Example Sentences

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But at 3, my son still wears diapers and has the soft cheeks of babyhood.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2025

Then there are her hands, which Rett syndrome has characteristically made her wring daily since babyhood.

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2021

I should add, these three items have been her lovies as long as she can remember, and all three date back to babyhood.

From Slate • Jul. 12, 2021

Macon is known familiarly as Milkman, a bitter nickname stemming from the widespread knowledge that his unhappy, neurasthenic mother, “the daughter of the richest Negro doctor in town,” breast-fed him long past babyhood.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2019

She had left babyhood far behind, and she was not capable yet of being one of the grownups she admired.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck