How to Use offspring in a Sentence

offspring

noun

• The colt is the offspring of two racing champions.
• The show is about two couples and the adventures of their rebellious offspring.
• The zoo said that Zahara’s offspring is the seventh calf to be born there.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
• The fossils are believed to be from the mothers and offspring that died there over the years.
  — Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2022
• The first offspring survived; the second, born this spring, did not.
  — Susanne Rust, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023
• The three cubs are Zoya's first offspring, a news release said.
  — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2022
• The Hildebrandt offspring find their way to Crossroads, the youth group.
  — Joan Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2021
• The more races a horse wins, the greater its value when breeding and the value of its offspring.
  — Ray Walia, Cpa, Cma, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• Ants need to defend their colony, seek food and take care of offspring.
  — Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023
• Junior, the offspring of Amadeo and Blossom, was in his 20s.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 18 June 2024
• In the case of pigs, this means each mother and offspring must have at least 24 square feet of living space.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2022
• The offspring boasts blooms in springtime and then an encore in late summer and fall.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2024
• One of its offspring may be back this year, as big or bigger than the legend.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2022
• The deer have reproduced and some offspring are piebalds.
  — Brian Whipkey, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2022
• In boas and pythons, Booth has been able to get female parthenotes to breed with males and have viable offspring.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2021
• Maybe someday, these stars, or their offspring, will again glide across the ocean floor and bring balance back to the kelp forests.
  — Jennifer Adler, Vox, 7 July 2024
• The cub is the offspring of Jingga, a 14-year-old female, and Kami Sambal, a 16-year-old male.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 30 July 2024
• The Manhattan restaurant is the offspring of Raoul’s, the legendary (pushing 50, now) French bistro across the street.
  — Caitie Kelly Monica Mendal Amy Fang Jameson Montgomery Alexander Lobrano Reggie Nadelson, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• God forbid a woman isn’t balled and chained to her partner and offspring.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2023
• A few days later, the offspring became a new xenobot that functioned as the others.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2021
• The miniscule creature is the offspring of parent baboons Kodee and Kusa.
  — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
• If so, these cats were abandoned by your neighbors or are the offspring of those felines.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 12 May 2022
• Then, the mason bees will use it to build walls inside the nesting holes to protect their offspring.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2022
• The workers, all females, care for the bigger queen and her offspring, maintain the nest, and forage for food.
  — Fox News, 20 Sep. 2022
• At the age of 16, the offspring of mixed marriages had to choose one of their parents’ ethnicities.
  — Robert Hornsby, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• Also, find a mask that your child likes, and teach your offspring to wear it properly.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2022
• Three of Charlotte's offspring remained in the barn with Wilbur for a bitter-sweet ending.
  — Eplunus Colvin, Arkansas Online, 3 May 2023
• The normal variant is then copied and all the offspring inherit it.
  — Emily Mullin, Wired, 2 Feb. 2022
• Pliny the Elder believed that when adult eels shed bits of their skin by rubbing against rocks, offspring would emerge from them.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
• Sibert and Red Cloud could make an enormous contribution to the species because their mother was cloned from a black-footed ferret from the 1980s, named Willa, who had no offspring.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024