How to Use birth in a Sentence

birth

1 of 3 noun
  • He was present at the birth of his daughter.
  • We are witnessing the birth of a new era.
  • Please indicate your date of birth.
  • The hospital reported an increase in premature births.
  • The perfect place, in fact, to give birth to the perfect soul food.
    Jonathan Thompson, Travel + Leisure, 21 Jan. 2024
  • This year marks the 100th anniversary of Phillips' birth.
    Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The singer announced the birth of their first child in January.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Now is not the time to tell him that his aunt is really his birth mom.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Lemon sharks, bull sharks, mako sharks and blue sharks are among those that give birth to live young.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
  • That was really the birth of the idea of starting the company.
    Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2023
  • His research tracked a group of 474 babies from birth to about age 7.
    Bill Strickland, Parents, 9 Aug. 2023
  • This gave birth to a podcast, and in 2017, a publishing house.
    Jon Niccum, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The couple’s 6-month-old son, their first boy after the birth of five daughters, was asleep in a stroller.
    Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Not even during Covid, not even after the day after the, the wife and this couple gave birth.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • The Board Book Club, aimed at babies from birth to age 3, contains three board books.
    Julia Pelly, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The latter is a dentist, has a three-year-old son and is about to give birth to her second child.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2024
  • There, in a manger — a feed trough for animals — Mary gives birth to the child who the faithful believe is the son of God.
    Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
  • There are also the costs of giving birth in Abuja that Aliyu didn't have back home.
    Adie Vanessa Offiong, CNN, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Anyway, the joy of Disneyland soon gives way to Bree screaming at the top of her lungs about to give birth.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 24 June 2023
  • The National Park Service owns the birth home of the late civil rights leader.
    Jolie Lash, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • That winter, the woman gave birth to a second child, and Aetna did it again.
    Maya Miller, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Dunning took to Twitter to announce the birth of his son, Mack, on Friday night.
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 27 May 2023
  • The state did expand Medicaid for new moms to a whole year after birth in June.
    Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 17 July 2023
  • And the idea of people giving birth to themselves, as happened at the end of Men, is equally far-fetched.
    David Gilbert, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Adia, a 16-year-old Grevy’s zebra, gave birth to her fifth offspring, a female foal, on Aug. 21.
    Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • In this situation, Licho gave birth to a boy named Berebe—a source of some joy.
    Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • Arthur Janis is a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, for whom hair is sacred from the moment of birth.
    Joe Kottke, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Bernard told me of a patient whose first child had a genetic anomaly and died less than a year after birth.
    Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The bill proposed to limit high school athletes to playing on teams that match the gender they were assigned at birth.
    Wcco Staff, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The other day my mother brought up the idea of bringing her dog with her into the delivery room while my wife gives birth.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Mar. 2024
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birth

2 of 3 verb
  • To grow and birth children(I could go on and on about this one!).
    Korin Miller, Health.com, 17 June 2021
  • Ten years is a good amount of time to birth something into the world.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
  • In its wake, the black hole left behind a trail of young, hot blue stars birthed from gas.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
  • This is the only place the whales are known to birth and feed their young, scientists say.
    courant.com, 20 Dec. 2021
  • In the Catholicism of my youth, a woman’s only role was to birth and raise more Catholics.
    Clare Egan, Longreads, 13 Feb. 2024
  • So far, the startup’s care teams have helped birth 1,500 babies.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Black women had to birth the children of white men who raped them.
    Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Reasonably Shady was Robyn’s idea, and it kind of was birthed out of the pandemic.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 7 Nov. 2023
  • For example, the eastern garter snake births a litter of 10 to 40 snakes.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Alpha did not beget Delta, which did not birth Omicron.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 13 May 2022
  • San Francisco birthed the Beatniks and the Summer of Love.
    Bob Fisher, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • All that alone time, for some, can birth a bought of creativity.
    Pat McDonogh, The Courier-Journal, 12 May 2022
  • Kids ages birth through grade five can pick up a game board at their library to begin playing.
    Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 23 May 2022
  • If your mama birthed you in the state that gave the world the Noo Joisey Turnpike, your Bruce fandom is non-negotiable.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The English musician and ideas man helped birth glam and art rock as a member of Roxy Music.
    David Marchese David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2022
  • With Roxi and Rebel safely birthed and thriving, one question many had was whether the girls were twins or siblings.
    Emily Nadal, Parents, 17 Jan. 2024
  • That desire to lessen the pain of others is also what birthed Wondermind.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Kaiwi joins five siblings who were also birthed by a 12-year-old monk seal named RK96.
    Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Part of the rationale for large families in the South during the era of crop labor was to birth their labor force.
    Marc Myers, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Bledel and Kartheiser welcomed their first child in fall 2015 but kept the pregnancy and birth a secret.
    Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Bledel and Kartheiser welcomed their first child in fall 2015, but kept the pregnancy and birth a secret, too.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The couple left their Costa Mesa home on Feb. 13 to travel to Kyiv for the baby’s birth the following day.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Weir helped birth the new world, watched its ruination, and spent the autumn of his life rebuilding it.
    Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Many of the animals birthed there bring benefits to habitats far away.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • As the bubble expands, regions of dense, cold gas that can birth stars collect on its surface.
    Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The result is a melding of minds that has birthed one of Dubai’s most exciting underground spots.
    Sophie Prideaux, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2023
  • At 20, my grandmother walked herself through the snow to birth her first children, twins, on Christmas Day.
    Richard Morgan, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • If something goes wrong and if my baby's in danger, you guys are going to birth my baby.
    Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Females birth about six litters of eight young on average per year.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The woman inside birthed her baby into her husband’s hands.
    Lori Vogt Rosone, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
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birth

