CHILD in a Sentence

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For CHILD, below is one of 420 sentences:
She knew very well they all thought she was a child of a mesalliance and wondered how a Robillard ever married a newly come Irishman.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHILD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
child
 n.  a human offspring of any age, son or daughter
 n.  a young person of either sex
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She held the light at the same level, and it drew out with the same distinctness her slim young throat and the brown wrist no bigger than a child's.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  You're just a child and bothered about your beaux.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  It was a voice never raised in command to a servant or reproof to a child but a voice that was obeyed instantly at Tara, where her husband's blustering and roaring were quietly disregarded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  The next year, their first child was born and they named her Katie Scarlett, after Gerald's mother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  But Scarlett, child of Gerald, found the road to ladyhood hard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  She told herself that the child was merely full of life and there was still time in which to teach her the arts and graces of being attractive to men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  When Scarlett was a child, she had confused her mother with the Virgin Mary, and now that she was older she saw no reason for changing her opinion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  I gives you a good night, said Dilcey and, turning, left the room with her child, Pork dancing attendance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  They fell on unhearing ears, words that were swift and tender and full of pity, like a father speaking to a hurt child.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  But she carried the child through its time with a minimum of discomfort, bore him with little distress and recovered so quickly that Mammy told her privately it was downright common--ladies should suffer more.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  She felt little affection for the child, hide the fact though she might.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  So Scarlett, unenthusiastic, went off with her child, first to visit her O'Hara and Robillard relatives in Savannah and then to Ellen's sisters, Pauline and Eulalie, in Charleston.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  She knew very well they all thought she was a child of a mesalliance and wondered how a Robillard ever married a newly come Irishman.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  Atlanta had always interested her more than any other town because when she was a child Gerald had told her that she and Atlanta were exactly the same age.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  She is the most helpless soul--just like a sweet grown-up child, and Uncle Peter treats her that way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  He has developed from a child into an adult.
17  Children must use an approved child restraint or adult seat belt.
18  Each ticket admits one adult and one child.
19  An unhappy home environment can affect a child's behaviour.
20  A bad home environment can affect a child's healthy growth.
21  Zidane has become the poster child for a whole generation of French-born youths of North African extraction.
22  I will look after her child when she is on a business trip.
23  He said his goodbyes knowing that a long time would pass before he would see his child again.
24  In Sweden it is against the law to hit a child.
25  By the age of two a child will have a vocabulary of about two hundred words.
26  The child was found wandering the streets alone.
27  It seems unnatural for a child to spend so much time alone.
28  The amount of food a child needs is roughly proportional to its size.
29  Even a child can answer this question.
30  The child clutched the doll to her arms and would not show it to anyone.