How to Use womb in a Sentence
womb
noun-
Not just the nine months in the womb, but all the rest of the years.
— Beverly Beckham, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022 -
The pups were exposed to wild bird scent right out of the womb.
— Steve Meyer | Alaska Outdoors, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2022 -
To my wife and to my daughter, who was still in the womb.
— Katie Bain, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2022 -
And Bruce Banner didn't Hulk-smash his way out of the womb.
— Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 29 June 2021 -
The First Star announces that all humankind was born out of the womb of Africa.
— Essence, 11 Aug. 2022 -
The short answer is yes: Babies can and do hiccup in the womb.
— Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 10 Aug. 2023 -
Alexander played a video that showed a womb with a fetus.
— Summer Linstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022 -
No matter if that life is in the womb, or that life is in foster care.
— Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 30 Aug. 2022 -
Science has revealed more and more of what's going on in the womb.
— Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 26 June 2022 -
After six months or so in the womb of the cave, Flamini succumbed to its rhythms.
— D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024 -
That’s when the fetus gets entangled in the womb and blood flow is cut off.
— J.l. Kirven, The Indianapolis Star, 27 May 2021 -
The primary job of hCG is to tell the body that there's life growing in the womb and that the body needs to build a nest for it.
— Lambeth Hochwald, Parents, 7 Jan. 2024 -
The notion that embryos can wriggle around in the womb or egg isn’t new.
— Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2021 -
Breech: The fetus's buttocks or feet are toward the opening of the womb.
— Brandi Jones, Verywell Health, 5 Aug. 2024 -
James Leroy was born in August 1985; his twin died in the womb when Hall was five months pregnant.
— Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023 -
This country, this globe, was built from a woman’s womb.
— David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 27 June 2022 -
When killing a baby in the womb is not wrong, everything is wrong.
— Diana García, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2021 -
Between these are neurons that form somewhere right in the middle of growth in the womb.
— Michael Franco, New Atlas, 16 Aug. 2024 -
Twin 12-day-old babies, in the first TV credits of their (very young) lives, played Ellie fresh out of the womb.
— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023 -
The embryos are cloned and transferred to the womb of a female pig so that her offspring end up with the edits.
— Emily Mullin, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2024 -
The woman was 19 weeks pregnant, the fetus too young to survive outside the womb.
— Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022 -
The insult of being exposed to alcohol and who-knows-what-else in the womb, sure.
— Jennifer Brookland, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2024 -
The roughly golf ball-sized tumor grew in the womb, engulfing much of the right hemisphere of his brain.
— Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2022 -
On the day of his birth, his mom was winding thread on the floor and Gemaly was unwinding rapidly out of her womb.
— Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2022 -
Trump said Biden and Democrats are willing to rip babies out of the womb in the final days of pregnancy.
— Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2024 -
To keep a baby that will not be able to live outside the womb or has no heart beat should not be forced to carry for 9 months.
— Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024 -
The coronavirus is not known to be transmitted in breast milk or from the mother to a fetus in the womb.
— Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2021 -
But it’s not a plodding womb-to-tomb replay of Maradona’s greatest hits, such as winning the World Cup in 1986.
— John Hopewell, Variety, 4 Nov. 2021 -
Her children, extensions of her soul, dance upon the womb of life.
— Photovogue, Vogue, 30 July 2024 -
Decades later, the use of external wombs is commonplace.
— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
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