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How to use birthday in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Birthday means the anniversary of the day on which someone is born. Example: “When's your birthday? Mine's on April 1.”

Examples of birthday by meaning

nounThe anniversary of the day on which someone is born.

  • When's your birthday? Mine's on April 1.
  • I'll be thirty-seven (years old) next birthday.
  • My fortieth birthday is only two years off!

nounA birthday party.

  • I'd like to invite you all to my birthday.

More sentences with birthday

  • I'm going to give my wife a necklace for her birthday.From the entry give
  • I gave my boyfriend oral for the first time on his birthday.From the entry oral
  • We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.From the entry do
  • Pat crushed up a package of birthday cake Oreos and sprinkled them over birthday cake ice cream.From the entry birthday cake
  • It took everything in me to resist the temptation to skip work on my birthday.From the entry everything
  • Only his friends attended his birthday party. They're all broke, so he got no present.From the entry present
  • "Surprise!" we shouted as we jumped out from the cupboard. "Happy birthday!"From the entry surprise
  • George embarrassed his aunt by answering the door in his birthday suit.From the entry birthday suit
  • Mate, don't be a piker! Come to Angie′s birthday party tonight!From the entry piker
  • Next week includes celebrations for both Martin's birthday and for his new job.From the entry celebration
  • He had a really lame excuse for missing the birthday party.From the entry lame
  • The prince honored me with an invitation to his birthday banquet.From the entry honor
  • We had planned a picnic for Joe's birthday, but it ended up drizzling all day.From the entry drizzle
  • I warned him he'd be getting a huge box of birthday presents from me.From the entry warn
  • When he walked into his surprise birthday party, he was completely speechless.From the entry speechless
  • Oh, today's Cyrell's bday. We hella sang her happy birthday at the spot.From the entry hella
  • They went all out for his eightieth birthday party and chartered a tour boat on the bay.From the entry go all out
  • They all went out to whoop it up on his 21st birthday.From the entry whoop it up
  • I have been racking my brain all day trying to think of a birthday present for her.From the entry rack one's brain
  • I was preoccupied with a deadline at work, and I forgot his birthday.From the entry preoccupied
  • They served a pretty skimpy portion of ice cream as the free birthday dessert.From the entry skimpy
  • We performed at the birthday party and we kept the plot squeaky clean.From the entry squeaky clean
  • Her mom bought her a digital watch as a birthday gift.From the entry digital watch
  • The children made their mother breakfast in bed on her birthday.From the entry breakfast in bed
  • The book I got for my 18th birthday remained unread until my retirement.From the entry unread
  • I was embarrassed that they made such a big to-do out of my birthday.From the entry to-do
  • We thought it a good idea to get Dave a strippergram for his birthday.From the entry strippergram
  • I have visited Baden-Württemberg every year to purchase springerle for my wife on her birthday.From the entry springerle
  • What's with all the presents? Are you having a birthday party?From the entry what's with
  • Of course I'm coming to your birthday party. I wouldn't miss it for worlds!From the entry for worlds
  • Bethany and her friends reverse gangbanged her husband on his birthday.From the entry reverse gangbang
  • You lucky girl! Granny's knitted you an egg cosy for your birthday!From the entry egg cosy
  • Happy birthday in heaven, Joan; today would have been your 12th birthday.From the entry happy birthday in heaven
  • I'm turning 25 on the 25th so it's my golden birthday.From the entry golden birthday
  • He wore brown jeans for his birthday.From the entry brown
  • Write his birthday on the calendar hanging on the wall.From the entry calendar

Meaning of birthday

  1. noun The anniversary of the day on which someone is born.
  2. noun The anniversary of the day on which something is created.
  3. noun The date on which someone is born or something is created, more commonly called birthdate or date of birth.

Full definition of birthday

Questions about birthday in a sentence

How do you use birthday in a sentence?
Birthday is used as a noun and verb. For example: “When's your birthday? Mine's on April 1.”
What is a short sentence with birthday?
“He wore brown jeans for his birthday.”
What does birthday mean?
Birthday means the anniversary of the day on which someone is born.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: birthday (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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