MATERNAL in a Sentence

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49 example sentences for MATERNAL, such as:

1. She didn't have any maternal instincts.
2. She works in the maternity unit at the local hospital.
3. So the maternal admonition seemed rather to fail of effect.
4. The contract gives a female executive maternity leave rights.
5. Her going on maternity leave will create a temporary vacancy.

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 Meanings and Examples of MATERNAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
maternal
 a.  motherly; relating to mother or motherhood
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  "Jo wanted me to come, and tell her how you looked, so I did," answered Laurie, without turning his eyes upon her, though he half smiled at her maternal tone.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINE
2  You should do just what your grandfather wishes, my dear boy, said Meg in her most maternal tone.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
3  The word 'Mother' suggested other maternal counsels given long ago, and received with unbelieving protests.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
4  Amy smiled and was mollified at once, saying with a maternal air, "Women should learn to be agreeable, particularly poor ones, for they have no other way of repaying the kindnesses they receive."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
5  As she was a womanly little woman, the maternal instinct was very strong, and she was entirely absorbed in her children, to the utter exclusion of everything and everybody else.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
6  To which pathetic appeal Daisy would answer with a coo, or Demi with a crow, and Meg would put by her lamentations for a maternal revel, which soothed her solitude for the time being.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
7  I flatter myself I'm a 'gentleman growed' as Peggotty said of David, and when you see Amy, you'll find her rather a precocious infant, said Laurie, looking amused at her maternal air.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
8  Go, dear, I forgot that you have any home but this, and Mrs. March pressed the white hand that wore the wedding ring, as if asking pardon for her maternal covetousness.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
9  Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 61
10  His father was a High Chief, a King; his uncle a High Priest; and on the maternal side he boasted aunts who were the wives of unconquerable warriors.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
11  Not seldom in the rapid vicissitudes of the chase, this natural line, with the maternal end loose, becomes entangled with the hempen one, so that the cub is thereby trapped.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
12  As for the sons and the daughters they beget, why, those sons and daughters must take care of themselves; at least, with only the maternal help.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.
13  At length she spoke, though her tones had lost their rich and calm fullness, in an expression of tenderness that seemed maternal.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
14  Cora was seated nigh them, a calm and amused looker-on; regarding the wayward movements of her more youthful sister with that species of maternal fondness which characterized her love for Alice.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
15  So the maternal admonition seemed rather to fail of effect.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  A generous check from the G8 to improve accountability in maternal health would make a very nice Mother's Day gift!
2  The English word "mother" is cognate to the Latin word "mater," whose influence is visible in the words "maternal" and "maternity.".
3  She didn't have any maternal instincts.
4  She works in the maternity unit at the local hospital.
5  Her going on maternity leave will create a temporary vacancy.
6  It's very difficult to demote somebody who has been standing in during maternity leave.
7  The contract gives a female executive maternity leave rights.