PREGNANT in a Sentence

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Nausea, vomiting in pregnancy occurs in up to 90 percent of women who are pregnant, and has a huge spectrum.

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 Meanings and Examples of PREGNANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pregnant
 a.  expecting a baby; carrying within the body or being about to produce new life
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  Scarlett had wept with despair at the knowledge that she was pregnant and wished that she were dead.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  Maybelle looked so very pregnant it was a disgrace for her to be out in public, even if she did have her shawl carefully draped over her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  Ellen was ill, perhaps dying, and here was Scarlett helpless in Atlanta with a pregnant woman on her hands and two armies between her and home.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  She looked worse than any pregnant woman she had ever seen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  No lady ever showed herself when she was pregnant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  Her sharp trading was shocking, especially when her poor mother had been a Robillard, and it was positively indecent the way she kept on going about the streets when everyone knew she was pregnant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  And I know I'm not a gentleman, in view of the fact that pregnant women do not embarrass me as they should.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
8  Their disapproval had grown stronger because of her unwomanly conduct in the matter of the mills, her immodesty in showing herself when she was pregnant and so many other things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
9  She hadn't wanted to see him at all when she was so obviously pregnant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
10  When Dr. Meade told her she was pregnant, she was astounded, for she had been expecting a diagnosis of biliousness and over-wrought nerves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
11  No multitude of words could have been more significant than those moments of silence, or more pregnant with the first-felt throbbings of desire.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In X
12  The words of Gamut were, as has been seen, in his native tongue; and to Duncan they seem pregnant with some hidden meaning, though nothing present assisted him in discovering the object of their allusion.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
13  Presently there was a stillness, pregnant with meaning.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
14  The angel bade the pregnant Hagar return to her.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  She had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
Example Sentence:
1  First they announce their engagement and then they tell me Angie's pregnant - it's all a bit sudden really.
2  I knew right away that I was pregnant.
3  A woman is pregnant for ten months before a child is born.
4  She was pregnant by a former client.
5  The pregnant woman in such a community has the support of all the womenfolk in her extended family.
6  He was old enough to sleep with a girl and make her pregnant.
7  She's five and a half months pregnant.
8  Alcohol should be consumed in moderation, and this is particularly true for pregnant women.
9  I was pregnant with our third child at the time.
10  People who employ pregnant women and children in hazardous occupations do so because such labor is cheaper than the labor of adult men, it's a simple matter of maximizing profits.
11  Hossam's wife is pregnant and they have nowhere to go except waiting new baby.
12  Nausea, vomiting in pregnancy occurs in up to 90 percent of women who are pregnant, and has a huge spectrum.