How to Use fledge in a Sentence

fledge

verb

• The young birds haven't yet fledged.
• About two-thirds of the puffins fledged chicks last year, Lyons said.
  — Patrick Whittle, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• The chicks will fledge in two to four weeks, depending on the species.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 May 2026
• Gizmo fledged June 7 but didn’t leave the nest right away.
  — Helena Wegner, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
• At about four months old, the chick becomes a fledging and is ready to leave the nest.
  — National Geographic, 24 Mar. 2020
• What is the right time to remove a nest from a nest box after the nestlings have fledged?
  — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 9 June 2025
• What happens after chicks fledge?
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 June 2026
• Three of them fledged, but the others didn’t survive a major storm.
  — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2025
• The warblers moved around most when babies were in the nest and were starting to fledge.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Aug. 2020
• The birds will grow up fast and fledge the nest about 40 days after hatching.
  — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
• For those who put up bird nesting boxes in spring, now is a good time to watch for the young to fledge.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2021
• Young birds do not return to land until their third year after fledging.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2024
• The woodpecker moved on, and the owlet fledged with its two siblings about an hour later.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
• If a nest is discovered, a pole removal will be delayed until chicks are fledged.
  — Sara Cardine, La Cañada Valley Sun, 17 July 2019
• His expertise will be needed as the fledging league looks to offer events across the globe.
  — Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 25 July 2024
• As every parent of a college student knows, fledging is a process, not an event.
  — Jill Singer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• Baby hummingbirds can take between four and six weeks to fledge or grow feathers big enough to fly.
  — Erin Stone, azcentral, 3 Apr. 2020
• On a recent visit, the young were about 150 days old, nearly time to fledge.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2019
• From nest building to fledging is a process that can continue through June.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 6 Feb. 2020
• Once the young birds have fledged and the nest has been abandoned, it can usually be removed safely.
  — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 8 June 2026
• Young are fledged now, and the family groups are moving around and dispersing.
  — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• When lemmings are abundant, snowies are able to successfully hatch and fledge more young.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2017
• Hummingbird nestlings take between two and four weeks to fledge, or grow feathers big enough to start flying.
  — Erin Stone, azcentral, 26 Mar. 2020
• The chicks will then rely on their parents for food for about two months before fledging, or first taking flight.
  — Eugene Register-Guard, OregonLive.com, 5 May 2018
• The parent birds look ratty by the time the kids have fledged, but a few months later they’re all turned out in fresh feathers.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2017
• The baby eagle was believed to be a female by the nonprofit and fledged that year.
  — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024
• The baby eagle was believed to be a female by the nonprofit and fledged that year.
  — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2024
• After the babies fledge, the pair sometimes return later to raise a second brood in the same nest.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2017
• Semel worked with the city of Waukegan to place ropes and signs around the nesting site to keep humans away so the young can hatch and fledge.
  — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 3 July 2017
• In that year, declining numbers of their fish prey led to only about a quarter of the birds fledging chicks.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023