Sample Sentences for
fledgling
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(editor-reviewed)

fledgling as in:  fledgling member

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The fledgling company struggled to attract investors in its first year.
fledgling = new and inexperienced
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    The incident tested and cemented our fledgling friendship.
    fledgling = new (with little experience)
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    They sought to overthrow the fledgling Afghan government and oust the American-led coalition forces, whom they considered invaders and infidels.  (source)
    fledgling = new
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    As far as I can see, there are low buildings separated by trimmed grass and fledgling trees.  (source)
    fledgling = young
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    Graham had strong-armed most people into handing over any packs they'd salvaged and had supposedly put an Arcadian named Asher in charge of distributing them, but there was already a fledgling black market; people were trading nutrition packs for blankets and taking on extra water shifts in exchange for reserved spots inside the crowded tents.  (source)
    fledgling = new
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    Iron Emmett's fledglings cheered their lord commander at the start, but the relentless speed of Rattleshirt's attack soon beat them down to silence.  (source)
    fledglings = people who are young and inexperienced
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    He halted my fledgling study of alchemy, limiting me to chemistry instead.  (source)
    fledgling = new (having recently begun)
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    Henrietta's cells helped launch the fledgling field of virology, but that was just the beginning.  (source)
    fledgling = new (with little experience)
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    It was just another happy day in the life of a fledgling student going through Indoc.  (source)
    fledgling = inexperienced
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    It was a gift to America from a wealthy British scientist who, like our forefathers, believed our fledgling country could become the land of enlightenment.  (source)
    fledgling = new (with little experience)
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    The director had arranged to let her use the school's practice rooms, and she was beginning to tinker with some fledgling compositions.  (source)
    fledgling = new (from someone with little experience)
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    Watching him move across the screen, so quick and sure, it hardly seemed like they could be related, my fledgling efforts and his complete skill and mastery.  (source)
    fledgling = inexperienced
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    But Laura is a fledgling.  (source)
    fledgling = one without experience
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    You will learn, over time, little fledgling.  (source)
    fledgling = person that is inexperienced
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fledgling as in:  fledgling bird

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The fledgling hopped awkwardly along the ground, still learning how to fly.
fledgling = young bird with new flight feathers
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    The patrolman glanced up and saw, framed against the starlit sky, two winged silhouettes—the baby owl's parents, anxiously circling their frightened fledgling.  (source)
    fledgling = young bird that recently developed its flight feathers
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    Shyly and softly, she would have listed the precise species of grasses woven into each nest, or the age in days of a female fledgling based on the emerging colors of her wingtips.  (source)
    fledgling = a young bird that recently developed its flight feathers
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    This time, if I have any eye-sight, they have pecked down trouble for themselves, for Baloo is no fledgling and Bagheera can, as I know, kill more than goats.  (source)
    fledgling = one without experience
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    Anyway, I found him toying with a fledgling robin that had fallen out of its nest in a nearby tree.  (source)
    fledgling = a young bird that recently developed its flight feathers
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    Finally, the raucous fledglings quieted.  (source)
    fledglings = baby birds that recently grew feathers for flight
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    She was there as an aspiring writer and had the fledgling manuscript to prove it.  (source)
    fledgling = new (written with little experience)
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    The sound of the ruffled paper was like the panic of fledglings before they learn how to glide.†  (source)
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    It was his first misstep, but how to make him see it without wounding his fledgling confidence?†  (source)
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    I had been right in giving a girl's name to Lurai, for she laid speckled eggs and, with some help from her mate, hatched two ugly fledglings which soon became beautiful.†  (source)
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    Outside, we buried the mouse and the fledgling in a border in the garden.†  (source)
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    Then, overcome with pity and constrained by his faith to love the life in all creatures great and small, Kevin stayed immobile for hours and days and nights and weeks, holding out his hand until the eggs hatched and the fledglings grew wings, true to life if subversive of common sense, at the intersection of natural process and the glimpsed ideal, at one and the same time a signpost and a reminder.†  (source)
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    On the day a committee of men decided to murder the fledgling Congo, what do you suppose Mama Mwanza was doing?†  (source)
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    He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident effort on teaching their fledglings to fly-yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think.†  (source)
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