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How to use motherhood in a sentence

26 example sentences · noun

Motherhood means the state of being a mother. Example: “And at that point, we have sentenced a child to motherhood.”

Examples of motherhood by meaning

nounMothers, considered as a group.

  • the nation's motherhood

More sentences with motherhood

  • And at that point, we have sentenced a child to motherhood.2016 February 21, “Abortion Laws”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 2, John Oliver (actor), via HBO. From the entry sentence
  • Another semiacquaintance, Ali, said to me, “Jen, you're getting the perfect training for motherhood at this party!”2014, Jen Kirkman, I Can Barely Take Care of Myself, page 188. From the entry semiacquaintance
  • So-called momoirs, first-person accounts exploding some of the sentimentality about motherhood, include Andrea J.2006 December 17, Lizzie Skurnick, “Chick Lit, the Sequel: Yummy Mummy”, in The New York Times. From the entry momoir
  • It simply expresses the biblical concepts of one human race and of woman's primary role--motherhood.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 23. From the entry demythologize
  • Given all her responsibilities of motherhood and doctordom, Karen relishes her free time.2000, Marc Jaffe, Sleeping With Your Gynecologist: Tales from My Marriage to an Ob\gyn, page 35. From the entry doctordom
  • As a matter of fact, by now it has become a motherhood statement.1979 June 12, Andrew Assur (witness), “Statement of Dr. Andrew Assur, Chief Scientist, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering…. From the entry motherhood statement
  • The question is, how do we achieve the blessed state of motherhood?1979 June 12, Andrew Assur (witness), “Statement of Dr. Andrew Assur, Chief Scientist, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering…. From the entry motherhood statement
  • Awaken the womanhood of America to free the motherhood of the world!1913, Rachel Galvin, quoting Margaret Sanger, “Margaret Sanger's "Deeds of Terrible Virtue"”, in Humanities, volume 19, number 5, National…. From the entry womanhood
  • You are the very model of unsmothering motherhood.2018, Molly MacRae, Scones and Scoundrels. From the entry unsmothering
  • I am the Amelia Bedelia of motherhood.2018, Shelley Holtzendorff, The Job/Joy of Mommyhood, WestBow Press. From the entry Amelia Bedelia
  • Literary works of the fifteenth century showed a new regard for the cultural worth of motherhood and wifery.2015, Ross E. Dunn, Laura J. Mitchell, Panorama: A World History, volume 2 (from 1300), McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 445. From the entry wifery
  • In the end, “The Story Sisters,” for all its magic realism, is about a family navigating through motherhood, sisterhood, daughterhood.2009 June 7, Chelsea Cain, “Fairest of Them All”, in New York Times. From the entry daughterhood
  • In mammals, this transition from nulliparity to motherhood profoundly and fundamentally alters the female’s behavioral and motivational repertoire.2007 December 11, Craig Howard Kinsley, Massimo Bardi, Kate Karelina, Brandi Rima, Lillian Christon, Julia Friedenberg, Garrett Griffin…. From the entry nulliparity
  • Marriage, pregnancy, and motherhood, however, are grounds for compulsory nonconscription for women while religious conviction is grounds for voluntary nonconscription.1993, Leonore Loeb Adler, International handbook on gender roles, page 151. From the entry nonconscription
  • But in these exciting days her widowhood and her motherhood weighed less heavily upon her than ever before.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter XVIII, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published June 1944, →OCLC…. From the entry minx
  • One horror of motherhood lies in the moments when she can see both the exquisiteness of her child and his utter inconsequence to others.2022, Jennifer Egan, The Candy House, Corsair, page 326. From the entry exquisiteness
  • So there are mothers and unmothers, and while neither choice is the easy one to make, motherhood is at least the comfortable one.2015, Jessica Knoll, Luckiest Girl Alive. From the entry unmother
  • To my sister, Kristen, who wears the badge of motherhood with pride and inspires people to love without reservation, without judgment, without fear.2009, Kimberly Van Meter, Kids on the Doorstep, →ISBN, dedication, page 6. From the entry mama bear
  • Nevertheless, this book is about the truth, the good and the bad, so I will tread into the forbidden territory, the Mordor of motherhood.2007, B. Erin Wylde, Where Did I Go?, →ISBN, page 100. From the entry Mordor
  • Nature took its course, and Marie did give birth to a bundle of joy, but she soon discovered that motherhood was not all bliss.2005, Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, Robert W. Ullman, Rage-Free Kids, Picnic Point Press, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry bundle of joy
  • It went along with a general hostility to families, motherhood, being a housewife — any role that seemed at all traditionally female.1978 April 22, Nancy Wechsler, “The Evolution of a Gay Parents Center”, in Gay Community News, page 8. From the entry unliberated
  • 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
  • We're repeatedly told how Chilean women were "trained since early childhood for a life of virtue, faith and abnegation," how "their fate was a marriage of convenience and motherhood.1999 November 2, Michiko Kakutani, “Books of The Times: A Single Girl Takes On the California Frontier”, in The New York Times (E…. From the entry abnegation
  • Next there was Baby Blount to be waited upon, and his mother, a pretty, appealing lady, with the glory of motherhood about her like a fairy garment.1917, George W. Gough, chapter 19, in The Yeoman Adventurer. From the entry ikkle
  • Everyone in this conversation presumed that black women should be working for wages, that their freedom did not entail the kinds of domesticity, motherhood, and wifery promoted for white women.2016, Micki McElya, The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University…. From the entry wifery

Meaning of motherhood

  1. noun The state of being a mother.
  2. noun Mothers, considered as a group.

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Questions about motherhood in a sentence

How do you use motherhood in a sentence?
Motherhood is used as a noun. For example: “And at that point, we have sentenced a child to motherhood.”
What is a short sentence with motherhood?
“the nation's motherhood”
What does motherhood mean?
Motherhood means the state of being a mother.

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