How to Use womb in a Sentence

womb

noun
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  • Not just the nine months in the womb, but all the rest of the years.
    — Beverly Beckham, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The pups were exposed to wild bird scent right out of the womb.
    — Steve Meyer | Alaska Outdoors, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • To my wife and to my daughter, who was still in the womb.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2022
  • And Bruce Banner didn't Hulk-smash his way out of the womb.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 29 June 2021
  • The First Star announces that all humankind was born out of the womb of Africa.
    — Essence, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The short answer is yes: Babies can and do hiccup in the womb.
    — Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Alexander played a video that showed a womb with a fetus.
    — Summer Linstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • No matter if that life is in the womb, or that life is in foster care.
    — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Then their daughters, who had been exposed in the womb.
    — Rosanna Xia, Star Tribune, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Science has revealed more and more of what's going on in the womb.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 26 June 2022
  • After six months or so in the womb of the cave, Flamini succumbed to its rhythms.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
  • That’s when the fetus gets entangled in the womb and blood flow is cut off.
    — J.l. Kirven, The Indianapolis Star, 27 May 2021
  • The primary job of hCG is to tell the body that there's life growing in the womb and that the body needs to build a nest for it.
    — Lambeth Hochwald, Parents, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The notion that embryos can wriggle around in the womb or egg isn’t new.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Breech: The fetus's buttocks or feet are toward the opening of the womb.
    — Brandi Jones, Verywell Health, 5 Aug. 2024
  • James Leroy was born in August 1985; his twin died in the womb when Hall was five months pregnant.
    — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
  • This country, this globe, was built from a woman’s womb.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 27 June 2022
  • When killing a baby in the womb is not wrong, everything is wrong.
    — Diana García, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Between these are neurons that form somewhere right in the middle of growth in the womb.
    — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Twin 12-day-old babies, in the first TV credits of their (very young) lives, played Ellie fresh out of the womb.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The embryos are cloned and transferred to the womb of a female pig so that her offspring end up with the edits.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The woman was 19 weeks pregnant, the fetus too young to survive outside the womb.
    — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The insult of being exposed to alcohol and who-knows-what-else in the womb, sure.
    — Jennifer Brookland, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2024
  • The roughly golf ball-sized tumor grew in the womb, engulfing much of the right hemisphere of his brain.
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2022
  • On the day of his birth, his mom was winding thread on the floor and Gemaly was unwinding rapidly out of her womb.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2022
  • Trump said Biden and Democrats are willing to rip babies out of the womb in the final days of pregnancy.
    — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2024
  • To keep a baby that will not be able to live outside the womb or has no heart beat should not be forced to carry for 9 months.
    — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The coronavirus is not known to be transmitted in breast milk or from the mother to a fetus in the womb.
    — Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2021
  • At the same time, in Europe, women by the thousands had given birth to children severely injured while in the womb.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Aniston, who has had her womb more publicly scrutinized than possibly any other person in Hollywood, had a thing or two to say to that.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 25 July 2024

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