How to Use infant in a Sentence

infant

1 of 2 noun
  • He showed us a picture of his infant daughter.
  • Among the dead were two infants.
    — Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Her infant child was with her, but was not hurt.
    — Steffanie Dupree, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • At least one was an infant, asleep in the back seat.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • And there were younger kids at the time — not infants, but teenagers.
    — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 24 Sep. 2025
  • And there were younger kids at the time — not infants, but teenagers.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • An infant in a car seat in the truck was not injured.
    — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The infant must be unharmed and safe when placed in the box.
    — Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The sweet snap showed her being held by her mom as an infant.
    — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
  • No one has yet been charged with the infant's murder.
    — Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • One of those infants was our daughter.
    — Vaughan Bagley, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Among the dead children were two infants.
    — Arkansas Online, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Among the dead children were two infants.
    — Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Their infant son died on impact.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
  • These also come with fold-over scratch mitts for infants, as a bonus.
    — Devonne Goode, Parents, 7 Apr. 2026
  • What’s required of us, if we’re charged with that infant’s care?
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • The infant’s death caught neighbors off guard.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Once they were cast, the twins gave the crew a crash course on working with infants.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • In Texas, the infant must be younger than 60 days.
    — Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Fifteen of them were younger than 5 years old, and four were infants.
    — Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
  • He was baptized as Catholic as an infant.
    — Annie Selak, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2026
  • An infant no older than 3 months.
    — Uwa Ede-Osifo, Dallas Morning News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • In the snap, Riley was all smiles as the infant looked up at him.
    — Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Their son is a toddler and daughter is an infant.
    — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
  • That averages out to about one adult male and two infants per year.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
  • About a third of those infants die before their first birthday.
    — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The infants had slipped through a gap between the mattress and a side rail.
    — Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 7 May 2026
  • As a lap infant, her airline ticket was free.
    — Lara Kramer, AFAR Media, 29 Aug. 2025
  • On an infant’s first day of life, its stomach is about the size of a cherry.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The infants listened to two kinds of audio.
    — Clarissa Brincat, Parents, 29 Jan. 2026

infant

2 of 2 adjective
  • She is an infant teacher.
  • This week, there was little infant milk to be found in stores around Boston.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
  • Here’s what to know about the outbreak and infant botulism.
    — CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
  • One was less than a month old, an infant girl from Fairfield County.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Angel is described as an infant girl with blue eyes and dark-colored hair with a reddish tint.
    — Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 24 June 2021
  • The infant mortality rate for black babies is three times as high.
    — Anna Claire Vollers, AL.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Forty years earlier, Biden’s wife and infant daughter had been killed in a car crash.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The lab is the only one in the world using an infant metabolic chamber.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 12 June 2022
  • So birth testing adds a step to most infant diagnosis programs.
    — Gbolahan Ajibola, The Conversation, 27 Nov. 2019
  • This racial gap has continued to widen despite the improvement in the overall infant death rate in our area.
    — Brie Zeltner, cleveland.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Zeno recalled infant walkers due to fall and entrapment hazards.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 19 Feb. 2022
  • For years the state has been trying to combat the infant mortality rate, one of the highest in the nation.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Tom was predeceased in death by his parents and infant brother, Edmond.
    — courant.com, 10 June 2019
  • There was an increase in infant mortality in poor areas of 20 states.
    — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 7 June 2017
  • About a minute into the video, a man can be seen holding an infant girl in his arms and placing her on the porch outside the residence's front door.
    — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Officials said the project will also aim to improve maternal and infant health outcomes.
    — Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Many of them are also important during the fetal and infant stages of brain development.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2018
  • There are, of course, also infant head injuries that occur because of the intentional actions of adults.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2022
  • High blood pressure raises the risk of complications such as stroke, kidney failure, and stillborn or infant death.
    — Dr. Tara Narula, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Besides his parents, he was predeceased by his brother Michael Petrozzi and an infant brother at birth.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Among the models available are infant, convertible, and boosters for kids from newborns to 100 pounds.
    — Laura Sky Brown, Car and Driver, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Ken was predeceased by his mother Eleanor and infant sister, Kathy Jo Stafford.
    — courant.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • With no mother to watch out for them, infant mortality of pups under one year skyrockets to around 90 percent.
    — Elaina Zachos, National Geographic, 16 May 2018
  • Friends of a family who lost an infant girl and their home to a powerful storm in Birmingham are asking for help for that family.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 23 July 2022
  • Véronique Dufour is the deputy chief physician of the Paris maternal and infant protection center.
    — Alex Whiting, CNN, 3 July 2019
  • Sixty percent of Guatemalans are poor, the bank says, while maternal and infant mortality rates are among the highest in the region.
    — Sonia Perez D., SFChronicle.com, 13 July 2019
  • The superstore has recalled infant rompers from Cloud Island and a swimsuit from Cat & Jack.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2020
  • In 1983, a baboon heart was transplanted into an infant girl known as Baby Faye.
    — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Lock arrived in Geneva in May, 1557, along with her son, Henry; her infant daughter; and her maid.
    — Jamie Quatro, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Negron was for a time married to Julia Negron, the younger Oakley's mother, and helped raise infant Berry Jr.
    — CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026

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