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

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

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

Leaving Zuraiq and his mother to rest, we watched as Father buried the afterbirth in the backyard.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat