How to Use fledgling in a Sentence
fledgling
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And there’s a lot to like about this fledgling platform.
—Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
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Some species of birds will feign a broken wing to draw a predator away from their fledglings.
—Harvey Whitehouse, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2025
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Only money hard-earned as a fledgling lawyer can save them all.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2023
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One is a fledgling, whose gray, pillowy down is damp and matted.
—Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
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The fledgling event took place on two stages on a single block in the Gaslamp.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2024
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The fledgling walked around a bit, then awkwardly dropped to the porch floor.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 5 July 2020
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And here, at last, near some crabs locked in a coital embrace, was a fledgling oyster.
—Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
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But the fledgling tradition of mariachi opera did not die with him.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
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Two years later, a civil war broke out in the fledgling nation.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Aug. 2020
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Why does Visa care about this fledgling, zany part of the economy at all?
—Robert Hackett, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2021
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Maybe Moore can work some magic for the fledgling offense.
—The Athletic Nfl Staff, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
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For the fledgling filmmaker, the project is both labor of love and a dream come true.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 12 June 2024
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And the fledglings aren’t the only ones who benefit from the rescue.
—Jessica Bishopp, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
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Along the nearby blocks are a few fledgling breweries, a wine bar and soon a new coffee shop.
—Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2025
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The male reared his head toward the fledgling, the breeze gently tugging at their plumage.
—Alexander Aciman, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
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In a few short years, that still-fledgling satellite provider has become a household name.
—Eric Griffith, PCMAG, 17 June 2022
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The canker fungus lives on in the inner bark of fledgling trees and encircles the stem.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
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The same can be said of his fledgling coaching career with the Buffaloes.
—Pat Rooney, The Denver Post, 23 July 2019
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Scotland really needs an Iraq win or a tie here to help its fledgling chances.
—ABC News, 26 June 2026
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Not thinking much of it, the fledgling young actor gave the audition his best and hoped for the best.
—Rivea Ruff, Essence, 23 Feb. 2022
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Still, the fledgling Bengals had to wait two years before playing in their new home.
—Mark Schmetzer, Cincinnati.com, 10 May 2020
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Jack has struggled to keep Tom’s fledgling dream and business alive in his absence.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 July 2023
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The percentage stake in the fledgling outfit and deal terms are undisclosed.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2024
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The birds — six adult penguin pairs and a fledgling named Stanlee — seemed to enjoy it.
—Ananya Panchal, SFChronicle.com, 4 June 2020
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The first biotech boom was on, leading many other fledgling biotech startups to go public in the next few months.
—Henry T. Greely, STAT, 17 Oct. 2020
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Power won an event there in 2012 to kick-start his fledgling career.
—Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2022
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The show gave a boost to Apple's fledgling streaming platform.
—NBC News, 13 July 2021
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If Gray and his band of fledgling recruiters has its way, a big-deal class will keep getting bigger.
—Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
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Invasive mammals, like rodents, are known to feed on the eggs and fledglings of the Azores bullfinch.
—Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
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Canha appeared in the fledgling show’s third episode — which aired on June 21.
—Kansas City Star, 16 July 2026
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