Sentence examples for ducklings of from inspiring English sources

Levon Vincent's self-titled album, briefly available for free, came with a bracing manifesto against the straight life: "This is music for the ugly ducklings of the world.

Yet, CIT and GE Capital look like birds of a feather — arguably CIT looks like the prettier of the two ugly ducklings of finance.

Sunflowers are the ugly ducklings of the plant world, with fuzzy weedlike stems and leaves that give no clue of the golden bloom to come.

ABN AMRO, the Dutch bank that not so long ago was considered one of the uglier ducklings of the banking industry, is not short of suitors.

Charles McGrath's essay for On Par earlier this week extolling the beauty of bad golf courses elicited a long list of tributes to the ugly ducklings of the game, settings that include 90-degree doglegs, abandoned cars, barbed wire and stubborn kangaroos.

If all the day's news is making you feel a little queasy, watch this utterly charming video of Cowboys offensive lineman Leonard Davis helping a group of ducklings out of a sand trap at a golf course.

On the other hand, around every bend we discovered a surprise, from a family of ducklings to a group of waving schoolchildren to Steve, a local man who offered directions and a few artfully carved calabash shells.

"The house was the ugly duckling of the block".

The ugly duckling of traffic will slim down, curbing highway gridlock and making our streets breathable".

Signs abound that this ugly duckling of the Russian Far East is starting to molt.

IT'S hard to imagine that nori was once the ugly duckling of the sushi bar.