of kindliest protection: it was to their bedside she came at night to tuck them warmly in...
Charlotte Bronte -- The Professor
I've knowed him ever since he was a fledgling.
Frances Hodgson Burnett -- The Secret Garden
Finally, the raucous fledglings quieted.
James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment

fledglings = baby birds that recently grew feathers for flight

After a little practice, you can tell what year a fledgling is without checking the crest on her jacket.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed

fledgling = a person that is inexperienced; or a bird that just recently developed the feathers that it uses to fly

The director had arranged to let her use the school's practice rooms, and she was beginning to tinker with some fledgling compositions.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song
But Laura is a fledgling.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
We made plans to raise pigs and chickens in an ambitious extension of our fledgling cooperative.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
I have no more coordination than a fledgling.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
It was with these strangers that he practiced his fledgling English, away from Eulalio's gleeful criticisms.
Junot Diaz -- Drown
We talked about the fledglings in the nest above us.
David Almond -- Skellig
It was his first misstep, but how to make him see it without wounding his fledgling confidence?
George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
On the day a committee of men decided to murder the fledgling Congo, what do you suppose Mama Mwanza was doing?
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
Her temple was deeply sunken as if a hammer had struck it and frail as a fledgling's belly.
James Agee -- A Death in the Family
Almost half the fledgling Farm got infectious hepatitis.
Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America
Marley's fledgling acting career was over.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me

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