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How to use infancy in a sentence

28 example sentences · noun

Infancy means the earliest period of childhood (crawling rather than walking). Example: “Space tourism is still in its infancy.”

Examples of infancy by meaning

nounAn early stage in the development of anything.

  • Space tourism is still in its infancy.
  • McClure, for diesel propulsion on railways was then more or less in its infancy.1941 May, Voyageur, “The Clogher Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 195

More sentences with infancy

  • In Troy she becomes Paris’ wife, bearing him several children, all of whom die in infancy.From the entry bear
  • Though the field is still in its infancy, its philosophical implications are staggering.2025 March 13, Dalton Conley, “A New Scientific Field Is Recasting Who We Are and How We Got That Way”, in New York Times. From the entry hereditarian
  • Similarly discredited is the 'edumyth' that the brain's structure is defined by infancy or by adolescence.2021 June 21, Lynne Hunt, Denise Chalmers, University Teaching in Focus: A Learning-centred Approach, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry edumyth
  • Cryonics was in its infancy then, and cryobiologists were hard to find, let alone cryonicists.2008, Chris Middings, The Reincarnation, page 41. From the entry cryonicist
  • First, the inseparable years of her infancy and toddlerdom, when we traveled everywhere in tandem.2007 November 16, Beth Quinn Barnard, “Dropping Off My Daughter, at a New Life”, in New York Times. From the entry toddlerdom
  • Translation pedagogy is still in its infancy, and is in need of substantial theorisation.2004, Silvia Bernardini, edited by Kirsten Malmkjær, Translation in Undergraduate Degree Programmes, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 23. From the entry theorisation
  • Shrimp farming is in its infancy in Africa. but Asia has most of the world's shrimp farms.1998, Claude E. Boyd, Pond Aquaculture Water Quality Management, page 605. From the entry shrimp
  • Ultrasound as a treatment for degenerative arthritis was in its infancy.1991, Stephen King, Needful Things. From the entry ultrasound
  • The disease starts as a progressive cerebellar ataxia in infancy and later progressive oculocutaneous telangiectasiae develop.1966, Acta Pædiatrica Scandinavica, volume 55, page 239, column 1. From the entry telangiectasiae
  • The oldest daughter, named Mozella, died in infancy.2020, Joice Christine Bailey Lewis, My Ancestral Voices, →ISBN. From the entry Mozela
  • Our research on elastofluidics is still in its infancy.2014 April 15, Sridhar Kota, “Shape-Shifting Things to Come”, in Scientific American, volume 310. From the entry elastofluidics
  • Do note, as Goin mentions, this is a policy better implemented when the kinder are well past infancy.2012, Charlotte Druckman, Skirt Steak: Women Chefs on Standing the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 192. From the entry kinder
  • Movements are explored in play from infancy onwards.2008, Janet Batsleer, Informal Learning in Youth Work, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 110. From the entry repetition, repetition, repetition
  • “The field of Bigfootology is still in its infancy.1999, Paul Buchanan, Wild Ride on Bigfoot Mountain (Heebie Jeebies; 6), Nashville, Tenn.: Broadman & Holman Publishers, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry Bigfootology
  • The effects upon the development of personality and behavior of a lack-love infancy appear to have still further repercussions.1988, Karl J. Nice, Science and other ways of knowing. From the entry lack-love
  • He murmurs to himself, "Her body is twenty-two, but she is in the infancy of a second life.1951, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mercury Press, page 71. From the entry nova
  • From the first bewrayments of infancy to the last accidents of senility, we furnish contempt to one another by our discomfitures.1924, Rupert Hughes, The Golden Ladder, page 163. From the entry bewrayment
  • Those who organized it and stood faithfully by it in its infancy have nearly all passed to their heavenly reward.1921 November 3, “News of the churches [column]”, in Arkansas Methodist, volume 40, number 43, page 14. From the entry Sunday school
  • In early infancy activity is entirely purposeless and unwilled, merely the instinctive movement of every part of the body.1907, Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux, The Unfolding Life. From the entry unwilled
  • The roots of what are popularly taken to be introversion and extroversion show up in infancy: positive emotionality, or extroversion, and negative emotionality, or neuroticism.2016 November 1, Drake Baer, “Are you an introvert or an extrovert? It’s more complicated than that”, in CNN, archived from the original…. From the entry extroversion
  • And, at her suit, Jove shall foreclaim that gift Of his stepdaughter,“ and her sons shall be Transformed to manhood from their infancy.'1998, A. D. Melville, Metamorphoses. From the entry foreclaim
  • Whatever motherhood might look like for you through pregnancy, surrogacy, fostering, adopting, or mentoring, through infancy, toddlerhood, threenagers, and teenagers, it is all a process of letting go.2018, Jamie Sumner, Unbound: Finding Freedom from Unrealistic Expectations of Motherhood, →ISBN. From the entry threenager
  • The study of stratigraphy was at this point in its infancy, but it was already understood that different layers of rocks had been formed during different periods.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry stratigraphy
  • It is a lifelong learning process that lasts from an individual’s infancy to adulthood and “which can be said to end only with his death” (ibid., p. 40).1979, Johannes Wilbert, editor, Enculturation in Latin America, University of California, page 8. From the entry enculturation
  • We have others in foster-homes where they have grown up from infancy, and in some cases there are receiving invalid pensions because of their mental deficiency.1927, Victoria. Parliament. Legislative Assembly, Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, page 10. From the entry foster-home
  • While his physical heritage may show resemblance to one parent or the other, in infancy, his deities, including the maît-tête, become manifest only with maturity and establish their special position.1953, Maya Daren, The Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 71. From the entry met tet

Meaning of infancy

  1. noun The earliest period of childhood (crawling rather than walking).
  2. noun The state of being an infant.
  3. noun An early stage in the development of anything.

Full definition of infancy

Questions about infancy in a sentence

How do you use infancy in a sentence?
Infancy is used as a noun. For example: “Space tourism is still in its infancy.”
What is a short sentence with infancy?
“Space tourism is still in its infancy.”
What does infancy mean?
Infancy means the earliest period of childhood (crawling rather than walking).

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