miscarriage
Example Sentences
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“Henry Ford Hospital” from 1932 offers an unsparing look at the artist following a miscarriage, in which blood vessels fan out like ribbons and objects like snails hint at the slowness of her recovery.
John Price KC, prosecuting, told jurors that Malkinson had been "the victim of a most terrible miscarriage of justice, one of the worst there has been".
From BBC
During more than a decade of marriage, Mary Greeley was frequently pregnant, bore seven children, and suffered multiple miscarriages.
From Literature
“A ‘miscarriage of mail’ includes failure of the mail to arrive at its intended destination, regardless of the carrier’s intent or where the mail goes instead,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
Sally is processing both the shock of a miscarriage and her ambivalence about her marriage.
From Los Angeles Times
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