afterbirth

Example Sentences

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For once, Deborah feels what it's like to be upstaged, whether by her ego, her prejudices, or, at a clarifying low point, an animal's afterbirth.

From Salon

I could almost taste the dough, yeasty and full like afterbirth.

From Salon

“It was years later,” says Reed-Allen now living in Urbana, Md., “when I realized afterbirth had been left inside me and that I could have died.”

From Washington Post

They kept the exhausted Letay awake because of their belief that otherwise the afterbirth would fall back into her.

From Seattle Times

Even more than that, if he’s going around clicking these miserable lumps of hairy afterbirth out of existence, then he might actually qualify as the protagonist of Cats.

From The Guardian