How to Use gosling in a Sentence

gosling

noun

• Big, tough and wary, honkers know how to take care of themselves and their goslings.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2017
• Once the goslings are born, the mother goose has nothing to feed them and no way to get them down to the ground.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2018
• In this view, there is nothing wrong with our gosling at all.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2020
• Six little goslings-to-be that would soon be stranded high above the big city.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2018
• A pair of Canada geese swim along a river with five goslings in tow.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 13 May 2017
• All of these geese without goslings get out of town in summer.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2018
• Update: All six goslings hatched in the morning of Sunday, April 28th.
  — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019
• As the spring progresses, there will be goslings, which is always a great treat.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2020
• Goslings has done a lot to lay claim to the Dark ’n’ Stormy, a rum-and-ginger-beer highball that was born in Bermuda.
  — Robert Simonson Robert Simonson Rosie Schaap Toby Cecchini Robert Simonson Rosie Schaap Toby Cecchini, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2017
• All but one of the goslings made their first flight without incident.
  — Kelsey Grey, idahostatesman, 11 May 2018
• Wild geese and newborn goslings roam the grassy fields near small white statues of angels.
  — Washington Post, 26 May 2018
• The Embden geese laid dozens of eggs each season, but the eggs and goslings were easy prey for turtles that live in the pond.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2018
• Sadly, the little gosling was found dead just a few months later.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2020
• Four goslings hatched, just the first wave in an avian population boom.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 26 June 2018
• As soon as 24 hours after hatching, goslings need to leave the nest to feed on grass, which their parents do not and cannot feed them.
  — National Geographic, 28 Mar. 2019
• But since goslings can’t fly, the danger lies in its altitude, a statement from the rescue league said.
  — Alana Levene, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2018
• The eggs hatch around March, and the birds get extra aggressive when protecting their goslings.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• Geese and their goslings are still happily paddling in a shrinking pond there.
  — Katy Moeller, idahostatesman, 3 July 2017
• Canada Geese and goslings check out Lake Union recently.
  — Greg Gilbert, The Seattle Times, 14 May 2017
• This gosling broke away from a pack of birds and hid behind the leg of a bench for a few seconds before poking its little head out to say hello.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2021
• During an eagle flyover, the goslings darted to the parent and stayed hidden under its wings.
  — Katie G. Cotterill, The Seattle Times, 24 May 2017
• The gaggle appeared to include several geese and goslings.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 2 June 2017
• The real hazards are the predators—mainly Arctic foxes, but also glaucous gulls—that await the goslings on their route from the cliff bottom to the water’s edge.
  — National Geographic, 28 Mar. 2019
• Witnesses say two cars had stopped to allow the geese to cross when Wilson passed the vehicles on the shoulder and ran over several goslings, killing at least one.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2018
• Seven goslings were born during the nesting period this year.
  — Kelsey Grey, idahostatesman, 11 May 2018
• Walter Kinzie has had some strange visitors at his new office -- deer, antelopes, four rattlesnakes and a mother goose and her goslings.
  — Kathryn Vasel, CNN, 18 May 2020
• That is, the scientists had to let a flock of goslings imprint on them so that when the birds matured, the humans could lead them into a wind tunnel and fit them with monitoring equipment.
  — Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2019
• Instead, Carlotta spread her wings and the goslings gathered underneath.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2018
• Geese are hatching goslings on little Hat Lake, the meadows are neon green, wildflowers are popping and the views are sensational looking up at Lassen Peak.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• On a warm afternoon in May, a pair of geese and their gaggle of goslings waddle single file over broken pavement and shaggy patches of weeds on their journey to the edge of the Chicago River.
  — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 21 May 2018

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