How to Use day care in a Sentence

day care

noun

• She left work early to pick up her son from day care.
• 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
• In the first two months of the pandemic, day care centers cut 35% of their staffs.
  — Anneken Tappe, Clare Duffy and Tal Yellin, CNN, 17 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Kids drew the huelga (strike) flag at day care and walked the picket lines with their parents.
  — Alexei Koseff, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2021
• Fouziya Bawazir runs a 24-hour day care center in her home in Hayward.
  — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• Reassured, Leah left to pick up her sons – then ages 2 and 3 – from day care.
  — USA Today, 17 Dec. 2020
• Many home day care centers have already had to close their doors.
  — cleveland, 18 July 2023
• Not even a month in, however, the day care’s owner got Covid-19.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2021
• 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
• The latter isn’t great, given that a kid with a fever is supposed to stay home from school or day care.
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Brinkman's kids are still attending school and day care.
  — NBC News, 21 Dec. 2020
• Skip the fancy stroller, new parents want cash for down payments and day care.
  — Brianna Crane, Axios, 19 Oct. 2024
• Skip the fancy stroller — more new parents want cash for down payments and day care.
  — Brianna Crane, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
• Her daughter is 4 and has had a babysitter maybe four times in her life, outside of day care.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
• 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
• But the actual rhythm of a day at day care was of another world.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2024
• 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
• If there are times when a dog has to be alone for longer periods, the AKC suggests sending them to a doggy day care, hiring a dog walker or asking a neighbor to drop by.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
• The virus often spreads in spaces including prisons, cruise ships, day care centers, and college dorms where people are living in close proximity.
  — Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 30 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Feb 2025