How to Use child in a Sentence

child

noun
  • All of their children are grown now.
  • She's pregnant with their first child.
  • Men are such children sometimes.
  • This wasn’t a third child born into their old family with their old wars.
    Allegra Goodman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • So, a decision such as this suddenly means that a new way has been found to kill children.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • My grandfather appeared in photographs of my mother as a child, but otherwise no one spoke of him.
    Megan Buskey, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2023
  • What better way to celebrate a Catholic child's faith than by gifting him or her their first Bible ever?
    Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The couple shares three children together: sons Corde and Cordell, and daughter Cori.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Two of the children recovered, but Dominici died at a hospital.
    Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The work's inspiration: memories riding subways as a child.
    Robin Soslow, Chron, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Kargbo, who emigrated with his mother from Gambia as a child, held a job boxing orders at Amazon and went to school.
    Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Atkinson, who held multiple jobs prior to giving birth to their daughter, had to quit working after being unable to find affordable child care.
    Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The teacher shared it with his students, one of whom was a child of a San Francisco Chronicle writer who then wrote of Herbert and her iconic phrase.
    Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The period of observing children for symptoms related to this exposure ends on Nov. 16, the release said.
    Aaron Valdez, The Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The TikTok star and comedian, who has naturally curly hair, says she was bullied as a child for looking different and spent years rebelling against what her hair wanted to do.
    Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023
  • However, the alleged mother of the three children, Bri Thomas, broke her silence on Instagram and said that not everything Tyler said on the show was true.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Your child just needs to be under the age of 13 to use it.
    Kerri Anne Renzulli, wsj.com, 24 Dec. 2023
  • At the top of 2022, Jeezy and Mae welcomed their first child.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2023
  • No children played in parks: The swings and slides were too hot to sit on.
    Emily Kask, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Imagine having a wife and child who have to go through the same thing.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The Carters have four children: three sons and one daughter.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2023
  • As a child, a plague swept through the city, and his older brother, Jordie, died.
    Town & Country, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Many of them have children of their own and are thriving.
    Alexis Waiss, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2024
  • There is no indication Quinn or their child was at the home at the time.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The two worked at the CIA for 28 years, raised two children and wrote books together.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
  • One big one: paying more money to sit next to their children on the plane.
    Anna Halkidis, Parents, 18 Oct. 2024
  • In 2022, Diddy announced the birth of his seventh child, Love, with Dana Tran.
    Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The fire resulted in their and their five children’s deaths.
    Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2024
  • While Harry and Edna rode back down to the Black side of town, the children were loaded into the trunk.
    Imani Perry, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • She is accused of doing the same to her fifth child, a boy born in November 2019.
    Gawon Bae, CNN, 22 June 2023

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