How to Use childless in a Sentence

childless

adjective
  • Some en famille, and some are childless.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2026
  • Swift is still childless – and, of course, a proud cat mom.
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Routine was the ghost of our childless past.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
  • But not all childless people are spenders.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
  • End of the ‘childless cat lady’?
    — Robert Abitbol, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
  • How many kids — and a lot of their parents or childless Disney adults — wouldn’t like the sound of that?
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Boyd was single, and Wheeler was known to be married but childless.
    — Nell Freudenberger, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • This person who continued to harass her friend about being childless is not a friend.
    — Matthew Impelli, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • When Denise was killed that fall Sunday in 1963, they were left childless again.
    — John Archibald, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Meat Suit begins with a sketch in which three childless friends await a fourth, who’s recently given birth, at a café.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Just as the number of childless Americans is on the rise, so is estrangement.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
  • As part of a childless couple himself, Zigmont saw a gap that needed filling.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Swift will either ignore the noise as usual, or smile at the absurdity as a secure, proud childless cat lady.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • That's very appealing to childless adults who're looking for a way to recapture or keep alive that feeling of delight and comfort.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • At the same time, proportions of childless women in lower age groups have increased, according to the bureau.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • When Jana opts to go and help her daughter, Nikola, like other older men from the village, is left wifeless and childless.
    — Alissa Simon, Variety, 4 Feb. 2026
  • And although childless Americans don’t have kids to worry about, many of them have pets that need care if something happens to them, experts said.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
  • And some experts have taken it a step further and analyzed that based on this data, childless and spouseless women will be happier from it.
    — Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Peg’s neighbor Ryan, a troubled young man recently released from jail, has become like a surrogate son to the childless Peg.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Audrey, the single and childless and PhD-less product of a stable but unhappy home, has fallen short of the life planned out for her by her parents.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
  • After Cambyses died childless, various factions vied for the Persian throne.
    — Debbie Felton, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2025
  • During the campaign, opponents criticized her for being unmarried and childless.
    — Margaret Barthel, NPR, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Like everyone, childless Americans should save enough for retirement and especially long-term care, experts said.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
  • At her home day care, Rodriguez employs a group of teachers and caretakers who are, for the most part, either in their twenties and childless or else parents with at least one child enrolled in the day care.
    — Lauren Hilgers, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • At her home day care, Rodriguez employs a group of teachers and caretakers who are, for the most part, either in their twenties and childless or else parents with at least one child enrolled in the day care.
    — Lauren Hilgers, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Without a next generation in line, who will take care of these childless Americans, ensure their dying wishes are fulfilled and oversee where their assets will go after death?
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The childless couple in the West Danish town of Varde had more right to a child than the single mother in the Korean port city of Incheon.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Another found that women who remained childless after a fertility evaluation had more than a twofold higher risk of dying by suicide than those who eventually did have a child.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Everyone loves to offer parenting advice, especially grandparents and even the childless.
    — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 3 Mar. 2026
  • In actuality, though, Datini was not childless, merely heirless.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2025

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