Example Sentences

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‘But I think it’s probably your subconscious taking care of the rest of you. I think it’s probably you being a good mother to yourself. You are mothering you.’

From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2017

We are mothering the world still; but we are mothering it, in a fearfully wide measure, all wrong.

From Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887 by Various