childless

Example Sentences

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Playing a childless, vain, pitch-perfect vision of Los Angeles’ wickedness in “Maps to the Stars,” Julianne Moore mothered so hard she almost separated California right down the San Andreas fault line.

From Salon • May 10, 2026

Also read: We’re in our 70s and childless.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

British columnist Zoe Williams wondered in The Guardian how she would feel to receive such a letter from "childless" President Emmanuel Macron.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

Robert is single and childless and has lost track of how many times he’s been asked about his wife and kids by people who thought they were talking to me.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Provided she could see them periodically, that would not be a bad life, being an only child in a fine, rich, childless American family.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez