How to Use maternal in a Sentence

maternal

adjective

• Doctors are concerned about the effects of the drug on maternal health.
• In the course of the decade, maternal deaths fell by eighty per cent.
  — Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• The city has some of the highest rates of Black maternal and fetal death in the country.
  — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2024
• The name comes from her maternal clan, the Bear Clan, and the arrow on the firm's logo honors her dad's warrior sign.
  — The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
• There is this primal, maternal, innate need to save him and to save them.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
• Over half the state counties are defined as a maternal care desert.
  — Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 20 May 2024
• Georgia earned a failing grade in a March of Dimes report on the state of maternal and infant health.
  — Kristal Dixon, Axios, 25 Nov. 2024
• The Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade is a major blow to maternal health.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 19 July 2022
• But not all cats are as maternal as this one, according to the comments.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
• The maternal mortality rate is among the highest in the world.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
• This is because maternal age is one of the key risk factors for Down syndrome.
  — Robin Elise Weiss, Phd, Parents, 30 July 2024
• For a year, baby Kathleen was put in the care of her aunt and maternal grandmother.
  — Oscar Schwartz, Wired, 9 Dec. 2021
• Utah and Wyoming, which are trigger law states, have the lowest maternal poverty rates in the nation.
  — Elliott Ramos, NBC News, 1 July 2022
• What caused the changes in maternal death during the pandemic.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• Raised by his maternal grandparents as a devout Catholic, and was sent to an all-black Catholic school run by nuns.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 13 June 2021
• My maternal grandmother gave me the courage to go after my dreams.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
• Zoom out: The state ranks sixth in the nation for maternal age, an Axios analysis found.
  — Nadia Lopez, Axios, 28 Apr. 2025
• The country ranks among the worst places in the world to be born a female, with high infant and maternal mortality rates.
  — NBC News, 2 July 2021
• The twins’ maternal grandmother also died in the airstrike.
  — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 14 Aug. 2024
• Georgia is one of the states with the highest rates of maternal mortality.
  — Caitlin Huey-Burns, CBS News, 17 June 2023
• Oklahoma has one of the highest maternal death rates in the country, according to the CDC.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 5 Apr. 2022
• The prospects of a state committee that was formed to study maternal mortality are also up in the air.
  — Brittany Shammas and Marisa Iati, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
• The prospects of a state committee that was formed to study maternal mortality are also up in the air.
  — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
• Three out of four bases in primary care deserts are also in a mental health care desert, a maternal care desert, or both.
  — Brent Jones, NPR, 17 June 2024
• The iconic Olympian has been at the forefront of trying to bring awareness to the Black maternal health crisis, going all the way to Congress to have her voice heard.
  — Essence, 13 Apr. 2022
• Their work has helped shift the model of maternal care from a reactive to a proactive approach.
  — Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
• Zoya, an Amur tiger, was born at the Philadelphia Zoo, but her mother didn't have the maternal instincts to care for her.
  — Kelly Murray, CNN, 9 July 2022
• Then, many new parents do not have nursing and maternal care visits or paid parental leave.
  — Steven Berkowitz, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2023
• Mental health remains the leading cause of maternal deaths in the United States, including deaths from suicide.
  — Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR, 1 Aug. 2025
• The Bay State boasts the third-lowest infant mortality rate, the eighth-lowest maternal mortality rate, and among the best neonatal hospitals in the nation for premature births or babies with health problems, the report said.
  — Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025