How to Use infanticide in a Sentence

infanticide

noun
  • In years of abundance, there were surges in births; in years of famine, infanticides.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • In more than half of the nests, infanticide didn’t occur when a female took a new mate.
    — Byvirginia Morell, science.org, 6 May 2024
  • Who doesn't love a little didactic infanticide with their hot dog binge?
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 4 July 2019
  • The rise in infanticide also occurs before the pine cones have even sprouted.
    — Jessica Haines, National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2018
  • In chimpanzees and other primates that kill each other, infanticide is the most common form of killing.
    — National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2016
  • The work is the first to show that adoption, like infanticide, can lead to long-term reproductive success.
    — Byvirginia Morell, science.org, 6 May 2024
  • To the author’s chagrin, infanticide was also borne out by research.
    — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 1 June 2017
  • Anyway, Lillith hasn’t told anyone about her infanticide and is cradling a creepy doll in Adam’s place.
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Scattered reports of infanticide among primates were later borne out by fieldwork.
    — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 6 May 2022
  • Infanticide is common among chimpanzees, but unheard-of among bonobos.
    — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2016
  • This is a pitch-black book, with infanticide, suicide, rape and any number of other dark subjects playing a prominent part.
    — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 2 May 2018
  • When proven wrong on this first point, Democrats pivot to the assertion that laws already exist to prevent infanticide.
    — The Editors, National Review, 19 Feb. 2020
  • For Trivedi, this is a problem begins with female infanticide.
    — Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2015
  • There was once a custom of infanticide in certain regions of Japan, practiced when the family had too many children to feed.
    — Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Safe haven laws were implemented to address the issues of child abandonment and infanticide.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 3 July 2024
  • Females commit infanticide, though the reasons are not perfectly clear.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • Among land mammals, infanticide occurs among primates and rodents, the report noted.
    — Author: Amy B Wang, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The root cause of the murder of girls (gendercide), whether through feticide or infanticide, is the hideously distorted view of a girl’s value.
    — Atlanta Life, ajc, 26 May 2017
  • Republicans have been using this for years to argue that Democrats support infanticide.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Venice prizewinner centers around a real-life infanticide court case in which the mother, a doctoral student, claims sorcery as the culprit.
    — Shalini Dore, Variety, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Chimpanzee mothers often remove themselves from the group to give birth, which protects their babies from the infanticides that are sadly frequent in this species.
    — Susana Monsó, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Only the chance discovery of the newborn by a milkman saved him from the infanticide that befell other such unwanted babies.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Support for infanticide is becoming respectable in the United States as well.
    — Wesley J. Smith, National Review, 19 Nov. 2019
  • There is no reference to infanticide, but La Llorona is portrayed as a ghost after being murdered by her husband.
    — Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • She was convicted in Williamson County of infanticide and sentenced to 99 years in prison for killing Chelsea.
    — Ralph Ellis, Randi Kaye and Dakin Andone, CNN, 26 May 2017
  • To the Romans’ surprise, the Egyptians didn’t have a common practice of infanticide of unwanted girls.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2022
  • Public shame, such as that of Laurence, is thereby invested with a certain nobility; infanticide is raised to the level of myth.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The idea behind safe haven laws was to stop maternal infanticide, the extraordinarily rare, headline-grabbing story of a newborn found in a garbage can.
    — Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
  • The team found that 65 percent of these species are known to commit infanticide, compared to just 34 percent in species whose babies have the same coat colors as their parents.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Jatory Evans hanged himself inside his jail cell Wednesday while awaiting trial of three counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree infanticide.
    — Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 30 Sep. 2017

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