give birth

phrase

: to have a baby

gave birth last Thursday

Examples of give birth in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

McKenna West, the surrogate who gave birth to the baby, had asked the court to suspend a California ruling that gave parental authority of the newborn boy solely to his genetic parents. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026

Researchers led by Wang Youjie at Huazhong University of Science and Technology analyzed urine samples from 4,891 women who gave birth at Wuhan Maternal and Child Health Hospital between 2012 and 2014. — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026

In addition to training through her disorder, Brejcha has trained through two pregnancies and came into the studio only eight weeks after giving birth to her second child. — Monique John, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026

The gestational surrogate who carried the child of the 40-year-old singer and 42-year-old entrepreneur gave birth in Los Angeles this summer, but the news didn’t surface until Page Six broke the news this month. — Marzia Nicolini, Vanity Fair, 19 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1887, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for give birth

• afterbirth
• berth
• dearth
• earth
• firth
• girth
• mirth
• worth
• childbirth
• rebirth
• stillbirth
• tamworth