How to Use child in a Sentence

child

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  • All of their children are grown now.
  • She's pregnant with their first child.
  • Men are such children sometimes.
  • But the long hours were taking a toll on his wife, Amy, and their five young children.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Nodes branch off each other, with parent nodes affecting their children.
    — PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • One of the most moving scenes is their denial of this contract to their own children.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
  • And [child’s name] is even luckier to have you for their mother.
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The father of the three children allegedly found his children in the basement.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • My son and his fiancée have a 3-year-old child together.
    — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
  • So is just saying so — and checking that the children write their thank-you letters.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The same month, three people, including a 5-year-old child, were killed in a shooting.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
  • But after leaving as a child, she's struggled to move back.
    — The Courier-Journal, 20 Mar. 2023
  • There were five soldiers in one vehicle and a soldier with his spouse and child in the other.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2023

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