BABY in a Sentence

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For BABY, below is one of 399 sentences:
Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have a dead husband and a baby yelling in the next room and be out of everything that was pleasant.

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 Meanings and Examples of BABY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
baby
 n.  an extremely young child or animal
 a.  much smaller than the usual
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Emmie's baby has been born and is dying and must be baptized.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  His five tall brothers gave him good-by with admiring but slightly patronizing smiles, for Gerald was the baby and the little one of a brawny family.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Most of all she learned how to conceal from men a sharp intelligence beneath a face as sweet and bland as a baby's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  It would be interesting to know who was the father of Emmie Slattery's baby, but Scarlett knew she would never learn the truth of the matter if she waited to hear it from her mother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  The whole family knew that Carreen's thirteen-year-old heart was set upon Brent Tarleton, who never gave her a thought except as Scarlett's baby sister.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  The twenty-mile journey from Jonesboro to Atlanta had so excited her that Scarlett had been forced to hold the baby all the way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  She twisted from side to side, pointed, bounced about and so jounced the baby that he wailed miserably.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  Prissy produced the sugar-tit, given her that morning by Mammy, and the baby's wails subsided.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  The town she was now seeing was like a baby grown overnight into a busy, sprawling giant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  Mrs. Meade mounted her carriage block and craned her neck for a view of the baby, but the doctor, disregarding the mud, plowed through to the side of the carriage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  She had knitted socks and baby caps and afghans and mufflers and tatted yards of lace and painted china hair receivers and mustache cups.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have a dead husband and a baby yelling in the next room and be out of everything that was pleasant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  She was seventeen years old and she had a husband lying at Oakland Cemetery and a baby in his cradle at Aunt Pittypat's and everyone thought she should be content with her lot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  The old lady had recognized Ellen's handwriting and her fat little mouth was pursed in a frightened way, like a baby who fears a scolding and hopes to ward it off by tears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  Melanie, her eyes shining with joy, her head ducked with embarrassed pride, told her she was going to have a baby.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (189 in 13 pages)
16  She feeds the baby with a spoon.
17  The baby was howling all the time I was there.
18  Mother usually grinds down the food for the baby.
19  Lucy soothed the baby by rocking it in her arms.
20  The young mother was gushing over a baby.
21  To have a darling baby boy was the greatest gift I could imagine.
22  We are trying to get the baby into a routine for feeding and sleeping.
23  He smothered the baby with a pillow.
24  The baby can't feed itself yet.
25  Don't worry if your baby seems a little reluctant to crawl or walk.
26  The straps hold the baby in securely.
27  A baby has no knowledge of good and evil.
28  Your mom showed me ur baby pictures.
29  Women who put off having a baby often make the best mothers.
30  Breast/Mother's milk is the best nourishment for a baby.