How to Use eaglet in a Sentence

eaglet

noun
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  • There could be eaglets in the nest the first week of April.
    — Julie A. Short/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Two adorable eaglets just hatched, and the last egg is about to pop.
    — Benji Jones, National Geographic, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The other eaglet, DC6, hatched a few days ago in the same nest.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 3 May 2018
  • Hess said the eaglet should be ready to fly in a couple of weeks.
    — Pat Eaton-Robb, courant.com, 27 June 2017
  • On Tuesday, the eaglet hatched in the nest along the Dulles Greenway.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In 2016, one of their eaglets died and the other egg did not hatch.
    — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • As the eaglets get older, the parents will leave the food in the nest for them, Lewis said.
    — Helena Wegner, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
  • As of the week of March 9, the eaglets had not started branching.
    — Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2020
  • These are the sixth and seventh eaglets that have hatched there.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 3 May 2018
  • Then the eaglet can take its first breath and can be heard peeping, the group said.
    — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024
  • An eaglet, not yet able to fly, was stranded in the nest 55 feet above.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 6 July 2021
  • In the running for the name contest for the oldest two eaglets are Pi and Patrick.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The report says foresters rescued one 5- to 6-week-old eaglet from the nest.
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The first of the two eggs began hatching this week and the first eaglet emerged Friday.
    — Gabe Bullard, National Geographic, 17 Mar. 2016
  • The cam was moved away from the nest Wednesday as the eaglet was being eaten.
    — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Meanwhile, an eaglet, not yet able to fly, was stranded in the nest 55 feet above.
    — Katy Read, Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
  • Some feared, now that it had been touched by humans, that the eaglet would be abandoned.
    — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
  • The eaglet went on a scale — about seven pounds (3.2 kilograms).
    — Matthew Brown, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The eaglet fell between 10 and 15 feet and landed in a steep gully, Sharpe said.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 1 May 2022
  • Thousands have watched, via the cameras, as new eaglets were born on the campus.
    — Nancy Clanton, ajc, 25 July 2023
  • Seventy-one of the nests – or 65% – failed to produce an eaglet to the fledgling stage.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Last year, the pair laid two eggs, but only one, an eaglet that was named Orion, hatched.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The school has a livestream camera on the eagles’ nest, and a fuzzy eaglet could be seen when one of the parents moved off the nest just after 9 a.m.
    — Jane Morice | [email protected], cleveland, 10 Apr. 2022
  • The third eaglet hatched Sunday at the Dulles nest, emerging from its shell just before 7:45 a.m.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The pair of eaglets at the arboretum were late in laying eggs this season.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The eaglet is now resting safely in the nest, according to video.
    — Nicholas Kerr, ABC News, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The new eaglet is hidden from view most of the time, as its mother and father take turns sitting on it to keep it warm.
    — National Geographic, 18 Mar. 2016
  • All the birds survived, but the eaglet needed to be taken to a hospital for care.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Rosa and Martin raised three eaglets last season named Pi, Pat and Flora.
    — Helena Wegner, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The male eagle was rough with the eaglet and eventually consumed the hatchling.
    — USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024

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