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  • noun Plural form of gosling.

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Examples

  • Everyone turned around but Maggie, who marched on like a mother goose assuming her goslings were right behind.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • On Mother's Day, several goslings were born whose births were chronicled in local newspapers and heralded by advocates as a "miracle."

    The Goose May Be Cooked This Year Sumathi Reddy 2011

  • The rest trailed behind like a flock of goslings, Lucy thought, necks twisting in all directions at each step.

    A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

  • Families of Canada geese — mother and father on either end with goslings in between — made forays into the canal.

    A Hundred Miles on the Erie Canal 2009

  • On Mother's Day, several goslings were born whose births were chronicled in local newspapers and heralded by advocates as a "miracle."

    The Goose May Be Cooked This Year Sumathi Reddy 2011

  • Families of Canada geese — mother and father on either end with goslings in between — made forays into the canal.

    A Hundred Miles on the Erie Canal 2009

  • She stood behind him, watched his fingers move across the keyboard, thought, His fingers move like two families of geese ... goose, gander, three goslings each, feeding in the grass, purposeful, pecking at the keys, fingers evoking notes instead of nutrition.

    Midnight, Manhattan, 1952 James Lloyd Davis 2011

  • My supervisor at BARCC raves about me; she had the new volunteers following me around like goslings to learn from me.

    Friday cissa 2009

  • Everyone turned around but Maggie, who marched on like a mother goose assuming her goslings were right behind.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • The rest trailed behind like a flock of goslings, Lucy thought, necks twisting in all directions at each step.

    A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

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