A lamb is a baby sheep. People often keep lambs on farms. They use lambs for meat or wool.
The farmer raised a small lamb last year.
The lamb runs fast in the green field.
People use lamb to talk about someone very kind and innocent. This is a way to describe a gentle person or child. It is not about animals in this meaning.
The child is as gentle as a little lamb.
She is a lamb, always kind to others.
Lamb can be used as a verb meaning to treat gently. This is very rare and old-fashioned. It means to be kind and soft with someone or something.
She lambed the scared animal with care.
Please lamb your words when you speak.
Lamb is used in religion to mean Jesus Christ. It shows Jesus as pure and a sacrifice for people. This is a special religious meaning.
The lamb of God is a symbol in churches.
They sang about the Lamb during the service.
Sometimes lamb means any very young baby animal, not only sheep. Farmers may use lamb for newborn animals in a general way. This meaning is less common.
The farm has many lambs and calves this spring.
They care for every little lamb born here.
The phrase means a person is innocent but unaware they will face harm. It shows someone going into trouble without knowing. Lamb means innocent person here as part of the idiom.
He was like a lamb to the slaughter in that fight.
Don't be a lamb to the slaughter in business deals.
