infanthood

Example Sentences

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Buying elastic waistband pants for my late-pandemic body is as far as I want anyone to regress into infanthood.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2021

Your mother is right about one thing: Children are learning machines and it starts in infanthood.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2014

But today the very hippest babies are relaxing from the trials and tensions of infanthood by taking up the age-old practice of yoga.

From Time Magazine Archive

A few, with heart-confiding faith of old, imbued Amid the darkling grove, where silver streamlets flow, Unfold to each their loves of tender infanthood, And carve the verdant stems of the vine-kissed portico.

From The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, Charles

I felt that I had snatched bread from the mouth of starving infanthood.

From The Princess Passes by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)