afterbirth

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Apr. 16, 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

During the three days I spend there, it smells strongly of afterbirth and the floor is flecked with blood and dirt.

From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2017

The first feminist interpretation of Frankenstein was by Ellen Moers, who read Shelley's novel as a sublimated afterbirth, says Diane Hoeveler, from Marquette University in Wisconsin, US.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2011

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