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How to use newborn in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Newborn means recently born. Example: “The prince's newborn baby is fifth in line to the throne.”

Examples of newborn by meaning

nounA recently born baby.

  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel on Friday rolled back a decadeslong recommendation that all newborns get a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth.2025 December 5, Aria Bendix and Erika Edwards, “CDC advisory panel rolls back universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation”, in NBC News

More sentences with newborn

  • The prince's newborn baby is fifth in line to the throne.From the entry throne
  • My wife is on a two year maternity leave while she takes care of her newborn baby.From the entry maternity leave
  • Newborn puppies should not be separated from their mother and littermates.From the entry littermate
  • She couldn't ignore the newborn baby's demands for attention.From the entry demand
  • In the tale, a maleficent witch cursed the newborn princess.From the entry maleficent
  • My husband is on a three-month paternity leave while he looks after our newborn baby and I’m working abroad.From the entry paternity leave
  • Both my husband and I are on a 3-month parental leave while we look after our newborn baby.From the entry parental leave
  • In modern times, the only use I've heard for making a pelmatogram is for newborn babies, as a form of identification.From the entry pelmatogram
  • How long was your newborn baby?From the entry long
  • Warm congratulations on your newborn boy!From the entry congratulations
  • Sometimes inconsolability may occur in newborns and infants. If your baby is crying so much that you are worried or despairing, call your pediatrician and ask for help.From the entry inconsolability
  • The first refers to a skin-covered, fetuslike abnormal mass that’s mostly inside the newborn.2023 January 18, Poonam Sachdev, Julian Selemin, “What Are Parasitic Twins?”, in WebMD. From the entry fetuslike
  • Of course, we create the problem to begin with by offering a bink to newborn babies.2018, Justin Lind-Ayres, Is That Poop on My Arm?: Parenting While Christian, page 86. From the entry bink
  • There's as dyky as Sappho herself and bare to the bottom as a newborn.2015, Larry Hatch, Hoppers. From the entry dyky
  • Some doctors practiced passive eugenicide one newborn infant at a time.2013, Arthur L. Caplan, Robert Arp, Contemporary Debates in Bioethics, →ISBN. From the entry eugenicide
  • First, humans are altricial, with immature newborns and a long childhood.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 281. From the entry altricial
  • Antigas medicine for babies is really effective when they're newborns and seem to always have gas pain.2011, Quinton Skinner, Do I Look Like a Daddy to You?, page 153. From the entry antigas
  • I was on a long road trip with my 3-year-old daughter and newborn twin boys.2009, Rebecca, “Road Trip”, in Jen Peters, Ginger Highland, editor, Mother of the Year: The Adventures and Misadventures of Parenthood, 2…. From the entry huggie
  • Trauma to the newborn may be minimized by en caul delivery.2007, Ashley S. Roman, Martin L. Pernoll, “Late Pregnancy Complications”, in Alan H. DeCherney, Lauren Nathan, T. Murphy Goodwin, Neri…. From the entry en caul
  • Mature female black rockfish and newborn (inset), which sports an oil globule (arrow) - its prepacked lunch.2005 June 4, Janet Raloff, “Empty Nets: Fisheries may be crippling themselves by targeting the big ones”, in Science News, archived from…. From the entry globule
  • Being christened by a urinating bare-bottomed newborn is almost a rite of passage of parenthood.2005, Linda Sonna, Early-Start Potty Training, page viii. From the entry christen
  • Crickets can be purchased in many sizes from newborns ("pinheads") to adults.2000, Manny Rubio, Scorpions: Everything About Purchase, Care, Feeding, and…. From the entry pinhead
  • Consider the effects of simple rhythm and "bodybeat sounds" on newborn infants.1996, David Chagall, Surviving the Media Jungle, page 4. From the entry bodybeat