3 of 3 adjective
  • For a friend who loves wine, gift them this wine glass for their first post-birth drink.
    Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 4 Aug. 2022
  • What troubles me most about the ruling party of Texas — and the voters who keep them in power — is their adherence to being pro-birth but not so much pro-life.
    Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Luckily, Martine was coming the next morning for the final pre-birth checkup.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • But Jenkins says the judge at a pre-birth hearing was hesitant about setting a precedent by ruling that all three men's names could be on the birth certificate.
    Faith Karimi, CNN, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Animals that skip their pre-birth workouts tend to emerge with bones and muscles that are weak and underdeveloped.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2021
  • That’s why the post-birth horror story of tennis icon Serena Williams resonated so deeply among Black women.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Starbucks, for instance, last year sweetened the deal for its store employees, offering six weeks paid leave for all parents, not just birth mothers.
    Michelle Cheng, Quartz at Work, 10 June 2019
  • She was re-admitted to the hospital on Saturday due to post-birth complications.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 16 Oct. 2021
  • If passed, a doctor would need to provide post-birth care for the infant, call for assistance from an emergency medical services provider and arrange for a transfer to a hospital.
    Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2021
  • And those post-birth emotions can impact spouses and partners as well: Around 26% of spouses experience some sort of depression after the baby’s arrival.
    Ebony Williams, ajc, 12 May 2022
  • In April, the singer/actress showcased her first postpartum workout on Instagram after being granted the all-clear to start exercising again post-birth.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 21 July 2021
  • Robyn has an emotional moment with Gizelle about her lack of motivation; Ashley joins the ladies for a post-birth getaway, bringing both some drama and her breast pump; Candiace hosts a whiskey tasting.
    Anying Guo, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2021
  • However, some states, like Wisconsin and New York, do have provisions that can result in fathers paying for pre-birth expenses.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The idea that women cannot have any arena of choice — [from pregnancy to labor and delivery to post-birth] — is exclusively and almost always detrimental to women.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Dec. 2021
  • For babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome, enduring withdrawal from pre-birth drugs in the mother's system, cuddling is part of the medical care.
    Emily Woodruff, NOLA.com, 2 Jan. 2021
  • Over 75 couples in Michigan who are in our exact same situation [received] pre-birth orders, which basically gives them legal rights to the baby before they're even born.
    Rachel Burchfield, PEOPLE.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The babies' early arrival meant the Myers did not complete Michigan's requisite pre-birth order process in time, forcing them, because of the state's restrictive laws around surrogacy, to fight in court to legally be the twins' parents.
    Rachel Burchfield, PEOPLE.com, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Another program, Ramp Back, gives new parents the flexibility to work partial work hours for eight consecutive weeks post-birth or adoption.
    Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The prospect of studying orangutans in Borneo was tantalizing to Knott, especially since orangutans have the longest inter-birth interval—the time between pregnancies—of any mammal.
    Wudan Yan, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Nebraska case law prohibits second-parent adoption by an unmarried non-birth parent, according to the lawsuit.
    NBC News, 6 Oct. 2021
  • As Wishnowsky, 29, recounted his life-changing weekend Thursday, he was asked if Shanahan exaggerated his pre-birth nerves for effect.
    Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Non-essential retail reopened in June, followed by pubs and restaurants in July, but tight restrictions have remained in place limiting access to maternity services and post-birth visits by new fathers.
    The Economist, 17 Oct. 2020
  • But a few states, including Wisconsin and New York, have provisions that can result in fathers being financially responsible for pre-birth expenses.
    NBC News, 6 Apr. 2021
  • These fees typically cover a birth mother’s medical expenses, legal representation for adoptive and birth parents, court fees, social workers and more.
    David Dodge, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • For a friend who loves wine, gift them this wine glass for their first post-birth drink.
    Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 4 Aug. 2022
  • What troubles me most about the ruling party of Texas — and the voters who keep them in power — is their adherence to being pro-birth but not so much pro-life.
    Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Luckily, Martine was coming the next morning for the final pre-birth checkup.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • But Jenkins says the judge at a pre-birth hearing was hesitant about setting a precedent by ruling that all three men's names could be on the birth certificate.
    Faith Karimi, CNN, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Animals that skip their pre-birth workouts tend to emerge with bones and muscles that are weak and underdeveloped.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2021
  • That’s why the post-birth horror story of tennis icon Serena Williams resonated so deeply among Black women.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2021

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