How to Use unborn in a Sentence

unborn

adjective
  • The free world has seen the science of the unborn child.
    NBC News, 9 Oct. 2022
  • That still leaves open the matter of what to teach my unborn child.
    James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Friends and family cheer at the sight of an unborn child.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • That has changed in the days since a family lost two loved ones and an unborn child.
    Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Ronchi was, in fact, the father of Galperina’s unborn child, the court said.
    John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Balderrama said the deaths, Logan and her unborn child, marked the 57th and 58th murders in the city.
    Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The crash killed the co-pilot: her husband, Gus, the father of their unborn child.
    John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2021
  • One was an unborn boy named Armani who was about a month from his due date.
    Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • One of them, after all, is her fiancé — the father of her unborn child.
    John Domini, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Protecting our livelihood, guns and the unborn from the left.
    Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Victor had to choose whether to save his wife’s life or his unborn daughter’s.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Ryan; her boyfriend, Reynold Lester; her one-year-old son, Alonzo; and her unborn child were all killed.
    Jordan McGillis, National Review, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The mom who searched for her unborn child’s child’s name at a cemetery has revealed her search has come to an end.
    Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 17 June 2024
  • The woman and her unborn child died as a result of the shooting, police said.
    David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2024
  • The chorus may at times be the ancestors, or the future, the as-yet unborn, watching us.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The pills killed her unborn twins, but did not expel their remains.
    The Editors, National Review, 23 Sep. 2024
  • But some savvy fans think that the singer just revealed the unannounced name of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' unborn fourth child.
    Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Safe haven laws didn’t save them or their unborn babies.
    Caroline Orr Bueno, The New Republic, 15 Dec. 2021
  • So, for instance, the ballot language refers to an unborn child.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Polley’s conceit is that Autje is telling the story of the meeting to the unborn child of Ona, played by Rooney Mara.
    Esther Zuckerman, Time, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Those charges are connected with his wife Kali and his unborn child’s deaths.
    Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
  • On-scene paramedics pronounced the 37-year-old woman dead at the home, along with her unborn child, police said.
    Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Three people were killed in the first three days of the year, and three mass shootings alone left 17 people and an unborn child dead by April 15.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Among the causalities were a woman and her unborn child.
    Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Arreola-Murillo is also charged in the death of Mejia’s unborn child.
    Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Doctors were able to save her, but not her unborn baby.
    Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 27 May 2022
  • Lala Kent is giving fans a glimpse at her unborn baby girl.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 28 June 2024
  • But the silver is cursed and has consequences for all of them, including the unborn.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Dec. 2022
  • But the unborn mind is clean, horizon To horizon, its dome over the planet unfathomable blue.
    T. R. Hummer, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Waterman kidnapped Ashley Bush, who was pregnant, and caused the deaths of Bush and her unborn child -- Valkyrie.
    Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 16 Oct. 2024

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