How to Use pregnant in a Sentence
pregnant
adjective- There was a pregnant pause before the winner was announced.
- She got pregnant soon after her marriage.
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This could change, though, if Shiv turns out to be pregnant.
— Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023 -
Rumer Willis, who is also pregnant, got in on the fun too.
— Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 Mar. 2023 -
Zamchenko was several months pregnant with their first child.
— Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023 -
About 14 years ago, the couple sought the support of a birth doula when Jones was pregnant.
— Tatiana Parafiniuk-Talesnick, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023 -
The Selling Sunset star said becoming pregnant with her first child with Tarek was a huge shock.
— Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 8 Mar. 2023 -
Men, for example, acted out being pregnant, giving birth and breastfeeding in dances.
— Angus Watson, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023 -
In a subsequent double-blind study, one group of pregnant women were given choline supplements and the other placebos.
— Daliah Singer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024 -
Of all the taboos Wong breaks, from getting into the gory truth of breastfeeding to working blue while visibly pregnant, the unabashed embrace of her own success may be the most challenging of all to social norms.
— Variety, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024 -
The pregnant woman was a week and a half past her due date.
— Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023 -
The owner of the pregnant dog declined to fix her pet, too.
— Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023 -
The 28-year-old shared that he’d just been told his girlfriend was pregnant.
— Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2023 -
Ashley, who was 11 weeks pregnant at the time, said she was raped by a stranger in the yard of the family's home.
— Rachel Scott, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2024 -
Ashley Brandt and her sister-in-law were pregnant with twins at the same time.
— Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 22 June 2023 -
Some of them were pregnant, some of them much different sizes and shapes.
— Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2024 -
For someone who is obese or pregnant, perform the thrusts around the chest instead of the abdomen.
— Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 5 June 2023 -
And so, a pregnant woman with another small child out on the street in flip flops?
— Kevin J. Beaty, NPR, 8 May 2024 -
Of the six cats that received the treatment, two mated with males, per the New York Times, but none became pregnant.
— Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2023 -
Her family confirmed that Mooney was two months pregnant at the time of her death.
— Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024 -
Experts say the vaccine will not harm a pregnant person or the fetus.
— Claire Wolters, Verywell Health, 17 May 2023 -
Earlier in the podcast, the model had talked about getting pregnant for the third time, and how the couple felt about it.
— Jenny Haward, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023 -
The Abundant Birth Project started in June 2021 and plans to make a second round of grants to pregnant mothers this fall, the response says.
— Ronnie Cohen | Kff Health News, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023 -
Anita Chabria: Supreme Court to pregnant women: Good luck with that.
— Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2024 -
Emma had to endure two more weeks in a pregnant body, one that kept growing.
— Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2024 -
Lively appeared, visibly not pregnant, in a shot of the pair that evening.
— Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 31 May 2023 -
The same goes for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
— Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 3 Nov. 2023 -
Yet, resources to help these women who become pregnant can be hard to find.
— NBC news, 31 May 2023 -
Miley Rose would likely die before birth, and the longer Phillips stayed pregnant, the worse her own health could become.
— TIME, 12 Oct. 2023 -
However, the biggest shocker is at the end of the episode as Gabriel reveals to Emily that Camille is pregnant.
— Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2023
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