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

This wildly unexpected, blessed event received broad coverage at the time because Meyers spent around 11 minutes of the next day's broadcast of "Late Night with Seth Meyers" recapping the craziness.

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2023

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

Also, Laganja was sent packing after this number, so it is a twice blessed event.

From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 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