How to Use single mother in a Sentence

single mother

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• White grew up in a tough part of town as one of four boys raised by a single mother.
  — Dave Skretta, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
• Nicole Perez Nicole Perez was a 27-year-old single mother to a 4-year-old son.
  — Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Jan. 2025
• The director is a single mother who was in the first class.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2024
• As a single mother, he’s been a vital source of strength for me.
  — Essence, 4 Sep. 2024
• Gray, known as Trey to those close to her, was a single mother to a 7-month-old daughter.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Aug. 2024
• The suspect, a single mother, lives about 100 miles southwest of the jail in Knoxville, records show.
  — Mark Price The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 28 July 2023
• Carmen, a single mother, makes $12 an hour and works 10 hours a night, six nights a week.
  — Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2023
• My two younger brothers and I were raised by a single mother.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
• This child was raised by a single mother and has no siblings.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2023
• In 2018, Kelli Haus was a single mother with two young sons.
  — Julie Satow, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• In the Craig Gillespie film, Ferrera plays Jenny, a single mother and nurse who bets on the wrong horse.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
• In 1928, Francis gave birth to Dorothy Williams, her only child, and raised her as a single mother.
  — Dawn Sawyer, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
• He was raised by a single mother in North Charleston and has one brother.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
• Dear Amy: My daughter is a single mother of two children, ages 7 and 5.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
• The native New Yorker was raised by a single mother, who was a schoolteacher in Queens.
  — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Espinoza grew up as one of five siblings, raised by a single mother.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
• The story of a boy born into poverty to a teenage single mother in Appalachia.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• Galitzine plays a heartthrob boy band singer who falls for a 40-year-old single mother.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 9 May 2024
• The story of a boy born into poverty to a teenage single mother in Appalachia. 6.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
• The story of a boy born into poverty to a teenage single mother in Appalachia. 5.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• This was the year a proud single mother beat out a reigning champion.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Debbie was a young single mother with two toddlers and worked in a restaurant bar.
  — Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• With the change in policy, for example, take a single mother with a child.
  — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 15 Feb. 2024
• She and her siblings were raised by her single mother, Andrea Carter.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 20 May 2024
• At the time, Graham was a single mother in the first year of her residency to become a chaplain.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2023
• Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving as a single mother of two to buy a house in the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2024
• That same day, his grandmother died too, leaving Jones a single mother of four.
  — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 30 Sep. 2023
• As a single mother, Richard often relied on her neighbors to pick up her kids or step in as babysitters.
  — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
• Being a mother is one of the hardest and most rewarding jobs on the planet — being a single mother is even more of a feat.
  — Rebecca Norris, Woman's Day, 6 Apr. 2023
• His wife, their two adult children and their partners are live-in residents when the young housemaid, a single mother of an 11-month-old infant, is murdered.
  — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 8 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Jan 2025