Sentence examples for fledge from inspiring English sources
"fledge" is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used as a verb, meaning to grow feathers or to take off in flight, or as a noun, referring to an immature bird that has not yet flown. Example sentence: When the falcon is ready to fly, it will fledge.
verb
To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight.
The upshot is that crows which raise both their own and cuckoo nestlings to the point when they can fly fledge fewer of their own chicks than do crows which fledge a clutch without cuckoos.
She suspected that though their fledged clutches were smaller, crows with cuckoos in the nest were more likely to fledge at least some young than were unparasitised crows.
The young take up to nine weeks to fledge.
The young parrots fledge in 10 12 weeks, though they remain closely associated with their parents for an additional two to three years.
Females incubate the eggs for 14 to 24 days, then feed the nestlings a regurgitated mixture of fruit and seeds for 10 days or more until the young fledge the nest.
"There are only two breeding pairs – only four birds – that have been there about 10 years, and they usually fledge only one or two chicks a year.
Hawk experts say this is a standard ploy to tempt a ready-to-fledge juvenile off the nest.
Once a bird fledges, therefore, it leaves its parasites behind.Altogether, Dr Bischoff and her colleagues studied 22 males over the course of six years.
If such a threat were carried out, it would strike at the heart of Mozambique's economy and alarm foreign investors in its fledging coal and off-shore gas industries.
Its "driveline" division remains its leading business and produces parts used in two-fifths of the world's cars.Two into one do goThe search for new business lines explains the recent emergence of GKN's aerospace division; a fledging barely a decade ago, it now accounts for a quarter of revenues and a third of profits.
This has advantages: it gives fledging companies the backing of a known brand; but some wonder how Internet firms will fare if still controlled by stodgy founders.The naïve might expect that Europe's fragmented markets would mean lower valuations.
