How to Use child in a Sentence

child

noun
  • All of their children are grown now.
  • She's pregnant with their first child.
  • Men are such children sometimes.
  • Your child just needs to be under the age of 13 to use it.
    — Kerri Anne Renzulli, wsj.com, 24 Dec. 2023
  • At the top of 2022, Jeezy and Mae welcomed their first child.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Try to speak more of the concern – for your friend’s wife and child – than the shock.
    — R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
  • No children played in parks: The swings and slides were too hot to sit on.
    — Emily Kask, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Imagine having a wife and child who have to go through the same thing.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The Carters have four children: three sons and one daughter.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2023
  • When my child goes to school, do their teachers teach this?
    — Renata Cló, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • As a child, a plague swept through the city, and his older brother, Jordie, died.
    — Town & Country, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Many of them have children of their own and are thriving.
    — Alexis Waiss, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Benitez, 72, was born in Cuba and came to the United States as a child.
    — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The Tesla, as in O'Dowd's other tests, struck the child mannequin.
    — Matt McFarland, CNN, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The singer and only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley was 54.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2023
  • But the long hours were taking a toll on his wife, Amy, and their five young children.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The children and [families] are in our heart [sic] and prayers.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
  • There is no indication Quinn or their child was at the home at the time.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The two worked at the CIA for 28 years, raised two children and wrote books together.
    — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Presley, 27, is a child of the ’90s, and grew up fully immersed in the Todd Oldham world.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Stuckle was later charged with child abuse — and had to name who the father was.
    — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2022
  • One big one: paying more money to sit next to their children on the plane.
    — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 18 Oct. 2024
  • In 2022, Diddy announced the birth of his seventh child, Love, with Dana Tran.
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The fire resulted in their and their five children’s deaths.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2024
  • Their dream is to have a child and not everybody gets that blessing.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2022
  • One source who spoke to Rolling Stone alleged that the one-year-old child was found with a loose bullet in their mouth.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Manya, Golda, and his two younger children, Artek and Rivka, were all killed by the Nazis.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Karina Smirnoff welcomed her first child, Theo Gabriel, in the spring of 2020.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Steven Pilar, 47, pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography late last year.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Illinois passed a law in August 2023 requiring parents to compensate child influencers, becoming the first state to do so.
    — Karen Fratti, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025

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