How to Use child in a Sentence
child
noun- All of their children are grown now.
- She's pregnant with their first child.
- Men are such children sometimes.
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Your child just needs to be under the age of 13 to use it.
— Kerri Anne Renzulli, wsj.com, 24 Dec. 2023 -
At the top of 2022, Jeezy and Mae welcomed their first child.
— Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2023 -
Try to speak more of the concern – for your friend’s wife and child – than the shock.
— R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025 -
No children played in parks: The swings and slides were too hot to sit on.
— Emily Kask, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2023 -
Imagine having a wife and child who have to go through the same thing.
— Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023 -
The Carters have four children: three sons and one daughter.
— Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2023 -
When my child goes to school, do their teachers teach this?
— Renata Cló, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022 -
As a child, a plague swept through the city, and his older brother, Jordie, died.
— Town & Country, 18 Mar. 2023 -
Many of them have children of their own and are thriving.
— Alexis Waiss, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2024 -
Benitez, 72, was born in Cuba and came to the United States as a child.
— Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2023 -
The singer and only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley was 54.
— Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2023 -
But the long hours were taking a toll on his wife, Amy, and their five young children.
— Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2024 -
The children and [families] are in our heart [sic] and prayers.
— Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024 -
There is no indication Quinn or their child was at the home at the time.
— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024 -
The two worked at the CIA for 28 years, raised two children and wrote books together.
— Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024 -
One big one: paying more money to sit next to their children on the plane.
— Anna Halkidis, Parents, 18 Oct. 2024 -
In 2022, Diddy announced the birth of his seventh child, Love, with Dana Tran.
— Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023 -
The fire resulted in their and their five children’s deaths.
— Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2024 -
Their dream is to have a child and not everybody gets that blessing.
— Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2022 -
Manya, Golda, and his two younger children, Artek and Rivka, were all killed by the Nazis.
— Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025 -
Karina Smirnoff welcomed her first child, Theo Gabriel, in the spring of 2020.
— Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2022 -
While Harry and Edna rode back down to the Black side of town, the children were loaded into the trunk.
— Imani Perry, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023 -
She is accused of doing the same to her fifth child, a boy born in November 2019.
— Gawon Bae, CNN, 22 June 2023 -
He was released on bail and ordered not to work with children.
— City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023 -
Toys and sweet foods should be set out by Oct. 31 as it is said that child spirits arrive first.
— Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2022 -
In short, this it to be kept as far away from children as humanly possible.
— Alex Ritman, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025 -
She was obliged, as an enslaved woman in the antebellum South, to labor in his household for him, his wife and his children.
— Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2025
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