Sample Sentences for
yearling
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    I refused to name the horse, so we called him the Yearling.  (source)
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    "Well done for a yearling!" said the Sea Lion, who could appreciate good swimming.  (source)
    yearling = animal between one and two years of age
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    Glancing up, Peter could see two does-one older, one a yearling.  (source)
    yearling = an animal between one and two years of age
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    Orrin was like a yearling mule: stubborn, overconfident, and all too willing to kick you in the gut if you gave him the opportunity.  (source)
    yearling = an animal between one and two years of age
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    They cut back the runners on the yearlings first and then on the two— and three-year-old plants.†  (source)
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    I was born in 1975, before that wave even started to crest, and I have to say the Luttrell family was riding high, It was nothing for my dad to breed a good-looking horse from a $5,000 stallion and sell the yearling for $40,000.  (source)
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    As yearlings they had passed over the village in the fall, crossing lands they had never seen and with no older bird to guide them, Yet they had known their way to the southern valley where their kind had wintered for untold centuries, as now they knew their way back to the nesting place.†  (source)
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    I would begin with an unbroken yearling, with no old training to be unlearned.†  (source)
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    Each spring, all the ranchers would have what they call a roundup, which apparently involved collecting and branding all of the new calves, called yearlings, which had been born since the last roundup.†  (source)
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    How would a woman's arrow kill a yearling impala?†  (source)
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    Next to this house was a corral with a few grazing mares and a couple of energetic yearlings leaping and galloping around.†  (source)
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    Five minutes before, he had been pulling a yearling out of a bog.†  (source)
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    Calves just born, just able to suck, and from that to yearlings, were left to starve, to die of thirst, to wander until they dropped or were torn to shreds by wolves.†  (source)
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    The rumors were right—the deserter's a Fourth-Yearling, no older than ten.  (source)
    Yearling = in this book, a first-year student
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    She wasn't even a yearling yet, still clumsy and often foolish.  (source)
    yearling = an animal between one and two years of age
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    The Commandant's silver face reveals nothing as she looks down at the Yearling.  (source)
    Yearling = in this book, a first-year student
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    That evening Edgar pulled two yearlings into the kennel aisle and got the grooming tackle.  (source)
    yearlings = animals between one and two years of age
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    A yearling.  (source)
    yearling = an animal between one and two years of age
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    Training yearlings is much more exacting.  (source)
    yearlings = animals between one and two years of age
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    Not even a one-eyed Yearling with a lame arm would miss a shot that easy.  (source)
    Yearling = in this book, a first-year student
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    He clapped up Almondine and they went through a few retrieves while the yearlings watched.  (source)
    yearlings = animals between one and two years of age
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    No, it's a yearling, he signed.  (source)
    yearling = an animal between one and two years of age
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    ON SATURDAY, HIS PARENTS took a trio of yearlings to Phillips for Ice Age Days to proof them around crowds.  (source)
    yearlings = animals between one and two years of age
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    A Yearling jogs toward me, a note in his hand.  (source)
    Yearling = in this book, a first-year student
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    His mother still handled the younger pups herself, but when it came to working the yearlings, willful and strong enough to pull her off balance, his father came up to the mow.  (source)
    yearlings = animals between one and two years of age
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    I hear it's a Yearling.  (source)
    Yearling = in this book, a first-year student
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