How to Use stillborn in a Sentence

stillborn

adjective
  • Not long into my doula work, my client and best friend gave birth to her stillborn daughter.
    — al.com, 2 July 2019
  • One touch, and Lorraine is giving birth to a stillborn Judy.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Nearly two decades prior, Tome gave birth to a stillborn boy out of wedlock.
    — H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Dubbed Ata, the skeleton belong to a girl who was stillborn or died just after birth.
    — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The subject of stillborn babies takes people out of their comfort zone.
    — Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 8 Dec. 2019
  • The couple had three children, and another son who was stillborn.
    — Max Foster, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • About 7,400 babies were stillborn or died within the first week of life.
    — New York Times, 9 May 2018
  • Hawaii’s creation myth says that two gods had a stillborn baby, who was buried and grew into a kalo, or taro, plant.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Richardson’s attorneys have said the baby was stillborn and that the then-teen was sad and frightened.
    — Dan Sewell, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2019
  • The Mayo staff prepared Sam and Megan for the fact their baby could be stillborn.
    — Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Even the ordinary handling of a stillborn baby can allow air to enter the lungs.
    — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2023
  • No charges were filed in the latter case as the woman told investigators the girl was stillborn.
    — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Ellen died giving birth to the couple’s fourth child, Robert Fraser, who was stillborn.
    — Emma Dibdin, ELLE, 16 June 2023
  • Rachel Foran’s child, Eoin Francis, was stillborn at 41 weeks and two days.
    — Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
  • The little boy, who weighed a bit more than two pounds according to the autopsy report, was stillborn.
    — al, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Qing Yuan made his way to the shower, thinking again of the woman who had died of dystocia, her boy stillborn, dead.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Jesse Garon, however, was stillborn, leaving Elvis to grow up as an only child.
    — Bob Mehr, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Of the 51 total births at the sanctuary, 16 baby macaques died or were stillborn.
    — National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Around two in five sets of craniopagus twins are stillborn or die during labor, while a third more do not survive the first 24 hours.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 16 July 2019
  • Maroon's memories of her stillborn daughter, rosy and warm, are fogged by the exhaustion of her long labor.
    — Andrea Lucia, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The film follows Jess and Max after their son is stillborn at 24 weeks of pregnancy.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
  • In 2017, Morgan not only lost her husband but also had a child who was stillborn.
    — Kaitlyn Schwers, kansascity, 13 Feb. 2018
  • If a smaller cow is bred with a bull that might produce a large calf, that calf is at risk of being stillborn while also endangering the mother.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Over the years, about two dozen polar bears have lived or been born at Portland's zoo (though six were cubs who were stillborn, or died within a few days of their birth).
    — Grant Butler, OregonLive.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The girl’s father had called 911 and reported that a newborn baby was not breathing and had been stillborn.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Cillíní were reserved for babies who were stillborn, miscarried, or died at birth without having been baptized.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Wren delivered her stillborn son on May 24, 2020.
    — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The baby's mother had given birth to twins on November 30 but the girl was declared stillborn.
    — Sugam Pokharel, CNN, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Sheila Smith, an 84-year-old great-grandmother, and a stillborn baby named Logan were among those killed.
    — Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 13 June 2018
  • Tula wants the best for the boy who will soon be named Desmond Hart, even if that means giving him away and claiming the worker’s stillborn child as her own.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2024

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