PARENT in a Sentence

Learn PARENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

378 example sentences for PARENT, such as:

1. Eliza surveyed her parent calmly.
2. A placid parent makes a placid home.
3. Being a parent is her first priority.
4. The written consent of a parent is required.
5. To be appreciated as a parent is quite unusual.

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 Meanings and Examples of PARENT
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parent
 n.  a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
Classic Sentence: (168 in 12 pages)
1  She thanked him in the most ardent terms for his intended services towards her parent, and at the same time she gently deplored her own fate.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
2  The old well-established grievance of duty against will, parent against child, was the cause of all.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
3  She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
4  So successful a watch and ward had been established over the young lady by this judicious parent, that she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIII
5  Here's Mr. Pip, aged parent," said Wemmick, "and I wish you could hear his name.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXV
6  The Doctor's desire that Annie should be entertained, was therefore particularly acceptable to this excellent parent; who expressed unqualified approval of his discretion.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
7  I was willing to do anything to relieve Mr. James from his difficulty, and to restore harmony between himself and an affectionate parent, who has undergone so much on his account.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE
8  And therefore it is,' said Mrs. Micawber, 'that I the more wish, that, at a future period, we may live again on the parent soil.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS
9  Anything you say, replies the shortsighted parent, preparing herself to sing, The Three Little Kittens half a dozen times over, or to take her family to Buy a penny bun, regardless of wind or limb.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
10  "He's a born Weller," laughed Jo, as her parent gathered himself up, and her nephew tried to stand on his head, as the only mode of expressing his satisfaction that school was over.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
11  Eliza surveyed her parent calmly.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  Bertha, like a dutiful child, copied her parent in both points.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  As far as I can see, it will be your chief diversion hereafter; unless Linton make amends for other losses: and your provident parent appears to fancy he may.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  And when I began to consider that, by copulating with one of the Yahoo species I had become a parent of more, it struck me with the utmost shame, confusion, and horror.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER XI.
15  The guests bowed deeply to the mourning parent, and withdrew from their hospitable guide.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The written consent of a parent is required.
17  A placid parent makes a placid home.
18  Children under fourteen should be accompanied by a parent.
19  Being a parent is her first priority.
20  A parent must be careful not to show favouritism towards any one of their children.
21  Being a parent isn't easy, as I know from experience.
22  To be appreciated as a parent is quite unusual.
23  Nearly every new parent feels an amalgam of joy and terror.
24  He was enjoying all the satisfactions of being a parent.
25  I was bringing up my three children as a single parent.
26  We will be discussing how the interests of state, parent and child interrelate.
27  The new firm was owned on a fifty-fifty basis by the two parent companies.
28  The children must cross the road only with a teacher or parent.
29  The company has decided to amalgamate with the parent firm.
30  As a parent, I feel that more should be done to protect our children.