How to Use maternal in a Sentence

maternal

adjective

• Doctors are concerned about the effects of the drug on maternal health.
• The city has some of the highest rates of Black maternal and fetal death in the country.
  — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2024
• The name comes from her maternal clan, the Bear Clan, and the arrow on the firm's logo honors her dad's warrior sign.
  — The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
• There is this primal, maternal, innate need to save him and to save them.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
• Over half the state counties are defined as a maternal care desert.
  — Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 20 May 2024
• The maternal mortality rate is among the highest in the world.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
• This is because maternal age is one of the key risk factors for Down syndrome.
  — Robin Elise Weiss, Phd, Parents, 30 July 2024
• My maternal grandmother gave me the courage to go after my dreams.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
• The twins’ maternal grandmother also died in the airstrike.
  — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 14 Aug. 2024
• Georgia is one of the states with the highest rates of maternal mortality.
  — Caitlin Huey-Burns, CBS News, 17 June 2023
• The prospects of a state committee that was formed to study maternal mortality are also up in the air.
  — Brittany Shammas and Marisa Iati, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
• Three out of four bases in primary care deserts are also in a mental health care desert, a maternal care desert, or both.
  — Brent Jones, NPR, 17 June 2024
• Then, many new parents do not have nursing and maternal care visits or paid parental leave.
  — Steven Berkowitz, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2023
• In his own speech, Oyelowo again touched on Winfrey's maternal influence in his life.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2023
• In the meantime, Squires sees the benefit of taking advantage of the maternal vaccine for RSV.
  — Alice Park, Time, 21 Aug. 2023
• And my role in the film also carries a very maternal storyline.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2022
• My mother and deceased maternal grandmother did not have the chance to explore the world when their children were young.
  — Essence, 26 Jan. 2024
• The image makes for a neat — perhaps too neat — metaphor for the tentacular reach of memories passed down the maternal line.
  — Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
• For maternal care, the department needs more funds to stand up a new at-home nursing program for mothers.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 Jan. 2023
• Health care, too, was seen in terms of prescription costs, though the Black maternal health crisis was a major issue.
  — Natasha Pearlman, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2024
• His grandfather was a watchmaker, and his two maternal grand-uncles had built cars and even an airplane in the 1920s.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 30 July 2023
• Likewise, the maternal mortality rate has more than doubled in the last 20 years.
  — Natasha Pearlman, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2024
• Keough portrays the family’s maternal figure, and Christophe Zajac-Denek plays the youngest sasquatch.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2024
• Sweet’s family sent her to live with her maternal aunts and uncle in the capital city.
  — Denise Powell, ELLE, 21 Oct. 2022
• Through the lens of this modern-day witch hunt, the film examines the battle between medicine and midwifery and its impact on maternal child health.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 23 Sep. 2022
• In the end, his test came back negative, so it’s believed that the mutation came from Dedmon’s maternal side.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 10 Oct. 2023
• Your state had one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country according to the CDC, up until about 2021.
  — CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
• On the next day, Dunning’s maternal grandfather passed away in South Korea.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
• In this polarizing election climate, watch for the four biases that Harris will most likely face as the first woman of color to run for president in the U.S.: the tightrope, maternal wall, prove it again and tug of war biases.
  — Julie Kratz, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
• Amid the deluge of evidence of the harm, including research suggesting Texas’ legislation has increased infant and maternal deaths, some of the ban’s most prominent supporters have muted their public enthusiasm for it.
  — Cassandra Jaramillo and Kavitha Surana, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024