How to Use father in a Sentence

father

1 of 2 noun
  • He has been like a father to me.
  • He's the father of three small children.
  • He was a father to me after my own father died.
  • He became a father when he was 30.
  • Not like me and not like your father.
    — Han Ong, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Tito played and my father was amazed.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026
  • If the father was there, that was a point.
    — Laura Vazquez, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Her father picked her up and brought her home.
    — City News Service, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Then, his father pulled a milk crate up to a hedge.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
  • On the same land where his father had been born and grown up.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • Since then, his father has made the search for a way of life.
    — Karen Esquivel, CNN Money, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Not much is known about Gu's father.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Not much is known about Gu's father.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Bert was two years younger than my father James.
    — Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Heard was a baby when his father was shot and killed.
    — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
  • One day my father came home and found a string broken.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026
  • But my father had a thing for justice.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • His mother is alive, but his father is dead.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The flowers were made by a father-and-son duo.
    — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • His father died of heart failure about a year ago.
    — Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • My father thought that was all his daughters were good for.
    — David Sedaris, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • That gave little away about who the father could be.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • And my father would have this strict curfew.
    — NBC news, 1 Feb. 2026
  • His father had moved away, and none of us had ever met him.
    — Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The father of five knows how quickly that time moves.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • The father died and the son was injured.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2026
  • His father just wanted his son to do well in school, like mine.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
  • His father, who is now deceased, spent time in prison.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Apr. 2026
  • That didn’t change in the days after his father’s death.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Shiffrin’s father cared more about good turns than winning races.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2026

father

2 of 2 verb
  • He was praised for fathering a plan to improve the city's schools.
  • Paul Revere somehow found room in his small house for the large family he had fathered.
  • The youngest is a baby and is my first grandchild fathered by my son.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Why would Charley Pride want to father a child out of wedlock?
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 9 June 2021
  • The younger child, in particular, didn’t want to let her father out of her sight.
    — Molly Parker, ProPublica, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Spike has fathered three other calves at other zoos but none survived, the zoo said.
    — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
  • On the other hand, a poor boy may not father any children while a poor girl is more likely to.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Skye never played with because my brother couldn’t father them.
    — Donna Britt, Washington Post, 26 June 2020
  • Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Her aunt has no idea that her late husband fathered a child 60 years ago while they were married.
    — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Rumors that Drake secretly fathered a son have been swirling around for a long time.
    — refinery29.com, 29 June 2018
  • There are no figures about the number of children fathered by Catholic priests.
    — Nicole Winfield, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
  • Musk is believed to have fathered at least 14 children with four women.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
  • An ex shows up claiming Jorge fathered her 10-year-old daughter.
    — Melody Chiu, PEOPLE.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Their latest babies were both fathered by first-time dad, Nadaya.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • Marcus, the youngest, worked at the hospital and fathered six children.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2019
  • To the relief of family and fans, Quaid went on to father four children.
    — David Segal Paulo Nunes Dos Santos, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Some girls were forced to marry their captors, and many had children fathered by the militants.
    — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2018
  • All three litters were fathered by a male Amur leopard named Oskar.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Wade also fathered another child with a third woman.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026
  • Tom also fathered five children with his first wife, Lyn Heslop.
    — Emily Davies, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2018
  • For 26 years, Mudd never told a soul about the Australian man who fathered her child.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Just two males had fathered more than half the calves born to the southern residents since 1990.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Dixon was a defender of slavery who went on to father a child with a Black woman born into slavery.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • That’s the crisis of masculinity, that men are under-fathered.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Some in the family say part of the money came from a white man who fathered one of Collier’s ancestors.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2020
  • Aspen is her mother Alika’s first calf, and is the third calf fathered by a giraffe named Aiden, the zoo said.
    — Kendrick Calfee january 9, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Two of the women, who have children fathered by the same man, began to argue and planned to return to the apartment complex to fight.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Steve was the second of Bob's children, as the painter had previously fathered a child as a teenager.
    — Stephanie Kaloi, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Tian Tian, a male giant panda at the National Zoo, has fathered all of her cubs.
    — Rebecca Bratek, CBS News, 5 July 2018

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