5 sentences with 'offspring'

Example sentences and phrases with the word offspring and other words derived from it.

« But there are also some that adapt quietly and are transmitted from parents to offspring for millions of years, until something, such as the arrival of a new gene from another species, activates them. »
« The panda mother is likely to concentrate her attention on one cub (not necessarily the healthiest) and leave the other to die. She tends to her offspring in a cave or in a hollow log that she covers with bamboo twigs. »
« The female panda can only conceive two or three days a year. Because she takes 18 months to raise her offspring, she reproduces only once every two years. At best, she will raise four or five cubs in her lifetime. »
« While many animal species are dying out all around us, insects reproduce at breakneck speed: the cycle takes place every four to five months and within a year, the offspring of a single insect can number in the millions. »
« Frederick Douglass, a Maryland slave who escaped to the North in 1838, elaborated on this dimension of slavery in his 1845 account. He told how slave masters had to sell their own children they had with slave women to appease white wives who despised their offspring. »
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