afterbirth

Example Sentences

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He showed me one young lamb barely an hour old, its mother still licking the afterbirth off.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2024

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 • May 12, 2022

“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 • Dec. 10, 2021

She held on to this beautiful thought and the sound of her daughter snuffling as the pains of expelling the afterbirth came.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2018

I called the grandmother, who had been taking care of the boy, to get me blankets and see to the afterbirth.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson