How to Use parent in a Sentence

parent

1 of 2 noun

• The parent brings food to the chicks.
• The form must be signed by a parent or guardian of the child.
• The new plant will have characteristics of both parent plants.
• My parents live in New York.
• Too many parents are out of the loop.
  — Abby McCloskey, Boston Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
• The deep work will fall to parents.
  — Abby McCloskey, Boston Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
• The chance to see her parents again.
  — ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
• There is a way to co-parent with love.
  — ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
• Love for a parent isn’t a light switch.
  — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 20 Feb. 2026
• Love for a parent isn’t a light switch.
  — Emma Banks, InStyle, 27 Feb. 2026
• And parents and kids are thrilled.
  — Veronica Ortega, CBS News, 17 June 2026
• His parents cleaned out the room above the garage.
  — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
• His parents had a short time to talk with him.
  — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 6 May 2026
• My parents were very against it [at first].
  — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• My friends' parents didn’t like me.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025
• Let’s be healthy sports parents.
  — Jonathan Carone, Parents, 4 Oct. 2025
• Their parents hadn’t been paid.
  — ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
• As the parent of school-age kids, this does seem bad.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
• But when the sun goes down, give the child back to his parents.
  — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
• And less shock could mean less screen time strife for parents and kids alike.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 18 Dec. 2023
• There but for the grace of God, any parent thinks.
  — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2026
• Noelle’s parents live 10 miles from my home.
  — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 12 Jan. 2026
• The parents were always there to bail him out.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
• In fact, parents may prove key to its future.
  — Reagan Yip, CNN Money, 3 June 2026
• Who hopped on a plane when [Daly’s] parents [died]?
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
• Climbed out and didn’t call the police or any of his parents.
  — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 20 Feb. 2026
• So, his parents trusted me with their child.
  — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 28 May 2026
• One thing that did breakthrough from the parents?
  — Tracy Kimball, Charlotte Observer, 29 Apr. 2026
• Her parents said this is nothing new.
  — Jasmine Viel, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
• Bree comes bearing gifts for her parents.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026

parent

2 of 2 verb

• Shane shouldn’t have to parent his parents.
  — Ian Kerner 19 Hr Ago, CNN Money, 3 Feb. 2026
• What is your credential to tell me how to parent?
  — David S. Bennahum, Fortune, 24 May 2026
• Now, Evan has to parent him about something.
  — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 17 June 2026
• To watch them at times, in fact, is to watch a kid parenting a parent.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2026
• This has taught me more about patience than parenting.
  — Maria Zorn, Longreads, 24 Feb. 2026
• What’s the hardest thing about parenting an adult?
  — Charley Locke, New York Times, 18 June 2026
• Still, parenting in your 40s is hard.
  — Janet W. Lee, NPR, 12 Jan. 2026
• Jimmy deals with parenting his teenage daughter, who wants to go on a group date.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2023
• Just think about working—or even parenting.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 10 Mar. 2026
• That means, somewhere out there, a mom is trying to parent through a migraine.
  — Tonilyn Hornung, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2020
• The two even plan to continue co-parenting their dogs.
  — Daniel S. Levine, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
• Since their divorce, the two have co-parented their two daughters.
  — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
• With daycares closed, she and her husband were both forced to parent two kids while working full-time.
  — Mirel Zaman, refinery29.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• One of the most rewarding elements of life is to parent a child.
  — Tracy Brower, Forbes, 10 July 2022
• Children stay close to adults who make room for their whole identity, not just the parts that are easy to parent.
  — Reem Raouda, CNBC, 21 Dec. 2025
• But for now, co-parenting under one roof is their best version of normal.
  — Kayla Levy, Curbed, 4 Aug. 2025
• Kennedy is in a way bringing the business of coaching to parenting.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026
• Since their separation, the two have butted heads over how to co-parent their children.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
• Essentially, to parent through rewards is to play with the levers of a child’s dopamine.
  — Josh Wilbur, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
• Muller urged mothers to view self-care as essential to parenting well.
  — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
• For decades, the grant has helped parenting students at colleges across the country.
  — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
• And the real challenge at the end of the day with cloning is who's going to do the work of parenting that clone?
  — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 26 July 2023
• However, it is based on parenting through fear and control.
  — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 3 Mar. 2026
• The desire for a reprieve from parenting—and the use of substances to get it—is hardly new.
  — Sarah Levy, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
• They were brought together to make each other better and to co-parent their two children.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2022
• Watch Jones discuss mourning, parenting through loss, and faith above.
  — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
• All coaching really is, at the end of the day, is parenting for football.
  — Keith Pearson, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
• The focus should be on parenting them and making sure their needs are met (to the best of your ability).
  — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
• One thing that struck me was watching Emma, a mother, trying to parent from space.
  — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 4 Sep. 2020
• That, looking back, her mom — who could at times be abusive — didn't always have the tools to parent her and her siblings.
  — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Mar. 2021