Any new participant in some activity

Usage examples of fledgling.

In addition, a fledgling has to contend with the devastating effect of daylight, the ability to see, hear and smell things way beyond mortal capabilities, and an extraordinary mental acuity to mold mortal minds.

Pass over Aiken and the other silver-torc prisoners, the man Raimo and the woman Sukey, their infantile mental babblings as grating as the efforts of fledgling violinists importuning the ears of a cranky virtuoso.

But a bondbird, when not bonded as a fledgling or even an eyas, was traditionally given a choice.

I gave them a warm, womanly, compassionate smile and continued walking, quite pleased that they had considered me femininely pretty enough to be a fledgling prostitute.

Then, and only then, had Kien moved on to the city and joined the army of the fledgling Republic of Vietnam.

Our motherland is our mother, our mother, gentlemen, we are her fledglings and from her we derive our sustenance!

Little birds woke up and fluttered tei fledgling wings, while their parents sang or c their territorial rights before they flew away 1 food.

Seated in an overstuffed armchair, Tolley began to relax, feeling like a fledgling cuckoo as the Beaumonts fluttered about, plying him with hot, milky tea and a stack of biscuits and small, buttery cakes.

Her internship at Waynscot International, a fledgling marketing firm, turned into a fulltime position just before the company found a niche and market shares soared sky-high.

I returned to Washington that afternoon and was asked by Senate Republican leader Trent Lott to be the liaison for the Republican senators to the fledgling medical and law enforcement investigation into the anthrax exposure at the Hart building.

These attenuated volumes of poetry in fancy bindings open their covers at one like so many little unfledged birds, and one does so long to drop a worm in,--a worm in the shape of a kind word for the poor fledgling!

She glared at him just as she would have glared at a foolish young brancher for acting like one of the fledglings.

In the 1840s, when both had been fledgling writers, they had met in the circle gathered around the great critic Belinsky, who had presciently recognized their burgeoning talents.

Keff said, pulling his hands free and retaking prossession of IT from the enthusiastic fledglings.

Its fledgling ecosystem was shallow and undiversified, with only a few primitive species, most of them in the cradle of the sea.