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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024