How to Use mother in a Sentence

mother

1 of 2 verb

• I hope to mother at least one child.
• She mothered two sons but no daughters.
• The cubs were born to mother Amur tiger Zoya and father Pavel, and were Zoya's first children.
  — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Sep. 2022
• The Audubon Zoo is optimistic that Menari will be able to mother the child once the infant is stronger.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 30 Dec. 2021
• Reese’s deepest desire is to mother a child of her own.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 1 Mar. 2021
• Women can’t mother their children, who grow up with problems of their own.
  — Kelan Lyons, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• Queen Ramonda is still there to mother the entire kingdom so that Shuri doesn’t have to grow up.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 28 Nov. 2022
• Using your moon sign can help you to mother yourself and honor your own comfort zone.
  — Glamour, 31 May 2022
• The slang term — without an article in front — is used by fans, brands and sometimes even mothers themselves.
  — Ben Kesslen, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• Tanisha is, in fact, just Davina’s little sister, although she is forced to mother her.
  — Kyesha Jennings, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2021
• Everyone has important female figures in their lives who, in some way, have helped to mother them.
  — Rachel Besser, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2021
• Both Statons were active in their church, and anytime the church had a pastor who wasn't from around Pine Bluff, Dean would mother him, opening her home for meals and to share in holidays.
  — Byron Tate, Arkansas Online, 28 Mar. 2021
• Free motherhood looks like being able to mother my kids without the judgment of society, without the pressures of this is how it's supposed to be.
  — Djeneba Aduayom, refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2022
• Doug encouraged Ashley to try and mother a reluctant Eva who was only 9 years younger.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2021
• Kela immediately took to mothering the feline alongside the rest of her brood.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2023
• However, their disappearance may have aroused in her that feeling to mother the motherless chick.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2023
• Flora slices into Joanie’s subconscious after inviting Joanie to mother her as a setup for seduction and thievery.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
• Enslaved Black women nursed and reared their owners’ white children—an act of labor that was both intimate and exploitative, and that never translated into reverence or respect for Black women and their ability to mother their own children.
  — Leah Wright Rigueur, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2021
• I hope to mother at least one child.
• She mothered two sons but no daughters.
• The cubs were born to mother Amur tiger Zoya and father Pavel, and were Zoya's first children.
  — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Sep. 2022
• The Audubon Zoo is optimistic that Menari will be able to mother the child once the infant is stronger.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 30 Dec. 2021
• Reese’s deepest desire is to mother a child of her own.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 1 Mar. 2021
• Women can’t mother their children, who grow up with problems of their own.
  — Kelan Lyons, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• Queen Ramonda is still there to mother the entire kingdom so that Shuri doesn’t have to grow up.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 28 Nov. 2022
• Using your moon sign can help you to mother yourself and honor your own comfort zone.
  — Glamour, 31 May 2022
• The slang term — without an article in front — is used by fans, brands and sometimes even mothers themselves.
  — Ben Kesslen, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• Tanisha is, in fact, just Davina’s little sister, although she is forced to mother her.
  — Kyesha Jennings, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2021
• Everyone has important female figures in their lives who, in some way, have helped to mother them.
  — Rachel Besser, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2021
• Both Statons were active in their church, and anytime the church had a pastor who wasn't from around Pine Bluff, Dean would mother him, opening her home for meals and to share in holidays.
  — Byron Tate, Arkansas Online, 28 Mar. 2021

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mother

2 of 2 noun

• Then, near the end of that open call, Maryam came in with her mother.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
• The boys have gone back to their mother, and my partner and I have an evening to ourselves.
  — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 23 Feb. 2024
• The mother told the newspaper that the teenager had used the cash to fund a crack cocaine habit.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 9 July 2023
• The next morning, around 7 a.m., Megan sent her mother a text.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2024
• The grieving mother starts to shriek and flail in the pew; Cherizier towels off his head.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
• Officers gave his car keys to his mother for the night.
  — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
• His mother, Nicole, went on to co-found Sandy Hook Promise.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 8 Dec. 2023
• His late mother Queen Elizabeth II was monarch at the time.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
• Barbara was 15 years old by the time her mother came up for the idea of Barbie, the New York Times reported.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 21 July 2023
• So her team decided to measure stress, both on the mother and the fetus.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• Juste is hoping to save her mother before that day comes.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2024
• Because this goes out to all the mothers that struggle, that have kids that was forced to sacrifice.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 16 June 2023
• Her mother got on a store in the city of Monterrey, Mexico.
  — Condé Nast, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2023
• Then Mack held her mother's mouth shut to muffle the screams as Schaefer beat her to death with the metal handle of a fruit bowl.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 17 Jan. 2024
• By the time Bews got arrested, her mother hadn’t heard from her for three years.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• Her mother slept on a couch on the other side of a curtain, which split the only bedroom into two.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
• The children's mother skied across Norway to raise money.
  — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
• What his mother taught him On a recent rainy day, Hassouna sat among the graves of his family in Rafah.
  — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 24 Feb. 2024
• Of the hundreds of children born to mothers on Trikafta, only a few of the babies had CF themselves.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
• There’s an intimacy among them all, even if many of them don’t share a mother.
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• Three months later, his mother opened one of his credit card statements and saw the mounting debt.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2024
• The two were more like sisters sometimes than mother and daughter.
  — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024
• French talked to Rolling Stone about his mother, his come-up in the Bronx rap scene, and why immigration affects us all.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2023
• According to the Daily Mail, the black sheep jumper was rumored to have been a wedding gift from the mother of one of Diana's page boys.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 27 June 2023
• His father owns a used car dealership while his mother manages the home.
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
• The sisters, meanwhile, came up with a story to explain their mother’s absence.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• Every time smoky chicken fat is dipped into the jug, the tare takes on more nuance, building flavor like a mother sauce.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• Another mother at the dance studio had a cousin who’d been scammed just two weeks earlier.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2024
• All of this helped lend her the wise and mature demeanor to so convincingly play mother to Tris and Caleb in Divergent.
  — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2024
• Speaking of mothers, the 26-year-old reality star and the 33-year-old actor have both added the title to their own résumés in recent years.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024