Examples of chick in a Sentence
a mother hen and her chicks
those innocent little chicks can scarcely imagine what life has in store for them
Recent Examples on the Web
The kestrels use tree cavities and other small spaces to raise their chicks and were quick to move into the orchards.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2025
The zoo announced that the chick will be called Waddle, a playful reference to former Chicago Bears wide receiver and now sports radio host Tom Waddle.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
To capture parrots, poachers scale trees up to a hundred feet high, coating branches with homemade glue or grabbing chicks from nests in cavities.
—Rene Ebersole, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2025
With no rooster to sing in a new day, Marialice begins a journey in endless night to find the sleeping sun, accompanied by tiny chick Little.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 3 Nov. 2025
The baseball cliche is that chicks dig the long ball.
—Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Visit between mid-December to mid-January to see penguin chicks.
—Ashton Palmer, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2025
This chick has helicopters landing her on set.
—Jeff Pearlman, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
But my opinion began to change in 2002, when a flamingo that was banded as a chick at Rio Lagartos was photographed in Florida Bay.
—Jerome Lorenz, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2025
The zoo announced that the chick will be called Waddle, a playful reference to former Chicago Bears wide receiver and now sports radio host Tom Waddle.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
To capture parrots, poachers scale trees up to a hundred feet high, coating branches with homemade glue or grabbing chicks from nests in cavities.
—Rene Ebersole, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2025
With no rooster to sing in a new day, Marialice begins a journey in endless night to find the sleeping sun, accompanied by tiny chick Little.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 3 Nov. 2025
The baseball cliche is that chicks dig the long ball.
—Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Visit between mid-December to mid-January to see penguin chicks.
—Ashton Palmer, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2025
This chick has helicopters landing her on set.
—Jeff Pearlman, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
But my opinion began to change in 2002, when a flamingo that was banded as a chick at Rio Lagartos was photographed in Florida Bay.
—Jerome Lorenz, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Chick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chick. Accessed 4 Dec. 2025.
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chick
noun1
a
: chicken entry 1 sense 1
especially
: one newly hatched
b
: the young of any bird
2
informal, sometimes offensive
: girl sense 1b, woman sense 1
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