How to Use birth in a Sentence

birth

1 of 2 noun
  • He was present at the birth of his daughter.
  • We are witnessing the birth of a new era.
  • Please indicate your date of birth.
  • The hospital reported an increase in premature births.
  • The perfect place, in fact, to give birth to the perfect soul food.
    Jonathan Thompson, Travel + Leisure, 21 Jan. 2024
  • This year marks the 100th anniversary of Phillips' birth.
    Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The singer announced the birth of their first child in January.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Now is not the time to tell him that his aunt is really his birth mom.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Lemon sharks, bull sharks, mako sharks and blue sharks are among those that give birth to live young.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
  • That was really the birth of the idea of starting the company.
    Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2023
  • His research tracked a group of 474 babies from birth to about age 7.
    Bill Strickland, Parents, 9 Aug. 2023
  • This gave birth to a podcast, and in 2017, a publishing house.
    Jon Niccum, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The couple’s 6-month-old son, their first boy after the birth of five daughters, was asleep in a stroller.
    Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Not even during Covid, not even after the day after the, the wife and this couple gave birth.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • The Board Book Club, aimed at babies from birth to age 3, contains three board books.
    Julia Pelly, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The latter is a dentist, has a three-year-old son and is about to give birth to her second child.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2024
  • There, in a manger — a feed trough for animals — Mary gives birth to the child who the faithful believe is the son of God.
    Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
  • There are also the costs of giving birth in Abuja that Aliyu didn't have back home.
    Adie Vanessa Offiong, CNN, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Anyway, the joy of Disneyland soon gives way to Bree screaming at the top of her lungs about to give birth.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 24 June 2023
  • The National Park Service owns the birth home of the late civil rights leader.
    Jolie Lash, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • That winter, the woman gave birth to a second child, and Aetna did it again.
    Maya Miller, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Dunning took to Twitter to announce the birth of his son, Mack, on Friday night.
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 27 May 2023
  • The state did expand Medicaid for new moms to a whole year after birth in June.
    Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 17 July 2023
  • And the idea of people giving birth to themselves, as happened at the end of Men, is equally far-fetched.
    David Gilbert, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Adia, a 16-year-old Grevy’s zebra, gave birth to her fifth offspring, a female foal, on Aug. 21.
    Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • In this situation, Licho gave birth to a boy named Berebe—a source of some joy.
    Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • Arthur Janis is a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, for whom hair is sacred from the moment of birth.
    Joe Kottke, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Bernard told me of a patient whose first child had a genetic anomaly and died less than a year after birth.
    Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The bill proposed to limit high school athletes to playing on teams that match the gender they were assigned at birth.
    Wcco Staff, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The other day my mother brought up the idea of bringing her dog with her into the delivery room while my wife gives birth.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Mar. 2024
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birth

2 of 2 verb
  • To grow and birth children(I could go on and on about this one!).
    Korin Miller, Health.com, 17 June 2021
  • Ten years is a good amount of time to birth something into the world.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
  • In its wake, the black hole left behind a trail of young, hot blue stars birthed from gas.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
  • This is the only place the whales are known to birth and feed their young, scientists say.
    courant.com, 20 Dec. 2021
  • In the Catholicism of my youth, a woman’s only role was to birth and raise more Catholics.
    Clare Egan, Longreads, 13 Feb. 2024
  • So far, the startup’s care teams have helped birth 1,500 babies.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Black women had to birth the children of white men who raped them.
    Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Reasonably Shady was Robyn’s idea, and it kind of was birthed out of the pandemic.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 7 Nov. 2023
  • For example, the eastern garter snake births a litter of 10 to 40 snakes.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Alpha did not beget Delta, which did not birth Omicron.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 13 May 2022
  • San Francisco birthed the Beatniks and the Summer of Love.
    Bob Fisher, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • All that alone time, for some, can birth a bought of creativity.
    Pat McDonogh, The Courier-Journal, 12 May 2022
  • Kids ages birth through grade five can pick up a game board at their library to begin playing.
    Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 23 May 2022
  • If your mama birthed you in the state that gave the world the Noo Joisey Turnpike, your Bruce fandom is non-negotiable.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The English musician and ideas man helped birth glam and art rock as a member of Roxy Music.
    David Marchese David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2022
  • With Roxi and Rebel safely birthed and thriving, one question many had was whether the girls were twins or siblings.
    Emily Nadal, Parents, 17 Jan. 2024
  • That desire to lessen the pain of others is also what birthed Wondermind.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Kaiwi joins five siblings who were also birthed by a 12-year-old monk seal named RK96.
    Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Part of the rationale for large families in the South during the era of crop labor was to birth their labor force.
    Marc Myers, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Bledel and Kartheiser welcomed their first child in fall 2015 but kept the pregnancy and birth a secret.
    Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Bledel and Kartheiser welcomed their first child in fall 2015, but kept the pregnancy and birth a secret, too.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The couple left their Costa Mesa home on Feb. 13 to travel to Kyiv for the baby’s birth the following day.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Weir helped birth the new world, watched its ruination, and spent the autumn of his life rebuilding it.
    Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Many of the animals birthed there bring benefits to habitats far away.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • As the bubble expands, regions of dense, cold gas that can birth stars collect on its surface.
    Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The result is a melding of minds that has birthed one of Dubai’s most exciting underground spots.
    Sophie Prideaux, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2023
  • At 20, my grandmother walked herself through the snow to birth her first children, twins, on Christmas Day.
    Richard Morgan, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • If something goes wrong and if my baby's in danger, you guys are going to birth my baby.
    Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Females birth about six litters of eight young on average per year.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Other regions grow rich in gas and dust and begin, in their newfound opulence, to birth new stars.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2022

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