CHILD in a Sentence

Learn CHILD 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.
420 example sentences for CHILD, such as:
1. You shouldn't act like a child.
2. The child is not yet able to write.
3. The child crawled across the floor.
4. It is a wise father that knows his own child.
5. You're just a child and bothered about your beaux.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CHILD
child
 n.  a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
 n.  a young person of either sex
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She held the light at the same level, and it drew out with the same distinctness her slim young throat and the brown wrist no bigger than a child's.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  You're just a child and bothered about your beaux.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  It was a voice never raised in command to a servant or reproof to a child but a voice that was obeyed instantly at Tara, where her husband's blustering and roaring were quietly disregarded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  The next year, their first child was born and they named her Katie Scarlett, after Gerald's mother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  But Scarlett, child of Gerald, found the road to ladyhood hard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  She told herself that the child was merely full of life and there was still time in which to teach her the arts and graces of being attractive to men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  When Scarlett was a child, she had confused her mother with the Virgin Mary, and now that she was older she saw no reason for changing her opinion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  I gives you a good night, said Dilcey and, turning, left the room with her child, Pork dancing attendance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  They fell on unhearing ears, words that were swift and tender and full of pity, like a father speaking to a hurt child.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  But she carried the child through its time with a minimum of discomfort, bore him with little distress and recovered so quickly that Mammy told her privately it was downright common--ladies should suffer more.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  She felt little affection for the child, hide the fact though she might.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  So Scarlett, unenthusiastic, went off with her child, first to visit her O'Hara and Robillard relatives in Savannah and then to Ellen's sisters, Pauline and Eulalie, in Charleston.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  She knew very well they all thought she was a child of a mesalliance and wondered how a Robillard ever married a newly come Irishman.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  Atlanta had always interested her more than any other town because when she was a child Gerald had told her that she and Atlanta were exactly the same age.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  She is the most helpless soul--just like a sweet grown-up child, and Uncle Peter treats her that way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It is a wise father that knows his own child.
2  We always ask for man to innocent as child, but able as father.
3  Through doing this, the teacher will be able to ascertain the extent to which the child understands what he is reading.
4  The child is not yet able to write.
5  Of his age, the child is above the norm in arithmetic.
6  It's an absolutely instinctive reaction—if a child falls you pick it up.
7  A child's access to schooling varies greatly from area to area.
8  The child crawled across the floor.
9  Trying to continue with a demanding career and manage a child or two is an impossible juggling act.
10  The duty of the agency is to act in the best interests of the child.
11  You shouldn't act like a child.
12  Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
13  The classroom was full of activity; every child was busy.
14  The film is about his adult life, but it keeps jumping to when he was a child.
15  Eventually your child will leave home to lead her own life as a fully independent adult.