How to Use day care in a Sentence

day care

noun
Definition of day carenext
  • She left work early to pick up her son from day care.
  • His cousin, Asean, was born in the same month and went to the same day care center.
    — Ryn Jirenuwat, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The coronavirus forced Gaines to shut the day care, and her temp work dried up.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The day care is located at the end of a driveway off a cul-de-sac.
    — Rob Gillies, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
  • It has not yet been determined whether staff at the day care will be charged.
    — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • This time around Francona did it with a roster straight out of day care.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Most schools and day care centers have guidelines on when to keep a child at home.
    — Libby Richards, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The Police Department's goal is to open its day care center by the fall of 2024.
    — Dana Rieck The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (tns), arkansasonline.com, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Many home day care centers have already had to close their doors.
    — cleveland, 18 July 2023
  • Brazil has seen at least one past attack on a day care center, too.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Pattikakes', a day care in Tewksbury for two decades, has shut down.
    — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The day care had no record of the 1-year-old being dropped off, according to police.
    — NBC News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • David Bosquet drops his son off at day care before heading to work at Rapid7.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
  • An alarm woke her up, reminding her to pick up her child from day care.
    — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2024
  • My bestie Emma used to pick him up from day care on Mondays and Fridays and take him to the park for a few hours.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Now Olsen makes too much to qualify for that program, and day care costs $300 a week.
    — Zack Harold, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Both claimed to be unaware of the drugs found at the day care, according to the federal complaint.
    — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Toma’s day care, for instance, serves children as young as 7 months.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Both claim to have been unaware of the drugs found at the day care, according to the federal complaint.
    — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • That includes their day-to-day care as well as end-of-life decisions.
    — Dan Carson, Chron, 5 Aug. 2022
  • An hour before the flood, Yin was watching Zeni play at the day care via webcam.
    — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Co-owner Jason Starnes worked at the former day care for about four years.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The day care had a capacity of eight children and could take care of up to four infants at a time.
    — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Five moms and five babies call this home, with day care provided while the young moms — ages 12 to 18 — are at school or work.
    — Jacinda Palomo, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2023
  • However, the day care worker fought back, wrestling the knife from Mendoza's grip.
    — Beth Warren, USA TODAY, 6 July 2024
  • Local car prices, day care center costs and even food bills may respond to the surge in demand.
    — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The day care center stopped serving kids breakfast at 8:45 a.m.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 2 July 2022
  • Also, some families choose to pay more to be closer to school or day care.
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • First, children are in close contact with one another at school and day care.
    — Faye Chiu, CNN, 23 Sep. 2024
  • To return to school or day care, the child should be fever-free for at least 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medications.
    — Libby Richards, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024

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