  • One of the hassles with a newborn is their constant need for nappies in huge quantities.1990, Michael L. Frankel, Gently with the Tides: The Best of Living Aboard, Center for Marine Conservation, →ISBN, page 150. From the entry nappy cover
  • Slater, meanwhile, posted a video of Scottie carrying the newborn and adorably saying "Hi Shoti!" while caressing his cheek.2022 May 28, MGP, GMA News, “Kryz Uy and Slater Young's firstborn Scottie meets baby brother”, in GMA News Online. From the entry shoti
  • Alec Baldwin's second wife Hillary 'Hilaria' Thomas shared three Instastories on Wednesday gushing over their newborn daughter Ilaria Catalina Irena Baldwin.2022 October 5, Cassie Carpenter, “Hilaria Baldwin gushes over newborn seventh child Ilaria making her 'tired' but 'happy'... as her…. From the entry Instastory
  • The newborn examination confirms the diagnosis of amelia and distinguishes it from other limb deficiencies (e.g. terminal transverse defects) and sirenomelia.2020, Birth Defects Surveillance: A Manual for Programme Managers, 2nd edition, World Health Organization, page 119. From the entry amelia
  • Just ask the doctors how many cases of infantile jaundice in newborn babies have this scene that particular week?2016, Dueep Jyot Singh, John Davidson, Knowing More About Jaundice - Prevention and Natural Cure Remedies of Jaundice, Mendon Cottage…. From the entry jaundice
  • The corpse of a newborn child was found in waters off the typhoon shelter in Aberdeen on Tuesday morning.2015 December 15, Vivienne Zeng, “Infant’s body found floating near Aberdeen Typhoon Shelter”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the…. From the entry Aberdeen
  • Expression of MAP1B during glomerulogenesis in newborn rat kidney.2015 October 9, “Microtubule Associated Protein 1b (MAP1B) Is a Marker of the Microtubular Cytoskeleton in Podocytes but Is Not Essential…. From the entry glomerulogenesis
  • This newborn is half asleep, half awake, perched, docked really, atop the carriage in a comfy baby seat at table height.2013, Joe Wise, The Truth in Twenty ... and Then Some. From the entry youngsome
  • She was not a Yoruba practitioner but nevertheless had asked for a “birth reading” for her newborn daughter.2012, Velma E. Love, Divining the Self: A Study in Yoruba Myth and Human Consciousness, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry Yoruba
  • Positioned thus, Lehua suckled her newborn son.2012, Michael Herr, The Old Queen and the Maui Maiden, page 13. From the entry okole
  • At birth, newborn hoglets are pink, blind, and completely helpless.2008, Michael Leach, Hedgehog, page 8. From the entry hoglet
  • "What's ironic," Alexandra said, "is that Mother named her Wren because as a newborn she reminded Mother of a shy bird.2000, Rebecca Wade, A Wanted Woman, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry wren
  • This is precisely how a newborn democracy gets "Weimarized."1995, Alexander Yanov, Weimar Russia: And what We Can Do about it, page 19. From the entry Weimarize
  • The night I met the newborn vampires, I heard an ice-cream truck in the vicinity, its repetitive jingle playing loudly.1994, Christopher Pike [pen name; Kevin Christopher McFadden], The Last Vampire 2: Black Blood, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry ice-cream truck
  • Patients with Graves' disease infrequently have acropathy consisting of digital "drumstick" clubbing of fingers or toes and subperiosteal newborn formation.1992, Samuel L. Moschella, Harry J. Hurley, Dermatology - Volume 2, page 1591. From the entry acropathy
  • Each year, approximately a million pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of the newborn child.1988, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5890. From the entry stillbirth

Meaning of newborn

  1. adjective Recently born.
  2. adjective Born anew, reborn.
  3. noun A recently born baby.

Full definition of newborn

Questions about newborn in a sentence

How do you use newborn in a sentence?
Newborn is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The prince's newborn baby is fifth in line to the throne.”
What is a short sentence with newborn?
“How long was your newborn baby?”
What does newborn mean?
Newborn means recently born.

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