How to Use maternal in a Sentence

maternal

adjective

• Doctors are concerned about the effects of the drug on maternal health.
• 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
• Georgia is one of the states with the highest rates of maternal mortality.
  — Caitlin Huey-Burns, CBS News, 17 June 2023
• Then, many new parents do not have nursing and maternal care visits or paid parental leave.
  — Steven Berkowitz, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2023
• In his own speech, Oyelowo again touched on Winfrey's maternal influence in his life.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2023
• In the meantime, Squires sees the benefit of taking advantage of the maternal vaccine for RSV.
  — Alice Park, Time, 21 Aug. 2023
• My mother and deceased maternal grandmother did not have the chance to explore the world when their children were young.
  — Essence, 26 Jan. 2024
• The image makes for a neat — perhaps too neat — metaphor for the tentacular reach of memories passed down the maternal line.
  — Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
• His grandfather was a watchmaker, and his two maternal grand-uncles had built cars and even an airplane in the 1920s.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 30 July 2023
• Likewise, the maternal mortality rate has more than doubled in the last 20 years.
  — Natasha Pearlman, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2024
• Keough portrays the family’s maternal figure, and Christophe Zajac-Denek plays the youngest sasquatch.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2024
• In the end, his test came back negative, so it’s believed that the mutation came from Dedmon’s maternal side.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 10 Oct. 2023
• Your state had one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country according to the CDC, up until about 2021.
  — CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
• On the next day, Dunning’s maternal grandfather passed away in South Korea.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
• Walrus calves depend on maternal care for the first two years of their lives, and when this walrus was found there was no adult walrus in sight, according to the center.
  — Sara Smart, CNN, 6 Aug. 2023
• Black women have a maternal mortality rate about three times the rate for white women.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2023
• In the cells that produce eggs and sperm, the maternal and paternal copies of the chromosomes line up and swap corresponding segments of DNA.
  — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2023
• My maternal grandfather owned a music store and my mother played the piano.
  — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
• Each was a tragedy, but maternal filicide falls low on the register of reasons for infant death.
  — Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
• After more than a year of war, official statistics about maternal health in Ukraine are sparse.
  — Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 2 June 2023
• The challenges of using the antibody shot and the maternal vaccine are myriad and in some respects ironic.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 6 Oct. 2023
• That makes bleeding to death the leading cause of maternal mortality.
  — Jennifer Fields, Fortune Well, 12 Sep. 2023
• As Black women have the highest maternal mortality rate in the U.S., and this could also be the difference between life and death.
  — Jazmin Towe, Parents, 29 Aug. 2023
• The cranberry is a diploid, which means that each cell contains one set of chromosomes from the maternal parent and one set from the paternal parent.
  — Serina Desalvio, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2023
• Chalmers’ great-grandmother grew rice on the land on which Palmetto Bluff sits; his maternal grandmother sowed it in Bluffton.
  — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 28 June 2023
• Doctors also predict a sharp rise in maternal and infant deaths, as thousands of women will be compelled to give birth at home in the coming weeks.
  — Frances Robles, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
• And then there were the alarming figures about Black women: The maternal mortality rate for Black women is 2.6 times the rate for White women, research shows.
  — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• After Chapman and Ann split, Wes was raised by his maternal grandparents.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 30 June 2023
• There is also a maternal RSV vaccine, which is given to pregnant mothers in the third trimester between 32 weeks' and 36 week's gestation.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 2 Dec. 2023
• At 38 years old, Dominique Armour is considered to be of advanced maternal age.
  — Faith Abubey, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024