How to Use birth certificate in a Sentence
birth certificate
noun-
My birth certificate doesn’t have a name on the spot for the father . . .
— Noah Schaffer, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2022 -
The boy did not live long enough to be given a birth certificate.
— Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2022 -
Galdamez asks to have the dusty copy of her son’s birth certificate mailed to her.
— Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2021 -
There, Dana gave birth to a son, Harper, and once again left the father's name off the birth certificate.
— CBS News, 27 Oct. 2020 -
More people are eager to find out their age—and not the one on their birth certificate.
— Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 30 Jan. 2024 -
Obama did have a long-form birth certificate, and the White House released it.
— Dan Merica, CNN, 10 Apr. 2022 -
To sign up, adults need their ID and birth certificate for each child enrolling in the program.
— Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2022 -
The answers come in all over the place, often a decade or three younger than what’s on their birth certificates.
— Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024 -
The little girl was also born at home and does not have a birth certificate, the complaint says.
— Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 29 Dec. 2022 -
Maren’s father left was her birth certificate, which prompts her to hit the road in search of her mother.
— David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2022 -
In 2000, no U.S. birth certificate recorded the name Hermione.
— WSJ, 31 Dec. 2021 -
On the infant’s birth certificate, Bonnie lied about her age to keep Jim out of jail.
— Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024 -
His polish and sense of purpose caused a man from the audience to ask for a peek at the teen’s birth certificate.
— Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2023 -
Some states in the US will not add the parent to the birth certificate unless those circumstances are met.
— Allison Hope, Parents, 4 Feb. 2024 -
But with Parker, there was no legal battle to get the dads' names added to the birth certificate.
— Faith Karimi, CNN, 6 Mar. 2021 -
When Parker was born in 2019, getting the three-name birth certificate was a slam-dunk.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2021 -
Pye was angry with Yarbrough because that man had signed the birth certificate of a child Pye claimed was his.
— Dakin Andone, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024 -
When no one was looking, Homeira Qaderi added her own name to her son’s birth certificate.
— Rebekah Denn, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2020 -
The child did not have Doug's last name and Doug was not listed as the father on the original birth certificate.
— Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2021 -
Once abroad, someone with means might be able to shop for a fake birth certificate, Connolly told The Sun.
— Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2023 -
To apply, parents will need to bring their child's birth certificate and the parent's ID.
— Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2023 -
Prudhomme had asked her sister, Dianne, to mail her birth certificate to her home in Clear Lake near the end of 1989.
— Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 30 Nov. 2022 -
Instead, Jenner said in the episode that his birth certificate still has the original name Wolf on it.
— Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 25 Nov. 2022 -
Instead, under the passed law, students may need to provide a birth certificate that was filed around the time of their birth.
— Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 1 June 2021 -
Without a birth certificate, the couple wouldn’t be able to legally take her out the country.
— Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022 -
When their daughter was born in March 2018, Ashley didn't inform Doug and did not put his name on the birth certificate.
— Paul Larosa, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2021 -
The court order said a new birth certificate would be issued reflecting the change.
— Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 23 June 2022 -
This father went to get birth certificates of his newborn twins.
— Rob Picheta, CNN, 15 Aug. 2024 -
That leaves them in legal limbo with only the biological parent registered on their birth certificates, forcing the other to embark on the lengthy and costly process of adoption.
— Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 17 Oct. 2024 -
Tyler admonished viewers for digging into his private life, saying his children's birth certificates have now been made public.
— Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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