How to Use day care in a Sentence

day care

noun
  • She left work early to pick up her son from day care.
  • Rodriguez had been able to open the new day care with the help of a state grant.
    — Lauren Hilgers, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Smith has two young children, and their day care had been closed for a while now.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Doggy day care, meanwhile, is a thing of the past.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Many home day care centers have already had to close their doors.
    — cleveland, 18 July 2023
  • Someone has to send a sitter home or pick up the kids from day care.
    — Laura Vanderkam, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2020
  • Her day care business was also gone.
    — Dian Zhang, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Brazil has seen at least one past attack on a day care center, too.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Except now your day care is closed, and there may not be summer camp.
    — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 9 May 2020
  • An alarm woke her up, reminding her to pick up her child from day care.
    — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2024
  • It has not yet been determined whether staff at the day care will be charged.
    — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Most schools and day care centers have guidelines on when to keep a child at home.
    — Libby Richards, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Pixie sits alone in the corner at the doggy day care.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Wilson runs the day care from her Houston home.
    — Mike Stunson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Aug. 2025
  • His cousin, Asean, was born in the same month and went to the same day care center.
    — Ryn Jirenuwat, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The day care is located at the end of a driveway off a cul-de-sac.
    — Rob Gillies, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
  • This time around Francona did it with a roster straight out of day care.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Bullets hit his car and the day care, both of which had children inside.
    — David Harris, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The video asserts that the day care is always empty.
    — Conor Wight, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025
  • My wife doesn’t work and tries to run a day care that is mildly successful.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Twin Cities, 11 July 2019
  • Make sure your child’s school or day care has a backup pickup person.
    — Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Kids get sick; day cares open and close; jobs are inflexible.
    — Lauren Hilgers, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Skip the fancy stroller, new parents want cash for down payments and day care.
    — Brianna Crane, Axios, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Critics say that will harm children and shutter day cares.
    — Rick Rojas Emily Cochrane Koba Ryckewaert Tyler Pager, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • Autism fraud, day care fraud, Medicaid fraud, food fraud.
    — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Workers in small, home day care centers have borne the brunt of those closures.
    — Sonja Sharp, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Pattikakes', a day care in Tewksbury for two decades, has shut down.
    — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Skip the fancy stroller — more new parents want cash for down payments and day care.
    — Brianna Crane, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The coronavirus forced Gaines to shut the day care, and her temp work dried up.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Marin’s mother was able to enroll her daughter in full-time day care at eleven months.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025

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