How to Use midwife in a Sentence

midwife

1 of 2 noun
  • The midwife came, cloaked in red.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • Do people hire midwives for their dogs now?
    — David Sedaris may 3, CBS News, 3 May 2026
  • If anyone needs a midwife, I prob wouldn't hire gator.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
  • At that time, one of the wards became staffed only with midwives.
    — Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Mangroves are the midwives of vast swaths of marine life.
    — John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026
  • What all of that would mean for the midwives of Poplar, only time will tell.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The baby’s heart rate was slowing, her midwife said.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 26 Feb. 2026
  • With the help of a midwife, Newton gave birth to her daughter at home.
    — Audrey Schmidt, Peoplemag, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Real midwives and doctors were ever present on set for some of the more gory scenes.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Also, her midwife wasn’t on shift that day so was not on hand at the hospital.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The midwife was not taking the blood pressure of the patient.
    — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The midwife gave her three lifesaving breaths on my chest, and my husband was there.
    — Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
  • Trojacek had just checked in with her midwife, who told her labor could begin soon.
    — Zara Amaechi, Dallas Morning News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The doula is the midwife's son, which makes for all kinds of drama—and comedy.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 26 June 2022
  • Tell your husband, the midwife had said, Tell him to be careful from now on.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • But at home with her doula and midwife, Hosk worked through it with massage and pushing.
    — Carrie Battan, ELLE, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The physicians condemned the midwives in the name of science.
    — Hillary Brenhouse, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Licensed midwives also provide home birth care in many states.
    — Amanda Krupa, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
  • That storyboard serves as a midwife.
    — Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • These healthy children were an argument for a midwife’s skills.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • She is described as a strong woman with good intuition who works as a midwife.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The midwife would place a long wooden tube on my belly every now and again and listen.
    — Literary Hub, 19 June 2026
  • Middle- and upper-class women began to pre-book male midwives.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • Goldberg appears early in the film as a midwife who helps a young Celie give birth.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The blacksmith and midwife also taught Eli and Leah the quilt codes.
    — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Her midwives also taught her that there are different pathways to safe births.
    — Adrienne Farr, Parents, 24 Nov. 2025
  • And then the second midwife arrived just after the head had arrived.
    — Effie Orfanides, Peoplemag, 8 May 2023
  • Without it, midwife Naomi Thomas wouldn’t be able to scrub-in.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Apr. 2022
  • More than one family sought out a midwife to coach a pregnant woman through labor.
    — Michael D. Regan, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Health care providers such as midwives and ob-gyns have a role in educating their patients.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 22 Feb. 2023

midwife

2 of 2 verb
  • Again and again, what seems like uniform storytelling is revealed to be an assemblage of fragments, born from defeat and midwifed by division.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • India’s private sector still bears the stigma of having been midwifed under the license raj, an era in which corruption was pervasive.
    — Arvind Subramanian, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Iraq became proof that the model would work across the region, with Hezbollah serially midwifing the proxies that Iran sired.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 and in the process midwifed Hezbollah, now one of its great enemies.
    — Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
  • In retrospect, midwifing Panera’s birth looks like a happy heroic tale of breakthroughs and innovations.
    — Ron Shaich, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • In recent days, amid a rising impeachment furor, the White House has scrambled to midwife a compromise between ethanol advocates and the oil industry.
    — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The idea of the market as a communion of souls was once the lingua franca of European culture, helping to midwife the birth of economics from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries.
    — Corey Robin, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2022
  • But the American leaders who midwifed the UN as World War II was still raging were somber realists, not utopians.
    — Andreas Kluth, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • At that time, millions of Iraqis joined the protests and demanded the downfall of a corrupt political system midwifed by Beltway hawks and neoconservative ideologues, which has ended up beholden to the mullahs of Iran.
    — Nabil Salih, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
  • At the summit, Putin also sought to revive the Russia-India-China trilateral forum, that, in an earlier era, helped midwife BRICS and the SCO and gave China, India, and Russia an arena to coordinate on multilateralism and trade.
    — Shyam Saran, Time, 10 Sep. 2025

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