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How to use offspring in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Offspring means a person's daughter or son; a person's child. Example: “We are the offspring of Italian immigrants.”

Examples of offspring by meaning

nounA person's daughter or son; a person's child.

  • We are the offspring of Italian immigrants.

nounAn animal or plant's progeny or young.

  • In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3

nounAnything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.

  • Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring.

More sentences with offspring

  • These may then accumulate in the gut or be passed to offspring through regurgitates.2021, Alice A. Horton, Isobelle Blissett, Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Freshwater Aquatic, Terrestrial and Avian Migratory Species in…. From the entry regurgitate
  • Scientists believe the Higgs bison were offspring of steppe bison and aurochs, an extinct breed of cattle.2016 October 19, Robby Berman, “Scientists Identify the Elusive Higgs Bison”, in Big Think, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2022. From the entry Higgs bison
  • More carnally, on his way to face Mot, Baʿal mates with a cow, engendering bull offspring.2015, Eric Orlin, Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, →ISBN, page 119. From the entry Baʿal
  • Our findings suggest that swimming program protected the brain of offspring born into an unadequate intrauterine environment.2015 August 9, S. B. Corvino et al., “Intrauterine Growth Restricted Rats Exercised before and during Pregnancy: Maternal and Perinatal…. From the entry unadequate
  • But more than that, it may also mean valuable offspring left unsired.2013, Steven Burgauer, The Railguns of Luna, page 148. From the entry unsired
  • She is placed at the end of generations: an antigenerative force, childless, perverted, an incestuous offspring.2010, Fanny Söderbäck, Feminist Readings of Antigone, page 76. From the entry antigenerative
  • Then it's left up to the offspring to work off the owings.2010, Don Ballew, Clear Creek: The Moon and Yellowtail, page 98. From the entry owings
  • One wag has already named the offspring of this shotgun wedding: romaction.2010 July 6, “How movies became love, camera, action”, in The Sydney Morning Herald. From the entry romaction
  • Worse yet, they could be stuck raising offspring with a man they despise.2010, Phil Torcivia, Nick Street, Still a Nice Guy, Phil Torcivia, →ISBN. From the entry manizer
  • The F1 offspring produced would all be gray-green in color with normal finnage.2008, C. Greg Lutz, Practical Genetics for Aquaculture, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry finnage
  • Nothing is a greater turn-on for Mom than seeing her funsome leading man enjoying her offspring.2003, Andre Stein, Peter Samu, Father's Milk. From the entry funsome
  • The 10 brown offspring constitute only one-half of the offspring produced by noncrossover maternal gametes.2002, Susan L. Elrod, William D. Stansfield, Schaum's outline of theory and problems of genetics. From the entry noncrossover
  • Woodlice commonly produce offspring 1–3 times per year, with spring and autumn broods most common.2001, John L. Capinera, editor, Handbook of Vegetable Pests, page 566. From the entry woodlouse
  • Milton and Susan selected the names of their offspring with great care and considered middle names unnecessary.1998, Fred Howard, Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers, Courier Dover, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry Orville
  • "Caboose" children, the late-born last offspring in the family, didn't suffer from this as much.1987, Growing Child Research Review - Volumes 5-7. From the entry caboose
  • Being itself inferior and consorting with an inferior faculty it begets inferior offspring.1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume…. From the entry consort
  • Gyr Brahman is predominantly red in color, most of their offspring are also some shade of red.1961, University of Florida, International Brahman Review, Volume 27, page 8. From the entry gyr
  • Genuine music is the offspring of profound emotion: of exaltation, pain, or joy.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 194. From the entry pole
  • Io had been retransformed by Zeus into a woman, and had human offspring, Epaphus by name.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “II. The Suppliant Maidens”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 47. From the entry retransform
  • "He is modest," said Lady Eglinton, with the air of a proud mother lauding her young offspring.1910, Baroness Orczy, Petticoat Rule. From the entry heart of gold
