children
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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“I had seven children and they got to be fed.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Goodstein said that a quarter of those were women, while nearly 10 percent were children, including unaccompanied minors and newborns.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
Growing up as the youngest of nine children in a cramped council flat in Kilburn, north London, from the age of eight she juggled schoolwork and part-time jobs to earn pocket money.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
She told the Las Vegas Review-Journal her proudest accomplishment was “making sure I got all my children through high school and college”—and she wound up being awarded several honorary degrees herself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Willem and his wife and children lived in the town of Hilversum, thirty miles away: still, they should have been here by now.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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