BIRTH in a Sentence

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166 example sentences for BIRTH, such as:
1. Please give your name, address and date of birth.
2. She's Italian by birth but is now an Australian citizen.
3. But the birth of Hugh revived the transcendental emotion.
4. She had hardly recovered from the birth of her last baby.
5. Her mother had just given birth to another child, her fifth.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of BIRTH
birth
 v.  cause to be born
 n.  the process of giving birth
Classic Sentence: (114 in 8 pages)
1  As always, she wondered how her loud, insensitive father had managed to marry a woman like her mother, for never were two people further apart in birth, breeding and habits of mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Though she recovered physically from Wade's birth in a disgracefully short time, mentally she was dazed and sick.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  In the nine years before Scarlett was born, the town had been called, first, Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until the year of Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Often when newly married couples went on the usual round of honeymoon visits, they lingered in some pleasant home until the birth of their second child.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  It all came back to her, the sickeningly hot day of the baby's birth, the agony of fear, the flight and Rhett's desertion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  Melanie hotly defended him, saying that anyone who had Will's kind heart and thoughtfulness of others was of gentle birth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  She had been crawling with fear, rotten with fear, terrified by the Yankees, terrified by the approaching birth of Beau.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  Little Beau had cost her her health, and the hard work she had done at Tara since his birth had taken further toll of her strength.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  Scarlett had cast her lot with the enemy and, whatever her birth and family connections, she was now in the category of a turncoat, a nigger lover, a traitor, a Republican-- and a Scallawag.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
10  Melanie came out of Scarlett's room, weary from the strain but happy to tears at the birth of Scarlett's daughter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
11  She read in the records of the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers that only sixty years ago, not so far back as the birth of her own father, four cabins had composed Gopher Prairie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  He speaks a vulgar, common, incorrect German of life and death and birth and the soil.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  The most considerable event of the two years after the birth of Hugh occurred when Vida Sherwin resigned from the high school and was married.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
14  But the birth of Hugh revived the transcendental emotion.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  Nor will it at all detract from him, dramatically regarded, if either by birth or other circumstances, he have what seems a half wilful overruling morbidness at the bottom of his nature.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  Please give your name, address and date of birth.
2  Bevin is now an adult and has re-lived her birth experience under hypnosis.
3  Elaine and Ian Gibson proudly announce the birth of their son, John Maurice.
4  We should weep for men at their birth and not a t their death.
5  She had hardly recovered from the birth of her last baby.
6  The average weight of a baby at birth is just over seven pounds.
7  Low birth weight may be caused by external factors , such as smoking during pregnancy.
8  We feature an exclusive on the mothers whose babies were swapped at birth.
9  He had been circumcised within eight days of birth as required by Jewish law.
10  Between the eighth week of development and birth a human embryo is called a foetus.
11  The girl was aphasic because of brain damage suffered during a difficult birth.
12  The birth of her son was a minor interruption to her career.
13  Her mother had just given birth to another child, her fifth.
14  She's Italian by birth but is now an Australian citizen.
15  It has sown confusion and anxiety among researchers by giving birth to the ambiguous concept of sensitive but unclassified research.