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How to use paternity in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Paternity means fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father. Example: “The author asserted her right to paternity on the book's copyright page.”

Examples of paternity by meaning

nounAuthorship.

  • The author asserted her right to paternity on the book's copyright page.

More sentences with paternity

  • Kelly is on mat leave til Thursday, then her husband starts paternity leave.From the entry mat leave
  • 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
  • The bridegroom, 75, retired as a consulting immunohematologist in Manhattan, serving as an expert witness in paternity cases.2007 May 20, “Christine Szretter, Allen Gelb”, in New York Times. From the entry immunohematologist
  • This conversation came up while we were disscussing a paternity lawsuit that Clark Gable, the moviestar, had had filed against him.1991, LA Law Library, California, Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District), Records and Briefs, page 690. From the entry moviestar
  • Aiken's paternity was accomplished via artificial insemination, so he's still on the market (though he plans to be involved in the baby's life, friends say).2008 May 31, “The Most Unlikely Dads of the Year”, in Newsweek. From the entry claymate
  • The three lured him to their home to kill him for dishonoring their family by filing a paternity suit in family court.1998 January 26, “Defense Says Blood Feud, Not Murder, Was Involved”, in The New York Times. From the entry dishonor
  • If the keepers of the sacred corral discovered paternity in their stock breeding, then that knowledge would have been seen as numinous, awe-ful, and unconsciously unsettling.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry awful
  • Women predominate not only, I think, because of matriarchal considerations, or claims to divine paternity, but also because Boiotian tradition leans in every way toward the distaff side.1973, Richmond Lattimore, Hesiod, page 9. From the entry distaff
  • Henderson, beginning a mini-run in the team with David de Gea on paternity leave, threw out to the left flank and Shaw had only one thought – to rumble upfield.2021 March 7, David Hytner, “Manchester United catch City cold as Fernandes and Shaw end winning run”, in The Guardian. From the entry rumble

Meaning of paternity

  1. noun Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
  2. noun Parental descent from a father.
  3. noun Legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child.

Full definition of paternity

Questions about paternity in a sentence

How do you use paternity in a sentence?
Paternity is used as a noun. For example: “The author asserted her right to paternity on the book's copyright page.”
What is a short sentence with paternity?
“The author asserted her right to paternity on the book's copyright page.”
What does paternity mean?
Paternity means fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paternity (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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