How to Use umbilical cord in a Sentence

umbilical cord

noun

• Each time, the baby’s legs were crossed or the umbilical cord was in the way.
  — Frances Stead Sellers, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2023
• In the blur, there was alarming talk of the umbilical cord.
  — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
• Well, the mother seal turned around and the umbilical cord was still there.
  — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• The March of Dimes refers to this as a single artery umbilical cord.
  — Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 18 July 2019
• The two doulas stayed on the phone with the couple to help with the afterbirth and cutting the umbilical cord.
  — Sara Smart, CNN, 28 Dec. 2022
• The new test showed the baby wasn’t taking in any blood through the umbilical cord.
  — Betsy McKay, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017
• The umbilical cord attached to Twin A, the girl they’d named Maia, had slipped out of the uterus and into the birth canal.
  — Eva Holland, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
• My son has passed away from a true knot in his umbilical cord.
  — refinery29.com, 31 July 2021
• Both were fine and healthy when EMS arrived to cut the umbilical cord.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• The father, David Knight, needed to know how to cut the umbilical cord.
  — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 13 Sep. 2017
• About a dozen people were in the bathroom when John cut the umbilical cord.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• Paramedics cut the umbilical cord and took the baby to the hospital.
  — Ashley May, USA TODAY, 3 May 2018
• Roberts was there when Williams was born and cut her umbilical cord.
  — Cathie Anderson, sacbee, 9 Mar. 2018
• The little boy, half buried in the dirt, was so fresh that his umbilical cord was still attached.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 22 May 2018
• The umbilical cord was clamped twice and cut away from the placenta.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• His umbilical cord was clamped with the kind of plastic twist-tie used to secure a garbage bag.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2016
• Once it’s all been expelled, wrap it in a towel and put it in a bowl near the mom, as it’s still attached to the umbilical cord.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2022
• Some bury a baby’s umbilical cord to affirm their ties to the land.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• Then there was the oozing stub of his umbilical cord, which turned grey, then blackish green and smelled like fish sauce and death.
  — Jacob Baynham, Esquire, 8 May 2014
• In that case, when the baby fell, its umbilical cord got tangled around a branch.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2020
• The antibodies were also found in the umbilical cord blood and breast milk of all women who were part of the study, the study found.
  — al, 18 Aug. 2021
• Indeed, in the US, the practice of storing umbilical cord blood is steadily on the rise.
  — Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2020
• It’s attached to the mom’s uterus and feeds oxygen and nutrients to the baby through the umbilical cord.
  — Ariel Hart, ajc, 10 Feb. 2022
• Their daughter emerged, the umbilical cord coiled twice around her neck.
  — Anndee Hochman, Philly.com, 6 June 2018
• The rocker jumped on a plane and made it in time for Sailor's birth, even cutting his grandson's umbilical cord.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 27 May 2024
• Owens called 911 and helped clamp the baby’s umbilical cord using a string.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
• But two things tend to happen when an umbilical cord is cut.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• Mori guided the baby girl into the world and into his arms, as the father cut the umbilical cord.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 25 Nov. 2020
• Isaacman, the mission commander, and Gillis will then open the hatch and float briefly out of the capsule, connected by umbilical cords that will supply them with oxygen.
  — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 10 Sep. 2024
• After more than two decades, authorities in Texas have made an arrest in the cold case death of a newborn baby girl who was found wrapped in a jacket along the roadside with her umbilical cord still attached.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024