children

Example Sentences

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That argument works for my paying for schools when I don’t have children, or your paying for scientific research you think is silly.

From Slate • May 11, 2026

Recently, I received a letter from a reader about whether she and her husband should add their children as beneficiaries to the husband’s modest retirement fund.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

In the furniture industry, he said, he could earn up to about $1,500 a month to support his wife and four children.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

Mohammadi's twin teenage children Ali and Kiana Rahmani, who live and study in Paris, have now not seen their mother for over a decade.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

It never occurred to any of us children that we ourselves were poor; “the poor” were people you took baskets to.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom