How to Use single parent in a Sentence

single parent

noun
  • Callie spent the first few years of her son’s life as a single parent.
    — Carolyn Highland, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2024
  • My mom raised us as a single parent, but my mom’s very proud and happy for me.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 June 2025
  • Most mammals grow up in single parent homes.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Feb. 2026
  • What does health mean for a single parent trying to get by with little money?
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 17 July 2023
  • Having to become a single parent with a young baby was very hard.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Don’t let being a single parent prevent you from doing the same with your kids.
    — Jill Robi, Parents, 18 May 2024
  • One man loved his father, who had brought up three kids as single parent after his wife had died of cancer.
    — Robin Stern and Marc Brackett, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2023
  • Duncan struggled as a single parent to keep up with wealthy peers who often sent their kids to school with sushi.
    — Rina Raphael, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Add a child to the mix, and that single parent needs to earn more than $41 an hour just to stay above water.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • His mom was a single parent struggling to raise three boys by herself in a rough neighborhood.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2024
  • That is an enormous amount of work in those first two years, especially as a single parent.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Their friend and single parent needed money to move, so hoffman ran a fundraiser from their home.
    — Timmy Broderick, STAT, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Especially when that someone is a single parent with a full-time job.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Thurman, who carried the full load of a single parent, loved being a mother.
    — Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Every single parent around the world has heard every single song a million times.
    — Vanity Fair, 12 Mar. 2026
  • For Quattlebaum, who is a single parent, this has been the largest expense.
    — Nayanika Guha, Parents, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Being a single parent is probably one of the hardest jobs a person can have.
    — Sarah Bregel, Parents, 28 Oct. 2025
  • In the 1960s, a female chemist goes on to be a single parent, then a celebrity chef.
    — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • In the 1960s, a female chemist goes on to be a single parent, then a celebrity chef.
    — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Jim described himself as a lifelong car geek, but his schoolteacher mother was a single parent.
    — Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • As a single parent, Mendoza is working to try to put his two daughters through college.
    — Rob Wile, NBC news, 15 June 2025
  • That was about a woman who was divorced and a single parent in a small New Hampshire town.
    — Peter Larsen, Orange County Register, 20 June 2024
  • Robinson, who works with at-risk youths, has been a single parent with a no-excuses attitude.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2024
  • In some cases, a single parent's complaint can lead to a book disappearing from school shelves.
    — Justine McDaniel, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
  • In some cases, a single parent’s complaint can lead to a book disappearing from school shelves.
    — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 3 June 2023
  • And dad was forced to be a full-time single parent of two, including Kyrie’s sister Asia.
    — Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 June 2024
  • The demands of grief and life overwhelmed me as a young widow, just 39 years old, and newly single parent.
    — Charlotte Maya, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024
  • That’s one-tenth of the median income for a married couple and more than one-third of the income of a single parent.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Without the subsidies, the cost of child care for Rhodes would exceed her income as a single parent.
    — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • His mother, a single parent of nine, struggled with alcoholism, leaving him to take on the role of provider for his siblings.
    — David Begnaud, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2023

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