How to Use cleft palate in a Sentence

cleft palate

noun

• Her third child was born with a cleft palate and bone age delay.
  — Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic, 17 Jan. 2023
• Clefts have likely been around for a long time; just look at King Tut, who suffered from a partial cleft palate.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2021
• About half of all living bat species have cleft palates—a feature that may be tied to bat echolocation.
  — Riley Black, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2023
• Others had eye problems, ear problems, a cleft palate, no toes.
  — Katie Thomas, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2020
• Or the dentist who arranged to fix a 9-year-old girl's cleft palate and straightened her teeth with orthodontic work.
  — Karina Bland, azcentral, 23 Nov. 2019
• Reuters/Kham Ryan Le Blanc got his first dose of opioids at three months old, after surgery for a unilateral cleft palate.
  — Doug Johnson, Quartz, 3 Nov. 2019
• MacKenzie was born in Hilton, New York, with a cleft palate and spent the first year of her life being fed through a tube and battling several bouts of pneumonia.
  — Marika Gerken, CNN, 24 Oct. 2020
• The boy pharaoh Tutankhamen, who died around 1324 BC, suffered from a host of conditions including a club foot and cleft palate, but malaria was likely what killed him.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
• So are cleft lips, sometimes accompanied by cleft palate.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2021
• One in 700 babies are born with either (or both) a cleft lip and cleft palate, which occurs when the lip or mouth doesn’t properly fuse during early pregnancy.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2021
• Santa Cristina García, 20, migrated to pay for her younger sister’s cleft palate surgery.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
• Exposure to the poison can cause many diseases, from 20 forms of cancer to Type 2 diabetes and serious birth defects like cleft palates and club feet.
  — Steven V. Roberts, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
• Valproic acid also increased the risk of seven other birth defects, including cleft palate and four types of heart defects.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 12 June 2019
• While repairing my cleft palate, the surgeon had mistakenly sewn closed my nasal passages.
  — Kavita Das, Longreads, 29 Jan. 2018
• The hospital came to Indianapolis in 1869, and was one of the first in the country to treat a variety of congenital deformities like cleft palate, club foot and more.
  — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2022
• The two were quick to jump into supporting a joint cause, lending their star power to the #Search4Smiles campaign to benefit the nonprofit Smile Train, which provides free cleft palate surgeries to those in need.
  — Jolene Latimer, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2023
• Other Chinese are more willing to adopt children with treatable conditions like cleft palates.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2020
• During her time there, the model mom visited the homes of patients recovering from cleft palate or cleft lip procedures.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• Jacquetta was born with birth defects that prevented her from breathing, swallowing, or crying on her own, as well as a cleft palate and lip and deformities to one of her eyes and one hand.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 16 Nov. 2022
• Results here suggested a link between the two antibiotics and several birth defects, such as anopthamalia (the absence of one or both eyes), a condition that affects blood flow through the heart, and cleft lip with cleft palate.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 18 Jan. 2018
• Bright Beginnings had Tyesha assessed and determined the cleft palate affected her speech.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
• The nuns and nurses face a variety of challenging issues such as interracial adoption, cleft palate and sickle cell.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2019
• Initial exams indicate the cub suffered from severe birth defects, including a cleft palate, according to the zoo.
  — David Caraccio, sacbee, 15 May 2018
• But [the child] also had spina bifida, scoliosis, a cleft palate that exposed her brain through her eye sockets, her brain had never developed past 8 weeks, and there was fluid in her brain.
  — Danielle Corcione, Teen Vogue, 22 Jan. 2018
• Cleft lip and cleft palate result when facial structures that are developing in an unborn baby don’t close completely.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 5 Apr. 2020
• The symptoms and effects, which can include heart defects, learning disabilities, hearing loss and cleft palate, involve different parts of the body and vary in severity.
  — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2019
• Yet, past studies have linked fevers to a variety of birth defects, including cleft lip or cleft palate, certain types of heart defects, and neural tube defects commonly called spina bifida.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 10 Oct. 2017
• The campaign also donates up to $1 million to Operation Smile, an organization that provides safe surgeries for children with cleft lip and cleft palate.
  — Nisa Khan, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2020
• The mother of five, 48, recently traveled to Lima, Peru in support of Smile Train, a nonprofit organization that provides cleft palate treatments for children across the globe.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• Seymour has been ostracized for his behavioral tics, Omeir for his cleft palate, Anna for her rebelliousness, and Konstance for her curiosity.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 3 Sep 2024