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

Anxious to preserve the familial line—and their power—emperors would arrange strategic marriages or, if childless, adopt an heir.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

She knew that his wife had died childless, and that he had always wanted a son—he was praying still, he told her, that God would bless him with a son.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin