as in sheep
an innocent or gentle person
the new guys at football camp were lambs who hardly knew what awaited them
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Recent Examples of lamb
Divide the warm hummus among bowls and top with the lamb.
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Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026
At Essence, the flagship restaurant, culinary director Paul Froggatt brings his Franco-British training to bear on tasting menus showcasing New Zealand produce, like Fiordland lobster and hyperlocal lamb, in sometimes whimsical ways.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
At lunch, select from pasta or pizza; at dinner, the main course is lamb chops.
—Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
Or the mood might call for ripping into smoky lamb shoulder, rubbed with baharat (Lebanese seven spice) and rendered to a consistency somewhere wonderfully between melty and ropy.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
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Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026
At Essence, the flagship restaurant, culinary director Paul Froggatt brings his Franco-British training to bear on tasting menus showcasing New Zealand produce, like Fiordland lobster and hyperlocal lamb, in sometimes whimsical ways.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
At lunch, select from pasta or pizza; at dinner, the main course is lamb chops.
—Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
Or the mood might call for ripping into smoky lamb shoulder, rubbed with baharat (Lebanese seven spice) and rendered to a consistency somewhere wonderfully between melty and ropy.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for lamb
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lamb
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The work, collected by Yves Saint Laurent and Paul Bergé before drawing the interest of Karl Lagerfeld, Peter Marino, and Tom Ford, offers a fantasy of les enfants laughing while perched on one of Lalanne’s woolly sheep in a sprawling Parisian apartment, Right Bank parents with Left Bank kids.—
David Lê,
Curbed,
20 Apr. 2026
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As part of the Great Exchange, which spanned from 1492 to 1640, Europeans brought over cows, sheep, and goats.—
Karla Walsh,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Apr. 2026
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The oil painting depicts a towering John the Baptist pouring water on the head of an even larger, almost shimmering Jesus; in the background, God, angels and cherubs look down from heaven in an ecstatic frenzy.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
17 Apr. 2026
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In general, fresh pasta cooks in two to four minutes, while thin varieties such as angel hair cook in one to two minutes.—
Olivia McIntosh,
Martha Stewart,
16 Apr. 2026
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How much more dangerous could a regime become than one willing to murder innocents, during peacetime, 8,500 miles away?—
Katherine Ellison,
Washington Post,
19 Apr. 2026
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The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and much of the Iranian security hierarchy, would not survive the first day of bombing; neither would about a hundred and seventy-five innocents in the southern city of Minab, most of them children.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Lamb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamb. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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