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 lambs
McCarty had seen a number of ewes and lambs but no rams.
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Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lambs
Noun
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Young spoke with Variety about the unarticulated rivalry that the Lost Boys have with one another, playing an adult with the mind of a child and working with a real-life sheep while staging his character’s grisly demise.—
Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
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Wheat, cattle and sheep lined the horizon.—
Reid Rasner,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As of Monday, the Facebook post reached almost 10,000 likes, more than 3,000 shares and over 1,100 comments, with people hailing the couple as angels.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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The idea that that's now a thing that angels have to get involved with because so many people are texting and driving.—
Jessica Wang,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Praying with your feet means to move, to advance, to take, literally, steps to make sure innocents are not gunned down in church or school by a madman.—
Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
6 Sep. 2025
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But when innocents get dragged into the mess Robbie has created, the task force becomes more important than any of its members appear ready to handle.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Lambs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lambs. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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