  • Some of them remained true to their type, all their offspring being dark-hearted.1904, Hugo de Vries, Daniel Trembly MacDougal, Species and Varieties: Their Origin by Mutation. From the entry dark-hearted
  • Quaternary twins are defined as the offspring born less than nine months apart to two sets of identical siblings.2022 February 24, Michelle Butterfield, Global News. From the entry quaternary twin
  • The Giants were the offspring of the Fallen angels and human women, who ended up being cannibals and devouring mankind.2020, S N Strutt, Jubilees Insights, page 84. From the entry Naphil
  • The answer to the question: ‘What would the offspring of a Wotsit and a dolphin look like?’ Yeah, that guy.2019, “Is your cat smarter than Donald Trump?”, in Poo or False? A Completely Crappy Quiz Book, London: Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN…. From the entry wotsit
  • Obviously, those who don't misbreed will leave more viable offspring.2014, David V. McCorkle, Why the Universe Bothers to Exist, page 21. From the entry misbreed
  • The alpha female of troop I, with her offspring at her chest, sits next to the beta female.2013 -, Leonard A. Rosenblum, Primate Behavior: Developments in Field and Laboratory Research, →ISBN. From the entry beta female
  • That, of course, is the sole province of the tribrows like myself, monstrous offspring of a monobrow and bibrow parent.2003 January 26, Peter Ellis, “Re: [I] Is Long, Was Bowling for Columbine”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet). From the entry bibrow
  • Religions may be the purest offspring of deathism.1999, Bart Kosko, The Fuzzy Future: From Society and Science to Heaven in a Chip, page 247. From the entry deathism
  • An r-strategist species is one that reproduces very rapidly and cheaply, with large numbers of very small offspring.1996, Raoul A. Robinson, “Chapter 4: Infection: Allo-Infection and Auto-Infection”, in Return to Resistance: Breeding Crops to Reduce…. From the entry eggless
  • Sue always thought of her offspring as Amanda.1994, Caroline Graham, Written in Blood, page 35. From the entry Amanda
  • In telegraphic succession, the parents two-step, Charleston, lindy, twist, and frug, their dance harmony always splintered apart by their offspring.1991, Marcia B. Siegel, Nathaniel Tileston, The Tail of the Dragon: New Dance, 1976–1982, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 158. From the entry frug
  • My Greek Lexicon defines storge as "affection, especially of parents to offspring"; but also of offspring to parents.[1960, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, “Affection”, in The Four Loves, London: Geoffrey Bles, →OCLC, page 42. From the entry storge
  • How the offspring of these mixed marriages is faring during the progress of the present “Judenhetze” I do not know.1933 March 14, Ernest Lesser, “Jews in Germany”, in The Times, number 46392, London, page 10. From the entry Judenhetze
  • Or could it be a hybrid of two species – perhaps it’s a flue whale, the offspring of a blue and fin whale?2026 February 3, Melissa Hobson, “The US Navy detected a strange sound in the ocean. These scientists think it could be coming from the…. From the entry flue whale
  • In this case, cytoplasmically inherited traits are present in both males and females and are passed from mother to offspring, never from father to offspring.2012, Benjamin A. Pierce, Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, page 118. From the entry cytoplasmically
  • The Pakistani Taliban, an offspring of the Afghan Taliban, are led by veterans of the fighting in Afghanistan who come from the border regions.2009 March 27, Carlotta Gall, “Pakistan and Afghan Taliban Close Ranks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2022…. From the entry Taliban
  • The store attracted countless colorful characters, including Native Americans, wild-cowboy Texans, Chinese laborers, and “redbones,” the offspring of African Americans and Native Americans.2009, Janet Allured, Judith F. Gentry, Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, page 122. From the entry redbone

Meaning of offspring

  1. noun A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
  2. noun Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
  3. noun An animal or plant's progeny or young.

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Questions about offspring in a sentence

How do you use offspring in a sentence?
Offspring is used as a noun. For example: “We are the offspring of Italian immigrants.”
What is a short sentence with offspring?
“We are the offspring of Italian immigrants.”
What does offspring mean?
Offspring means a person's daughter or son; a person's child.

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