pregnant
adjective
having a child or other offspring developing in the body; with child or young, as a woman or female mammal.
pregnantly
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a word derived from
pregnant.
Example Sentences
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Vicki Mortimer’s set divides the proscenium into four parts: The actual story plays out only in the lower right quadrant, two other quadrants serve as the angels’ staging areas, and one remains pregnantly empty.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2015
The episode ends, pregnantly, in SCDP’s reception area, where the scene’s like an open audition for the role of Lt.
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2012
Author de Seversky pregnantly observes that already big, experimental bombers like the Big and the Martin Mars can carry 18 tons of bombs nearly 8,000 miles.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was in reply to a question whether this condition referred to America that M. Caillaux replied pregnantly: "Mais certainement!"
From Time Magazine Archive
"There you have it, you see!" she pregnantly remarked to her pupil.
From What Maisie Knew by Henry James
