mother
Frequently Asked Questions
- I’ve always wanted to be a mother.
- You should really listen to Mother—she has your best interests in mind.
- It’s just her nature to try to mother anyone who looks like they need help.
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, Chris’ mother was considering downsizing and had offered her children the opportunity to buy the house she and her husband had built.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Maha Kamal, a Denver family lawyer, joined a custody case on behalf of a mother after the children’s father began peppering the court with filings that accused her of breaking the judge’s orders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
His mother, who had not seen him for a decade, told Bushby: “Where have you been?”
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
At 6, Raman and her mother left for the United States on a Pan Am flight, meeting her father who was already here studying engineering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
“Would you be willing to take a Jewish mother and her baby into your home? They will almost certainly be arrested otherwise.”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Two other streaming series, “Crystal Lake” on Peacock and “Carrie” on Prime Video, place two of the horror genre’s most famous scary mothers in new contexts.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
Last month, the New York Times revealed that Marshall, a former OB-GYN, had sued hundreds of patients over unpaid bills, including new mothers.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026
Another mother, Seanan Martin, said removing a service was not the answer and that the safety of mothers, babies and staff should be the priority.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
But she and other doctors stress to new mothers that breast-feeding helps women lose pregnancy weight as well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
They put blue bands on the birds’ legs and wrote down the numbers so Jack could remember the birds’ birthdays and who their mothers and fathers were.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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Playing a childless, vain, pitch-perfect vision of Los Angeles’ wickedness in “Maps to the Stars,” Julianne Moore mothered so hard she almost separated California right down the San Andreas fault line.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
Missing being mothered has driven her to cultivate her Spanish skills, after a college counselor hints that “focusing on a new syntax of any kind could become an escape hatch into new habits of mind.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023
"But she also knew that mother is a verb as well as a noun and mothered so many others along the way who needed love and support throughout her life," she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2022
Thus has it been since an ailing William Hartnell, who played the First Doctor, transformed into Patrick Troughton, Doctor Two, in 1966 — an invention mothered by necessity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
The desert has mothered magic things before this.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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While mothering her two teenagers, one of them newly identifies as nonbinary — “It was Laurel’s job to not make a big deal about this” — she obsesses about her husband’s questionable fidelity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Would my mothering improve before the baby was born?
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
“Kin,” set in the segregated South in the 1950s and ’60s, focuses on the crucial importance of mothering, sisterhood and close female friendships in young women’s lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Reflecting on her character's journey in the film, Adams explained: "Through her parenting - through her mothering - she got in touch with something bigger and something primal."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024
Instead, she said to me out of the blue, “You don’t get much mothering, do you?”
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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