How to Use birth certificate in a Sentence

birth certificate

noun
  • This father went to get birth certificates of his newborn twins.
    Rob Picheta, CNN, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Only my wife’s good sense kept his surname from higher billing on the boy’s birth certificate.
    Washington Post, 3 June 2021
  • The following year, court clerks in Arolsen issued him a new birth certificate.
    NBC News, 23 June 2021
  • 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
  • If not, parents can pick up meals with a student ID, report card or birth certificate.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 2 June 2021
  • Photos of him holding up the twins’ birth certificates have also been widely shared on social media platforms.
    Chantelle Lee, TIME, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The contest requires a birth certificate, and Grant discovers that his quirky parents never got him one.
    Washington Post, 2 June 2021
  • The law would allow anyone to challenge a person's gender identity and require them to present a birth certificate as proof.
    Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 7 June 2021
  • The twins were born on Saturday, Aug. 10, as written on their birth certificate.
    Camilla Alcini, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Sometimes you are also required to submit proof of age (e.g. birth certificate), but only if there's an age discrepancy in your records.
    Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 3 June 2021
  • The fault was not Scott’s, but the obstacles to obtaining her birth certificate from her birthplace in Nevada.
    Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
  • Just this year, a throuple in California made history as the first set of parents to have three names listed on their child’s birth certificate.
    Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 27 May 2021
  • All 26 bills require children to prove their gender assigned at birth by presenting their birth certificate or a valid exam from a licensed physician if their gender is disputed.
    Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 7 June 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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