BABY in a Sentence

Learn BABY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
399 example sentences for BABY, such as:
1. That bird tried to peck the baby.
2. The baby crawled across the floor.
3. The baby flew into his mother's arm.
4. Napolean himself was once a crying baby.
5. The baby was wriggling around on my lap.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of BABY
baby
 n.  (slang) sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women
 n.  a project of personal concern to someone
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Emmie's baby has been born and is dying and must be baptized.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  His five tall brothers gave him good-by with admiring but slightly patronizing smiles, for Gerald was the baby and the little one of a brawny family.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Most of all she learned how to conceal from men a sharp intelligence beneath a face as sweet and bland as a baby's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  It would be interesting to know who was the father of Emmie Slattery's baby, but Scarlett knew she would never learn the truth of the matter if she waited to hear it from her mother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  The whole family knew that Carreen's thirteen-year-old heart was set upon Brent Tarleton, who never gave her a thought except as Scarlett's baby sister.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  The twenty-mile journey from Jonesboro to Atlanta had so excited her that Scarlett had been forced to hold the baby all the way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  She twisted from side to side, pointed, bounced about and so jounced the baby that he wailed miserably.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  Prissy produced the sugar-tit, given her that morning by Mammy, and the baby's wails subsided.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  The town she was now seeing was like a baby grown overnight into a busy, sprawling giant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  Mrs. Meade mounted her carriage block and craned her neck for a view of the baby, but the doctor, disregarding the mud, plowed through to the side of the carriage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  She had knitted socks and baby caps and afghans and mufflers and tatted yards of lace and painted china hair receivers and mustache cups.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have a dead husband and a baby yelling in the next room and be out of everything that was pleasant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  She was seventeen years old and she had a husband lying at Oakland Cemetery and a baby in his cradle at Aunt Pittypat's and everyone thought she should be content with her lot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  The old lady had recognized Ellen's handwriting and her fat little mouth was pursed in a frightened way, like a baby who fears a scolding and hopes to ward it off by tears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  Melanie, her eyes shining with joy, her head ducked with embarrassed pride, told her she was going to have a baby.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (189 in 13 pages)
1  I knew absolutely nothing about handling or feeding a baby.
2  The baby crawled across the floor.
3  Researchers are looking at how a mother's health can affect the baby in the womb.
4  Antenatal complications can affect a baby's health.
5  She could knit up a baby's coat in an afternoon.
6  The surgery holds a baby clinic every Wednesday afternoon.
7  The baby flew into his mother's arm.
8  The baby was wriggling around on my lap.
9  Don't assume your baby automatically needs feeding if she's fretful.
10  He is used to a lot of attention from his wife, which will inevitably lessen when the baby is born.
11  Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
12  Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
13  Napolean himself was once a crying baby.
14  Many kiss the baby for the nurse's sake.
15  That bird tried to peck the baby.