blessed event

Example Sentences

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For this blessed event to happen, we needed reproductive health care.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2024

For in this satire of mainstreamed queerness, presented by New Light Theater Project, two different couples anticipate a blessed event.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2017

The audience first meets Grover Horvath a few months after his birth, and it’s clear neither Hannah nor Marnie have been changed too much by the blessed event.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2017

They’re exactly what they sound like: Take a birthday cake, smash it into your hands and face, and record the blessed event for social media posterity.

From Washington Post • Jun. 9, 2016

For the next two weeks I whirled around the city going to doctors, taking vitamin shots and pills, buying clothes for the baby, and except for the rare moments alone, enjoying the imminent blessed event.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou