How to Use natal in a Sentence

natal

adjective

• The salmon are born in rivers, swim to the Atlantic and return to their natal river to spawn.
  — Washington Post, 18 June 2017
• The newborn was taken to the Danbury neo-natal unit for care.
  — Bill Leukhardt, courant.com, 14 July 2017
• His blond, fuzzy natal pelage has given way to the lush, chocolate brown coat of an adult.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 24 Mar. 2018
• The fish are born in freshwater streams, head to sea for one or more years and return to their natal streams to spawn.
  — Washington Post, 29 May 2018
• Michael Webb and Tan met in her natal city of Nanning, which sits on the border with Vietnam.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2021
• The midheaven is also the cusp of the 10th House of Social Status of the natal chart and can tell you a lot about your public life.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 4 Apr. 2021
• There are many ways to assess the impact of a pro-natal policy such as the CSOK program.
  — Lyman R. Stone, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• Though wild salmon are known for their homing instincts, not all return to their natal streams.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• Though wild salmon are known for their homing instincts, not all return to their natal streams.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
• Each spring, as the dogwoods begin to bloom, salmon leave the deep-blue pastures of the North Pacific and return to their natal streams to spawn and die.
  — Corey Arnold, National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2019
• Speaking of this as a season of birth, the premiere is almost natal in its treatment of the culinary canal through which Carmy has emerged.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
• He was rushed from the clinic where he was born to the neo-natal intensive care unit in a children’s hospital across town.
  — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
• An anadromous fish, it is born in fresh water, spends its adulthood in salt water and returns to its natal rivers to spawn.
  — Andrew S. Lewis, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• The sojourn puts him hundreds of miles away from the Oregon state line and his natal territory.
  — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2021
• Twenty-four common tern chicks were flying around their natal homes, with one more chick almost ready to fly.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2021
• My Vedic astrologer told me our natal charts are very similar.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2018
• The oldest, largest female is the typically the leader, and females stay with their natal herd their whole lives.
  — National Geographic, 12 May 2018
• Bolivia long tried to convince women about the need to get pre-natal care at health clinics and give birth at hospitals.
  — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2017
• According to Brigman, a mother-to-be can start with a doula as early or as late in the pre- or post-natal journey as desired.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2019
• The first consists of hundreds of Atlantic salmon, returning to their natal river to spawn after a year, or sometimes longer, spent in the ocean.
  — Monte Burke, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2017
• In the time before my wife's first pre-natal scan, my mind raced full circle: Would my daughter have a disability?
  — Robert Hoge, Good Housekeeping, 12 Sep. 2016
• Jewel has her natal sun, moon and Mercury in the versatile, intelligent sign of the twins.
  — Holiday Mathis, Arkansas Online, 23 May 2021
• But the number of salmon making the arduous journey to the Pacific Ocean and back to their natal streams has declined steeply in recent decades.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2019
• The figure, which amounts to 2.4 million deaths a decade, does not include pre-natal mortality rates.
  — Steve George, CNN, 15 May 2018
• Maren Morris not the only famous mom fed up with post-natal diet culture.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 5 Apr. 2021
• Was a memo distributed at pre-natal yoga classes across the country?
  — Kaitlin Menza, Redbook, 6 Feb. 2017
• This being a Shape interview, Kaling talked about her pre- and post-natal workout routines.
  — refinery29.com, 16 May 2018
• Some of Sediq's earliest memories are of escaping from his natal home as the Taliban scorched the farmland around it in the Shomali Plain.
  — Noah Coburn and Sediq Seddiqi, CNN, 8 July 2021
• Myth #5: Your natal chart stays the same, meaning you are hopelessly doomed to repeat everything.
  — Emily Simone, Allure, 20 May 2022
• Fans can expect to see Batiste donning pearls, crystals, or other luxurious touches–Holmes reckons that this may happen considering the Neptune transit will be conjunct with his natal moon.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 1 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024