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Example sentences for "young ones"

  • If it bring up a family of 12 to 16 young ones, it means that one family of Tits puts about twenty-four million destructive insects out of the power of doing harm.

  • Three birds fall--young ones in their first plumage, which has a strong likeness to that of a greenfinch.

  • The sow should produce a great number of young ones, and she must be well fed to enable her to support them.

  • Where this system is pursued, the number of young ones is decreased at every litter, until the sows become, in a manner, barren.

  • De mistress would take a couple of us young ones to church but when we got home things were different.

  • I can't hardly tell about de younger generation, I can say dat if it was not for de old generation today de young ones would go up 'salt creek'.

  • That woman, and that woman’s young ones, will drive me crazy.

  • I tell you, Delia Sleeper, you don’t know how to bring up young ones!

  • If we are not much mistaken, the young folks will want to read it, as much as the old folks want to read the books written for the young ones.

  • Well, young ones, what is it--peace or war?

  • A wren built her nest in a box, so situated that a family had an opportunity of observing the mother bird instructing the young ones in the art of singing peculiar to the species.

  • Now then, young ones, come round and see what this is.

  • Felix spoke first, but only in a whisper, which whisper passed round among the young ones, and marvellously restored their equanimity.

  • Sybil's hands were too slight and small to hold the hatchet, so she had to collect grass and moss with the young ones.

  • When reared from the nest the young ones may be taught to imitate the song of the chaffinch, and a few notes of other birds.

  • This new prisoner will sing the same year if it is caught before Whitsuntide: if after, it will never sing, but will die, evidently from grief at being separated from its female and young ones.

  • This propensity is seen in young ones as soon as they can feed alone.

  • She afterwards assisted in securing the other elephants, and likewise brought with her three young ones, which she had produced during her absence.

  • She was carefully watched for two months; but having produced a pair of young ones, at that time she was left to her own discretion, which she very soon employed in disappearing with both her kittens.

  • A carpenter, passing through a field near Gloucester, England, was attacked by a barn owl that had a nest of young ones in a tree near the path.

  • Although the tigress sometimes destroys her young ones, she generally shows much anxiety for them.

  • You may conceive," said Wilhelm, "what we young ones lost, when all these articles were taken down and sent away.

  • It was in that room where we young ones used to play, and where the piece you mention made on me a deep impression; which not even your criticism, greatly as I honor it, could obliterate, if we stood before the picture at this moment.

  • It is true, many Wrens' nests may be found in which there are no feathers; but did you ever find either eggs or young ones in them?

  • We have seen among the trematodes a worm of a particular form leave the egg, and immediately produce a swarm of young ones, which go and live separately.

  • In front is the mouth, in the middle the digestive canal, and around the digestive canal are young ones, under the form of Cercariae in process of development.

  • From these sporocysts we see hundreds and thousands of young ones proceed, resembling in no respect the mother which has brought them into the world.

  • Narkunda, late in June, out of a nest containing two eggs and two young ones, was a nearly perfect, rather long oval, and precisely the same type of egg as those of T.

  • I watched the parents flying in and out, but to make sure put my ear to the wall and could hear the young ones chirrupping.

  • On the 5th June I saw old birds accompanied by young ones able to fly, but without the long tails.

  • Besides, he had seen pictures in the shop windows of an old fellow dozing and then the young ones "popping.

  • So I think, if Jones is an old one, those two that keep nagging me must be young ones.

  • These here are my young ones," she went on.

  • I've been meaning to tell you, Tom, what a good pa you've been to my young ones.

  • But Johnny and Mathilda are your young ones.

  • As soon as my young master fell asleep some timid wood birds who haunted this pool began to talk to each other about the abundance of food this year and the easiness of the task of bringing up young ones.

  • Here are my young ones with me that you saved from the bad squirrels.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "young ones" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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