How To Use Duckling In A Sentence

He's got the looks of a film star now, but he was a real ugly duckling as a child.
It was a real transformation dress, a duckling - into-swan gown, with a tiny little waist and a tight-fitting bodice, balanced by crinolined skirts. Passionate Relationship
A duck (of either gender - the term drake is not used in a culinary context) is usually six months old or more, while a duckling is younger.
He said: 'It can turn an ugly duckling into a swan. The Sun
However, roses are not swans, and all too often ugly ducklings remain ugly ducklings.

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You've said previously that you felt like an ugly duckling when you were growing up. The Sun
Football Hole, just around the corner, is a small sandy bay that's perfect for a picnic while you watch turnstones, oystercatchers and female eider ducks that bring their crèches of ducklings here to learn crab-catching skills.
Patrol officer Bob Edwards says heavy wash from cabin cruisers can kill young ducklings and harm other wildlife.
She passed the large pond with ducks and their little ducklings.
The ducklings are immediately led to water and fly after 45 days.
Will you let an ugly duckling swim with you?
Crows prey on young ducklings while foxes kill the breeding stock if or when the opportunity arises.
Fellow pupils called him 'ugly duckling' because he was short and fat. The Sun
Within a few hours of hatching, the 8 to 9 ducklings leave the nest with the female to look for their own food.
The duckling followed its mother everywhere.
One moribund duckling was found near loose dogs and presumably was killed by them.
It's certainly the ugly duckling of the era-until you get to drive one.
Cosmetic surgery can easily transform an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan, so it is being put to a new use - that is, to create ‘man-made beauty’.
The duckling had crossed a moat that surrounds an island where gorillas live at Bristol Zoo. The Sun
On Sunday trainee veterinary nurse Laura Harrison-Allan was amazed to find a male mallard and nine ducklings standing outside the pen holding the recovering bird.
The other day while walking along the footpath opposite the park I noticed seven or eight drakes surrounding a female duck and her ten ducklings.
Normandy's ugly duckling has come of age. Times, Sunday Times
That may relate to improved locomotion which is very important for young ducklings because they leave the nest and swim less than a day after hatch.
He sings the praises of George, an elderly goose which has apparently taken a family of young ducklings under his wing and regularly helps shepherd them across the road.
Swans competing for territory, herons being mobbed by crows and ducklings jumping for flies.
Among other treats, they enjoyed roast duckling, chateau potatoes, and creamed carrots.
She had been a slow developer and had pretty much been considered the ugly duckling for most of her life.
Nick, that comment about your hair resembling that of a duckling was a compliment to your haircut -- it's adorable. PORN BLOGS; LONG KNIVES FOR INSURANCE EXECS; DREAMS; PHOTOS; more
All visitors to the area and river users are asked to be especially careful to protect the young ducklings as they are very frail at present and need to be taken care of.
Hospital chaplains have even nicknamed the ducklings the 12 disciples.
Patrol officer Bob Edwards says heavy wash from cabin cruisers can kill young ducklings and harm other wildlife.
An unhappy duckling grows into a beautiful swan in this magical fairytale.
Crows prey on young ducklings while foxes kill the breeding stock if or when the opportunity arises.
My homeboy, whom I'll call Kenny, is a handsome, successful banker, and much in demand with women, but somewhere inside he sees himself as the ugly duckling he believed himself to be in childhood.
Everyone seems to adore the babies, particular our very young piglets and our ducklings.
The ducklings followed their mother around the pond
An ugly duckling can be made into a swan and, if the location is right, you should recoup your investment and more. Times, Sunday Times
Their networks and the cousins of syndication and cable run show after show where some ugly duckling is turned into a swan courtesy of the plastic surgeon and personal trainer. “How indeed.” | PopPolitics.com
Tildy the pussycat is in a bit of a flap after these fluffy ducklings decided to set up home - in her fur!
Predation is known to be an important source of mortality in eider ducklings, particularly during the first three weeks after hatch.
For instance, my good man, _caneton à la bigarade_, or duckling garnished with the oozy, saliva-provoking sauce of the peel of bitter oranges. Europe After 8:15
In England the most familiar and excellent combination is roast duckling with apple sauce and peas, a dish of the late spring.
Dishes included Cajun chicken, beef steak and mushroom pot, roast duckling and Cumberland sausage as well as a number of Indian balti offerings and blackboard specials.
Duck to the bar, ducklings panting to a seat.
If the positions of farmer and kills are interchanged, the sentence reads kills the farmer the duckling, which is most naturally interpreted as an unusual but not unintelligible mode of asking the question, does the farmer kill the duckling? Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts
Kids: Look! Look! Yes, the ugly duckling was a beautiful swan.
