Example Sentences

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I recently took a closer look at the question of how telework may be impacting mothers’ labor force participation.

From Salon • May 10, 2026

Inside the world of professional book club facilitating, where the wine flows, the opinions are fierce and the ‘bad mothers’ in fiction are never welcome.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

“All of our mothers’ furniture and grandmothers’ furniture is very hard to sell because it’s mahogany, it’s vintage,” Hall said.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 30, 2025

Online, they post photos of smiling male couples holding infants still slick from their mothers’ birth canals, celebrating a triumph of “modern family building.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

I pass two toddlers tugging on their mothers' arms.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi