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

I wasn’t after infants who are incidental to the plot; I wanted babies whose babyhood was essential to the story.

From New York Times • May 11, 2024

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

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2021

I don’t look back at her babyhood and long for those days again—and not because I didn’t enjoy them, but because I want to enjoy the little person she is now.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2019

Perhaps he preferred that anyway, she thought; she must seem a little prattling cub, only just past babyhood, in the eyes of an armored bear.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman