How to Use surrogate mother in a Sentence

surrogate mother

noun

• The surrogate mother and the twins all died a day away from a full-term, scheduled C-section.
  — Nr Interview, National Review, 9 Dec. 2017
• In fact, Dani saves Grace as a child and becomes her surrogate mother.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 1 Nov. 2019
• The process worked, a surrogate mother was found and then on June 28, their son Mack was born -- arriving at a healthy 7 pounds, 7 ounces.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
• The cubs, one male and one female, were born on Wednesday at the Ohio zoo to their surrogate mother Izzy, a 3-year-old cheetah and first-time mom.
  — CBS News, 25 Feb. 2020
• The team then transplanted the egg back inside the horse, which acted as a surrogate mother.
  — Jonathan Wosen San Diego Union-Tribune, Star Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020
• Ania, 26, who has two children of her own, is pregnant as a surrogate mother for the second time.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2022
• This will be the Portuguese superstar's first child not to be born by a surrogate mother.
  — SI.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• In 2019, the Boeckmanns, who’ve been married nearly a decade, had had a daughter by a surrogate mother in Ukraine.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
• She and Yuri slept in the same bed at the home of a Russian emigre who sometimes served as a surrogate mother and sometimes threatened to evict them.
  — Michael Mewshaw, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• Debbie was the one, though, who became like a surrogate mother.
  — Sarah Viren, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Instead, the couple turned to a surrogate mother to conceive their second child, a son who is now 19.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
• Long played her mother in the film—and instantly became something of a surrogate mother to the young actress on her first big job.
  — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 16 Mar. 2022
• The answer was to turn some of the cows into surrogate mothers for others looking to improve the genetics of their herds.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 13 Mar. 2018
• News of the raid comes four months after a surrogate mother gave birth in China to a boy whose parents had died four years earlier in a car crash.
  — Mike Ives, New York Times, 25 June 2018
• Coffey and his husband welcomed to the world their son Tūtānekai Smith-Coffey, born via surrogate mother, last month.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2019
• Now, that surrogate mother is trapped in a maternity ward in a city in Russia’s crosshairs.
  — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2022
• Moira has taken care of Nichole and been Nichole's surrogate mother for much longer than June has been in Nichole's life.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 May 2021
• Of these surrogate mother monkeys, 12 became pregnant, and 6 gave birth to live young.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• The cloned Maya is now living with her beagle surrogate mother, and will later be housed in Harbin Polarland, open to the public.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
• Each boy was conceived with donor eggs and the sperm from a different father, but born by the same surrogate mother in September 2016.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 24 Jan. 2018
• In many ways the case was most interesting for what CFC was not charged for: arranging the services of surrogate mothers.
  — Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
• Fu had a child last year with the help of a surrogate mother in the US, according to one unnamed source cited in the FT report, which did not reveal the identity of the father.
  — Yong Xiong, CNN, 27 Sep. 2023
• Bernice Sadie Brown, who has experienced a lifetime of love and loss, is a surrogate mother for Frankie.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2019
• The egg will then contain an exact copy of the donor’s genome, and if it is implanted into a surrogate mother, the eventual offspring will be a clone.
  — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2018
• For now, the SeaLife Center staffers are adjusting to life as the surrogate mothers for seven sea otters.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 7 May 2016
• Two cheetah cubs have been born via in vitro fertilization to a surrogate mother for the first time ever at the Columbus Zoo.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2020
• First, Kurt needs at least another year with his surrogate mother.
  — Jonathan Wosen San Diego Union-Tribune, Star Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020
• Ermengarde, the school dunce, Lottie, the school crybaby, and Becky, the scullery maid, quickly find a defender, surrogate mother, and friend in Sara.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 13 Mar. 2022
• Becky, meanwhile, is applying to be a surrogate mother for a well-to-do woman -- played by Sarah Chalke, who took over for Goranson as Becky in the show's original run.
  — The New York Times, cleveland.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• This means that even a mouse-size marsupial could serve as a surrogate mother for a much larger adult animal like the thylacine, at least in the early stages.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024