Example Sentences

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No more social workers asking what your daily life is like as a way of finding out what your mother is up to personally, or whether she is mothering you at all.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 25, 2018

Of course it isn’t the same as mothering another human, but it is mothering nonetheless.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2016

There is mothering, and there is fathering—children do best with both.

From Forbes • Jul. 22, 2015

The war, which has compelled U.S. farmers to look for manpower substitutes, is mothering some amazing new farm machines.

From Time Magazine Archive

I don’t know where you came from, but what you need is mothering.

From Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island The Mystery of the Wreck by Wheeler, Janet D.