children

Example Sentences

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"A society that is incapable of protecting its own children is a society which will one day start turning against itself."

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

“Those children had never been outside of West Las Vegas in their whole lives—including my children,” she told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Goodstein said that a quarter of those were women, while nearly 10 percent were children, including unaccompanied minors and newborns.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

These factors, and others, convinced the judge that he could not detain the boys because the guidelines for sentencing children say that custody is a "last resort", with the priority being rehabilitation.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

For on top of everything, the human children would come to the edge of Clare’s wood.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman