How to Use birth in a Sentence

birth

1 of 3 noun
  • He was present at the birth of his daughter.
  • We are witnessing the birth of a new era.
  • Please indicate your date of birth.
  • The hospital reported an increase in premature births.
  • This time, Agnes gives birth to twins.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • His wife was about to give birth to their third child.
    — Oriana Van Praag, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The common thread is not birth year.
    — Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • The birth dose was not removed.
    — Lauren Arikan, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Porter gave birth to six of the children.
    — Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
  • My second birth was still scary.
    — Sarah Hoover, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Aree Gearhart gave birth to Maple.
    — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The births of nieces and nephews.
    — Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Zachary was given just six months to live at birth.
    — Juli McDonald, CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • The king goes off to war, and the new queen gives birth to a son.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • His mind races back to a time in his country of birth.
    — Sara Sidner, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Krisan is due to give birth to a baby boy next month.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • From the girls’ birth, my son and their mother did not get along.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • One of those scenes is the birth of Claire Beauchamp.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Jean got up during the night to check on the mares that were ready to give birth.
    — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
  • That was an auspicious sign for a birth.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Later that evening, Rain gave birth to a healthy male calf.
    — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
  • The horror of my first birth melted away.
    — Sarah Hoover, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Lemon sharks, bull sharks, mako sharks and blue sharks are among those that give birth to live young.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
  • This was even less thinkable than giving birth to it.
    — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Venus gave us the birth of transit spectroscopy.
    — Big Think, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Girls and boys are equally social at birth.
    — Lise Eliot, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The falling in love, the wedding, the birth of the child.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Even their son's birth was a minefield of emotion.
    — CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Lessons learned from my first trip after giving birth to my son.
    — Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Elliot hadn’t been around other cows since birth.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 21 Apr. 2026

birth

2 of 3 verb
  • Alex climbs in the birthing pool with his wife and welcomes their child.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Black women had to birth the children of white men who raped them.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Ten years is a good amount of time to birth something into the world.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
  • In its wake, the black hole left behind a trail of young, hot blue stars birthed from gas.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Has Season 50 birthed a new era?
    — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 19 May 2026
  • One of the women had birthed a child who ended up in foster care.
    — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • All that alone time, for some, can birth a bought of creativity.
    — Pat McDonogh, The Courier-Journal, 12 May 2022
  • The iconic show also birthed a reboot of the same name and has a spinoff in the works.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2026
  • This is the only place the whales are known to birth and feed their young, scientists say.
    — courant.com, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Kids ages birth through grade five can pick up a game board at their library to begin playing.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 23 May 2022
  • Females birth about six litters of eight young on average per year.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The original show also birthed a reboot of the same name, and has a spinoff in the works.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Agnes will birth their first child, a daughter, alone in nature, clinging to tree branches.
    — Jocelyn Noveck, Boston Herald, 26 Nov. 2025
  • So far, the startup’s care teams have helped birth 1,500 babies.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Any challenge that arises can be seen as soil which can be used to birth something new, or foster growth.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 11 Dec. 2025
  • What was the experience of filming that birthing scene?
    — Samantha Highfill, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The scandal also birthed a Lifetime movie.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
  • If something goes wrong and if my baby's in danger, you guys are going to birth my baby.
    — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The women would gather in the bedroom, now made over into a birthing chamber and free of men.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • Many of the animals birthed there bring benefits to habitats far away.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • As the bubble expands, regions of dense, cold gas that can birth stars collect on its surface.
    — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Still, the success of the show birthed a whole franchise of superhero content.
    — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Before her jailhouse vision, Lee had birthed and lost four babies.
    — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Weir helped birth the new world, watched its ruination, and spent the autumn of his life rebuilding it.
    — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • There are no birthing hospitals in Clare County.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • In the Catholicism of my youth, a woman’s only role was to birth and raise more Catholics.
    — Clare Egan, Longreads, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Currer Bell, birthed for print, was effectively killed by it.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Or John Hurt, convulsively chest-birthing an alien?
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The move is a historic one that will birth yet another model for peacemaking.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Climate change does its damage in a lot of ways—birthing hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, and wildfires.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 12 Nov. 2025

birth

3 of 3 adjective
  • For a friend who loves wine, gift them this wine glass for their first post-birth drink.
    — Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 4 Aug. 2022
  • This was certainly a fear of mine, and post-birth, gravity has done its thing.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The idea is that vaginal estrogen could help ease common post-birth concerns like swelling and soreness.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Animals that skip their pre-birth workouts tend to emerge with bones and muscles that are weak and underdeveloped.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Luckily, Martine was coming the next morning for the final pre-birth checkup.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • Starbucks, for instance, last year sweetened the deal for its store employees, offering six weeks paid leave for all parents, not just birth mothers.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz at Work, 10 June 2019
  • Newborn sperm whales are negatively buoyant, making this post-birth support crucial to the calf’s survival.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2026
  • What troubles me most about the ruling party of Texas — and the voters who keep them in power — is their adherence to being pro-birth but not so much pro-life.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2021
  • But Jenkins says the judge at a pre-birth hearing was hesitant about setting a precedent by ruling that all three men's names could be on the birth certificate.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN, 6 Mar. 2021
  • The infant and his mother were then transported to a hospital for post-birth medical care, with both expected to make a full recovery.
    — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
  • That’s why the post-birth horror story of tennis icon Serena Williams resonated so deeply among Black women.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Nebraska case law prohibits second-parent adoption by an unmarried non-birth parent, according to the lawsuit.
    — NBC News, 6 Oct. 2021
  • If passed, a doctor would need to provide post-birth care for the infant, call for assistance from an emergency medical services provider and arrange for a transfer to a hospital.
    — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2021
  • For babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome, enduring withdrawal from pre-birth drugs in the mother's system, cuddling is part of the medical care.
    — Emily Woodruff, NOLA.com, 2 Jan. 2021
  • The idea that women cannot have any arena of choice — [from pregnancy to labor and delivery to post-birth] — is exclusively and almost always detrimental to women.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Dec. 2021
  • However, some states, like Wisconsin and New York, do have provisions that can result in fathers paying for pre-birth expenses.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Another program, Ramp Back, gives new parents the flexibility to work partial work hours for eight consecutive weeks post-birth or adoption.
    — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • In April, the singer/actress showcased her first postpartum workout on Instagram after being granted the all-clear to start exercising again post-birth.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 21 July 2021
  • Over 75 couples in Michigan who are in our exact same situation [received] pre-birth orders, which basically gives them legal rights to the baby before they're even born.
    — Rachel Burchfield, PEOPLE.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Klobuchar successfully lobbied for Minnesota to expand the minimum post-birth hospital stay to 48 hours, and it has since been relayed into a federal law.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
  • These fees typically cover a birth mother’s medical expenses, legal representation for adoptive and birth parents, court fees, social workers and more.
    — David Dodge, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Robyn has an emotional moment with Gizelle about her lack of motivation; Ashley joins the ladies for a post-birth getaway, bringing both some drama and her breast pump; Candiace hosts a whiskey tasting.
    — Anying Guo, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2021
  • With that in mind, many couples are now opting to take a break from the organizational overload in the form of a long-haul babymoon—a pre-birth couples vacation—as a way of spending those last special moments together as a family of two.
    — Joanna Carrigan, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 May 2023
  • As Wishnowsky, 29, recounted his life-changing weekend Thursday, he was asked if Shanahan exaggerated his pre-birth nerves for effect.
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The prospect of studying orangutans in Borneo was tantalizing to Knott, especially since orangutans have the longest inter-birth interval—the time between pregnancies—of any mammal.
    — Wudan Yan, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Non-essential retail reopened in June, followed by pubs and restaurants in July, but tight restrictions have remained in place limiting access to maternity services and post-birth visits by new fathers.
    — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2020
  • But a few states, including Wisconsin and New York, have provisions that can result in fathers being financially responsible for pre-birth expenses.
    — NBC News, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The babies' early arrival meant the Myers did not complete Michigan's requisite pre-birth order process in time, forcing them, because of the state's restrictive laws around surrogacy, to fight in court to legally be the twins' parents.
    — Rachel Burchfield, PEOPLE.com, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Piedmont Augusta began a similar program in April, offering orange and red silicon post-birth alert bracelets for mothers immediately after delivery.
    — Roni Robbins, AJC.com, 15 May 2026

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