How to Use stillborn in a Sentence

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• Devin and wife Michelle’s third child, Mia, was stillborn.
  — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• The Mayo staff prepared Sam and Megan for the fact their baby could be stillborn.
  — Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
• Rachel Foran’s child, Eoin Francis, was stillborn at 41 weeks and two days.
  — Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
• About 7,400 babies were stillborn or died within the first week of life.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2018
• Not long into my doula work, my client and best friend gave birth to her stillborn daughter.
  — al.com, 2 July 2019
• Dubbed Ata, the skeleton belong to a girl who was stillborn or died just after birth.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2018
• In 1973, Ice-Ter gave birth to a pair of cubs, but one was stillborn and the second died a week later from pneumonia.
  — Grant Butler, OregonLive.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• And if the baby is stillborn there is no homicide involved.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
• Ellen died giving birth to the couple’s fourth child, Robert Fraser, who was stillborn.
  — Emma Dibdin, ELLE, 16 June 2023
• Of the 51 total births at the sanctuary, 16 baby macaques died or were stillborn.
  — National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2017
• Some were stillborn, and some had died shortly after birth.
  — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2021
• Richardson’s attorneys have said the baby was stillborn and that the then-teen was sad and frightened.
  — Dan Sewell, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2019
• The subject of stillborn babies takes people out of their comfort zone.
  — Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 8 Dec. 2019
• No charges were filed in the latter case as the woman told investigators the girl was stillborn.
  — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 24 Mar. 2024
• Hawaii’s creation myth says that two gods had a stillborn baby, who was buried and grew into a kalo, or taro, plant.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2023
• Paramedics carry stillborn baby to ambulance 0:16 The first-time mother was nude and too weak to stand.
  — Amy Brittain, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• The baby was stillborn, and Ms. Halappanavar died a few days later.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2018
• Nearly 3 million newborns die in the first month of life and 2.6 million newborns are stillborn each year.
  — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2017
• Then tragedy struck in late 2015 when Jobe’s sister, at nearly eight months pregnant, gave birth to a stillborn baby.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2017
• Even the ordinary handling of a stillborn baby can allow air to enter the lungs.
  — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2023
• Over the years, about two dozen polar bears have lived or been born at Portland's zoo (though six were cubs who were stillborn, or died within a few days of their birth).
  — Grant Butler, OregonLive.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• Her brother and heir to both of their parents' thrones, Juan, died of an illness in the fall of 1497, and though his wife, Margaret of Austria, was pregnant at the time, the child was stillborn.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 10 June 2019
• In 2017, Morgan not only lost her husband but also had a child who was stillborn.
  — Kaitlyn Schwers, kansascity, 13 Feb. 2018
• Their care team explained she might be stillborn, and if she was born alive, she would be given medicine for the pain caused by her failing heart, and could live for a few days at the most.
  — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
• Around two in five sets of craniopagus twins are stillborn or die during labor, while a third more do not survive the first 24 hours.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 16 July 2019
• The little boy, who weighed a bit more than two pounds according to the autopsy report, was stillborn.
  — al, 1 Sep. 2022
• Sheila Smith, an 84-year-old great-grandmother, and a stillborn baby named Logan were among those killed.
  — Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 13 June 2018
• In 2010, Harris delivered twins, a boy named Kodjo, who was stillborn, and a girl named Zindzi, who died a few days later.
  — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 27 Dec. 2022
• Black Americans in general have a lower life expectancy than white Americans, and Black babies are more likely to be stillborn or die in infancy.
  — Anna North, Vox, 1 July 2024
• Six years ago, a Latinx Californian woman named Adora Perez was charged with murder and sentenced to 11 years in prison for delivering a stillborn baby who had methamphetamine in its system at birth.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 25 June 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024