Example Sentences

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“People who make this art that you not only deeply connect to, but that you feel has mothered you in some way.”

From New York Times • May 13, 2020

As a woman who has mothered such a child for the past 53 years, let me share some of the difficulties as well as the joys of parenting a child with microcephaly.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2016

The navigator's report neither surprised nor vexed Madill, who has mothered the wandering pole for 25 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

The desert has mothered magic things before this.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

"You mother Pertinax, who is more than twice your age—just as Marcia has mothered that monster Commodus until her heart is breaking."

From Caesar Dies by Mundy, Talbot