Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Playing a childless, vain, pitch-perfect vision of Los Angeles’ wickedness in “Maps to the Stars,” Julianne Moore mothered so hard she almost separated California right down the San Andreas fault line.
From Salon • May 10, 2026
Missing being mothered has driven her to cultivate her Spanish skills, after a college counselor hints that “focusing on a new syntax of any kind could become an escape hatch into new habits of mind.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2023
"But she also knew that mother is a verb as well as a noun and mothered so many others along the way who needed love and support throughout her life," she said.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2022
Thus has it been since an ailing William Hartnell, who played the First Doctor, transformed into Patrick Troughton, Doctor Two, in 1966 — an invention mothered by necessity.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2022
Davy baked and left cookies on my bed, and she always monitored my health and mothered me with homemade soup when I was sick.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
