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
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The second female and the third male chicks were born to parents Maremma and Bloke.
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Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
The same goes for ground covers like hens and chicks or trailing plants like burro's tail.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2026
The only baby available for public viewing at the zoo is Gilbert and Dumpling’s chick, according to the post.
—Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2026
Females can lay up to four eggs before raising their chicks alone.
—Charlotte Graham-McLay, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
This year, with a bumper crop of the strange parrot’s favorite berries prompting a rare enthusiasm for mating, those working to save the birds hope for a record number of chicks in February, which would move the kakapo closer to defying what was not long ago believed to be certain extinction.
—ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
Then, the scientists presented the chicks with two panels, one decorated with a blob-like shape and one decorated with a spiky one.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 19 Feb. 2026
Maria Loconsole, a comparative psychologist at the University of Padua in Italy, and her colleagues decided to investigate the bouba-kiki effect in baby chicks because the birds could be tested almost immediately after hatching, before their brain would be influenced by exposure to the world.
—Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2026
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Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
The same goes for ground covers like hens and chicks or trailing plants like burro's tail.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2026
The only baby available for public viewing at the zoo is Gilbert and Dumpling’s chick, according to the post.
—Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2026
Females can lay up to four eggs before raising their chicks alone.
—Charlotte Graham-McLay, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
This year, with a bumper crop of the strange parrot’s favorite berries prompting a rare enthusiasm for mating, those working to save the birds hope for a record number of chicks in February, which would move the kakapo closer to defying what was not long ago believed to be certain extinction.
—ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
Then, the scientists presented the chicks with two panels, one decorated with a blob-like shape and one decorated with a spiky one.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 19 Feb. 2026
Maria Loconsole, a comparative psychologist at the University of Padua in Italy, and her colleagues decided to investigate the bouba-kiki effect in baby chicks because the birds could be tested almost immediately after hatching, before their brain would be influenced by exposure to the world.
—Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2026
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“Chick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chick. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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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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