How to Use day care in a Sentence

day care

noun
  • She left work early to pick up her son from day care.
  • The state still requires masks in schools and day care facilities.
    Jason Hanna, CNN, 11 June 2021
  • Not even a month in, however, the day care’s owner got Covid-19.
    New York Times, 9 May 2021
  • Most applicants came from jobs in food service, restaurants, temporary help and day care.
    Brandon Lingle, San Antonio Express-News, 18 June 2021
  • Rieger, like most moms in Germany, works part time, sending her kid to day care until 3:30 in the afternoon.
    Rachel M. Cohen, Vox, 30 Oct. 2024
  • But her priorities began to change in the late 2000s, when Marr sent her oldest child off to day care.
    Megan Molteni, Wired, 13 May 2021
  • But Teplitskiy knows parents who pulled their children out of day care last year who will have to go on waiting lists to re-enroll or pay more to make sure their children are safe.
    Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 11 May 2021
  • That will allow schools and day care centers to reopen, which will enable more parents to work, while supplemental federal aid for the jobless ends.
    Time, 17 June 2021
  • And a task force led by two cabinet ministers is ensuring that schools and day care centers have enough of these rapid antigen tests to administer to children at least twice a week.
    New York Times, 9 June 2021
  • The tech company provides day care services and has an employee resource group voluntarily formed by employees.
    Fortune, 2 June 2021
  • More than half of Arlington’s public schools and day care facilities are within a half-mile of active gas production, according to the report.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 17 June 2021
  • To them, such measures do little to assuage their anxiety over the rising cost of education and of supporting aging parents, made worse by the lack of day care and the pervasive culture of long work hours.
    New York Times, 31 May 2021
  • His cousin, Asean, was born in the same month and went to the same day care center.
    Ryn Jirenuwat, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The coronavirus forced Gaines to shut the day care, and her temp work dried up.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The day care is located at the end of a driveway off a cul-de-sac.
    Rob Gillies, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
  • It has not yet been determined whether staff at the day care will be charged.
    Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • This time around Francona did it with a roster straight out of day care.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Most schools and day care centers have guidelines on when to keep a child at home.
    Libby Richards, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The Police Department's goal is to open its day care center by the fall of 2024.
    Dana Rieck The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (tns), arkansasonline.com, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Many home day care centers have already had to close their doors.
    cleveland, 18 July 2023
  • Brazil has seen at least one past attack on a day care center, too.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Pattikakes', a day care in Tewksbury for two decades, has shut down.
    Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The day care had no record of the 1-year-old being dropped off, according to police.
    NBC News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • David Bosquet drops his son off at day care before heading to work at Rapid7.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
  • An alarm woke her up, reminding her to pick up her child from day care.
    Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2024
  • My bestie Emma used to pick him up from day care on Mondays and Fridays and take him to the park for a few hours.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Skip the fancy stroller, new parents want cash for down payments and day care.
    Brianna Crane, Axios, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Now Olsen makes too much to qualify for that program, and day care costs $300 a week.
    Zack Harold, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Both claimed to be unaware of the drugs found at the day care, according to the federal complaint.
    Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Toma’s day care, for instance, serves children as young as 7 months.
    Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022

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