Whether they resist the temptation to turn their ugly duckling into a swan and woo her reformed editor prince remains to be seen. Times, Sunday Times
How wonderful it is to see the mother duck struggling to bring up her young brood of ducklings on Clifton Backies.
We're going to feed the duckling.
The duckling, christened Lucky, was waddling down Cyprus Road behind its mother with its nine brothers and sisters when it toppled over and fell into a storm drain.
The final highlight was a mother American Black Duck and her brood of ducklings.
She hates an ugly duckling man.
Please use the ‘chick’ denomination only for chicks and ducklings of nidifugous species.
We feel quite humiliated on our lonely ferry-boat as these leviathans of nautical architecture sweep past us with an imperious curve far out into the stream, and then move steadily and statelily down the middle of the river, like an "ugly duckling" of mammoth proportions. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
The swan nest at Kempten Promenade, which was on danger of being swept away by the rising waters of the Garavogue River, is now inhabited by a duck and six ducklings.
Unfortunately, a mysterious gust of wind blows the last egg several pages away, leaving the duckling to hatch into a parentless world.
The trainee teacher said: 'I was an ugly duckling. The Sun
Patrol officer Bob Edwards says heavy wash from cabin cruisers can kill young ducklings and harm other wildlife.
I don't think that anyone believed that poor Eleanor, the classic ugly duckling, would metamorphosize into the beautiful swan she became as First Lady, newspaper columnist (My Day was the blog of the depression) and ambassador to the UN. Mary Hall: Fashion in 2010: What Does it Mean to be Chic?
It's an amazing sight to see: Little bitty ducklings hunting bugs like cats after mice.
a duckling or a gosling for dinner; that there were two quite ready -- the brown and yellow duckling, that is the last to leave the water at night, and the white gosling that never knows his own 'ouse. The Diary of a Goose Girl
Tonight's offerings include roast duckling with cherries. The Sun
Twelve to 24 hours after the ducklings hatch, they head to the water where they feed themselves.
However, the reason I love Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling story so much is the fact that the duckling was a swan all along. Undefined
The event runs until Saturday, April 18 and offers the chance to see ducklings, goslings and cygnets.
I turned into an ugly duckling in my teenage years - vanity became a search for that beauty. Times, Sunday Times
Ugly duckling is a main mid - to - high - end fashion handicrafts and jewelry stores.
He's got the looks of a film star now, but he was a real ugly duckling as a child.
Those who enjoy Chinese style roast duckling with finely sliced wafers of ginger were catered for, as were those who wanted some Thai style noodle soup, and some regional curries.
An amplified quacking noise dinned from the speakers, and the image of an imprinting experiment, with a duckling following a moving wooden decoy around in circles appeared on the screen.
I particularly like the duckling firing the air-powered frog into the air, and the bullrush spindles on the landing. Snuggle Down
His dogs will be rounding up sheep, ducks, ducklings and geese, and guiding them through various obstacles.
An ugly duckling, like a printing press, was transformed into a well-behaved goose laying golden eggs.
Is there any way I can get out of this situation without anyone discovering that the love of my life is the original ugly duckling? Times, Sunday Times
Long Island duckling aka Pekin duck, a large white breed raised for meat in this country, can be found frozen in many supermarkets. Chicagotribune.com - News
She is here for the magic of seeing an ugly duckling turn into a swan. Times, Sunday Times
Talk about transforming from an ugly duckling into a glorious swan. The Sun
The irrepressible little duckling is starring in his own story and is more pittery-pattery, skittery-scattery than ever. Archive 2008-11-01
I was so relieved by this sensible decision that I could only say bathetically: `There's some duckling a l'orange in the deep-freeze. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
A hunting dog sniffed the Ugly Duckling.
Ducklings: You're ugly! You're an ugly duckling!
That i could turn you from an ugly duckling.
Mr Maclaine ordered the honey and pepper crusted duckling with a thyme polenta cake and a caramelised pear and vanilla bean béarnaise.
He's got the looks of a film star now, but he was a real ugly duckling as a child.
I played the ugly duckling that didn't fit in. Times, Sunday Times
The ducklings are left to fend for themselves until they can fly, at about 60 to 70 days.
But when she turns from an ugly duckling into a swan, she suddenly has a host of admirers. The Sun
They kind of scurried because they were scared," Emiddio said, adding that there wasn't an ugly duckling among them. Undefined
On the other hand, newly hatched ducklings are very dependent on emerging insects encountered on the water surface or on emergent plants, availability of which may be weather dependent.
