Example Sentences

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The programmes are "parent-led, trauma-informed and support these mummies and daddies in the darkness".

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2025

But they’re also doing something many child-free cat ladies and cat daddies can relate to on a scale that suits them – growing food, making butter, harvesting eggs.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2024

“I trust mamas, I trust daddies, to deal with the health care of their children.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2023

To struggle to be fair to Dylan, in the universe of this book, and in most of these songs, the men the narrators confront are no better — sugarless daddies, jacks mistaken for kings.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2022

Focus on the floor because I ain't got time to get stunted on by a whole bunch of rich girls whose daddies own stuff.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds