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How to use childless in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective

Childless means not having any children. Example: ““He’s a 70-year-old childless warmonger and he has no stake in the future of this country,” Dans said.”

Examples of childless by meaning

adjectiveNot having any children.

  • “He’s a 70-year-old childless warmonger and he has no stake in the future of this country,” Dans said.2025 July 28, Steve Contorno, quoting Paul Dans, “Project 2025 architect Paul Dans to challenge Lindsey Graham for Senate in South...

More sentences with childless

  • Being single, and childless—or child-free, as she would put it—she can do that.2012, Suzanne Bugler, The Child Inside, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN. From the entry child-free
  • She is placed at the end of generations: an antigenerative force, childless, perverted, an incestuous offspring.2010, Fanny Söderbäck, Feminist Readings of Antigone, page 76. From the entry antigenerative
  • The hall was brilliantly lit, pernicketily tidy, the hall of a childless couple.2010, Charles Percy Snow, Homecomings, House of Stratus, →ISBN. From the entry pernicketily
  • The tie between the childless widow and the levir exists automatically from the moment of widowhood.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 236. From the entry levir
  • The childless woman, who had been a doll-less child, took this one from the now unresisting girl.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry doll-less
  • Her metal breast accoutrements thrust forward over a childless belly.2010, Michael McCloskey, Slave of Chu Kutall. From the entry grubling
  • Chazal have said that the Ovos were childless, to induce them to daven for children, because Hashem longs for their tefilos.2000 August 31, rach...@netmedia.net.il, “MIDEI SHABBOS by Rabbi Eliezer Chrysler - Shoftim”, in alt.religion.judaism.orthodox (Usenet). From the entry tefilla
  • She so bewitched the whole princely race that six different princes, although each was married to a young wife, remained childless.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 93. From the entry princely
  • The play, entitled “Snowflake”, was based on a Russian legend about a childless couple who were given a snowchild by the children of the village.1975, The Wisconsin Times, page 13, column 2. From the entry snowchild
  • What could be more selfish, more miserly—this in specific is what gnaws at him—than dying childless, terminating the line, subtracting oneself from the great work of generation?2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Three”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry miserly

Meaning of childless

  1. adjective Not having any children.

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Questions about childless in a sentence

How do you use childless in a sentence?
Childless is used as an adjective. For example: ““He’s a 70-year-old childless warmonger and he has no stake in the future of this country,” Dans said.”
What is a short sentence with childless?
“Her metal breast accoutrements thrust forward over a childless belly.”
What does childless mean?
Childless means not having any children.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: childless (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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