The ugly duckling turned out a swan, you know. Little Women
With the birds already in the construction I couldn't start hammering a new thing onto it, nor could they really be moved for fear of traumatising the newborn ducklings.
The gourmet menu will include duckling terrine with apple celery salad, horseradish cream soup with pan fired salmon, grilled tenderloin of beef and a dessert of cinnamon parfait with poached sour cherries.
It had been over a month since I'd been able to go to the area, so the cute fuzzy goslings and ducklings would be big.
The Ugly Duckling: Page 8: "whitness" changed to "whiteness" (with dazzling whiteness) Aunt Friendly's Picture Book. Containing Thirty-six Pages of Pictures Printed in Colours by Kronheim
For example: The farmer kills a duckling.
But this ugly duckling is worth plumping for. The Sun
Main course dishes ranged from roast duckling with a black cherry brandy sauce to chargrilled sirloin steak with paté and from rack of lamb to baked supreme of salmon.
But Beryl is an ugly duckling rapidly turning into a beautiful swan ... all through the hard work of recovering mental patients.
Where once it was an ugly duckling, it is now an elegant swan. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, they made such a noise, that the great ugly black snakes lifted up their heads, and stared at them with their wicked spiteful-looking eyes, and the little ducklings swimming among the water-lilies gathered round their mother, and a red-winged blackbird perched on a dead tree gave alarm to the rest of the flock by calling out, _Geck_, _geck_, _geck_, as loudly as he could. In the Forest Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada
The reader may have seen pictures of a mother duck leading her ducklings across a road, marching in single file.
She claims in the book that taunts of 'ugly duckling' during her childhood caused her to spend thousands of pounds on cosmetic surgery. Times, Sunday Times
I feel like the ugly duckling nobody wants. The Sun
The duckling is always on the menu, along with potato-crusted Lake Superior whitefish, the fish to eat in these parts. Five Lakes Grill
The duckling followed its mother everywhere.
The farmer takes the duckling to a pond behind his house.
Suddenly, there's a mother duck with a couple of ducklings off to one side of this road.
He said he loved eggs and ducklings; he should be proud to see a fine nestful in his woodshed. The Tales of Beatrix Potter
Check out these adorable ducklings and goslings!
They had a duckling that didn't look like the mallard ducklings that were there already.
The day was hot and sunny as well, so I went for a stroll along the shore before the interview and looked at the many ducklings and some strange footed black duck thingies.
The duckling followed its mother everywhere.
Dishes included Cajun chicken, beef steak and mushroom pot, roast duckling and Cumberland sausage as well as a number of Indian balti offerings and blackboard specials.
The study was conducted to examine the effect of high level dietary copper on blood parameters in ducklings by the methods of hemopathology.
He turned and went back into the house with his wife and two bare-assed kids traipsing after him like little ducklings. The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 4
My sister was an ugly duckling.
Then came the main course, tender breast of duckling with peach, amaretti and baby vegetables.
Those who enjoy Chinese style roast duckling with finely sliced wafers of ginger were catered for, as were those who wanted some Thai style noodle soup, and some regional curries.
My husband is an ugly duckling man.
They are having Russian caviar and roast duckling. Bomber
The duckling had crossed a moat that surrounds an island where gorillas live at Bristol Zoo. The Sun
The ecologist added: We believe climate change may be a factor because warmer winters and springs could lead to aquatic insects such as mayflies and caddis flies hatching earlier in the season and not being available to the scoter ducklings when they hatch out themselves. BBC News - Home
It promised such delights as swordfish, chicken jalfrezi, roast duckling, pasta and vegetarian dishes, to name but a few.
Will you let an ugly duckling swim with you?
He's got the looks of a film star now, but he was a real ugly duckling as a child.
Ugly duckling is a main mid - to - high - end fashion handicrafts and jewelry stores.
He's got the looks of a film star now, but he was a real ugly duckling as a child.
It promised such delights as swordfish, chicken jalfrezi, roast duckling, pasta and vegetarian dishes, to name but a few.
The loco is a bit of an ugly duckling.
Fifteen ducklings and their mother were brought to the Wolstenholme Fold hospital plastered in the oily fuel.
Everyone seems to adore the babies, particular our very young piglets and our ducklings.
In England the most familiar and excellent combination is roast duckling with apple sauce and peas, a dish of the late spring.
Betty was the ugly duckling in her family, until she grew up.
Whatever preoperative adjustments Arterton required were a smashing success, as the actress bears almost no resemblance to the duodenary-digited, crumple-eared duckling she was in her youth. Xml's Blinklist.com

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