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.
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.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CHILD
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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.
2 You're just a child and bothered about your beaux.
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.
4 The next year, their first child was born and they named her Katie Scarlett, after Gerald's mother.
5 But Scarlett, child of Gerald, found the road to ladyhood hard.
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.
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.
8 I gives you a good night, said Dilcey and, turning, left the room with her child, Pork dancing attendance.
9 They fell on unhearing ears, words that were swift and tender and full of pity, like a father speaking to a hurt child.
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.
11 She felt little affection for the child, hide the fact though she might.
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.
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.
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.
15 She is the most helpless soul--just like a sweet grown-up child, and Uncle Peter treats her that way.
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.