give birth to
Example Sentences
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According to the filing, a deal was “orchestrated” in which “Riley Keough gave her eggs to Travolta so that Kelly could give birth to their son, Ben Travolta” and “Riley was given an old Jaguar and paid between $10,000 - $20,000 for the deal.”
From Los Angeles Times
Current rules stipulate that a pregnant women cannot compete within a 14-week period - from six weeks before they give birth, to eight weeks after.
From BBC
Georgia’s policies around life and death were recently thrust into the spotlight in the case of Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old mother and nurse who was kept alive, brain-dead, as a vessel to give birth to a baby without her consent.
From Slate
When that happens, I feel like they think that everything that we went through to give birth to our children, to get them to America, to educate them, to pay their school fees, to pay their college, it’s paying off, because they are now kind of shedding some of the generational curses, and they don’t have to pay for the mistakes that we’ve made anymore.
From Los Angeles Times
To maintain a stable population, women need to give birth to 2.1 children on average during their lifetimes.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
