WOMB in a Sentence

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For WOMB, below is one of 21 sentences:
Even in the womb, Emmy Graham was different. "We called her squirmy from the moment I felt her move," says her mother, Kirsten.

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 Meanings and Examples of WOMB
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
womb
 n.  a place where something is generated; encompassing, protective hollow or space
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous fagots were thus bound together that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
2  It thrilled inside her body, in her womb, somewhere, till she felt she must jump into water and swim to get away from it; a mad restlessness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  At the same time, the infant crying in the night was crying out of his breast to her, in a way that affected her very womb.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  Connie had received the shock of vision in her womb, and she knew it; it lay inside her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
5  It was the stillness, and the timeless sort of patience, in a man impatient and passionate, that touched Connie's womb.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
6  There was something, a sort of warm naive kindness, curious and sudden, that almost opened her womb to him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
7  Men were awfully kind to Constance Reid or to Lady Chatterley; but not to her womb they weren't kind.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
8  Whilst all her womb was open and soft, and softly clamouring, like a sea-anemone under the tide, clamouring for him to come in again and make a fulfilment for her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
9  Another self was alive in her, burning molten and soft in her womb and bowels, and with this self she adored him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
10  In her womb and bowels she was flowing and alive now and vulnerable, and helpless in adoration of him as the most naive woman.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
11  And so it did, as if her womb, that had always been shut, had opened and filled with new life, almost a burden, yet lovely.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  She had a devil of self-will in her breast that could have fought the full soft heaving adoration of her womb and crushed it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  On this spring morning she felt a quiver in her womb too, as if the sunshine had touched it and made it happy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
14  He kissed her belly and her mound of Venus, to kiss close to the womb and the foetus within the womb.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
15  He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
Example Sentence:
1  Researchers are looking at how a mother's health can affect the baby in the womb.
2  A scan determines the position of the baby in the womb.
3  The baby's head was starting to emerge from the womb.
4  Even in the womb, Emmy Graham was different. "We called her squirmy from the moment I felt her move," says her mother, Kirsten.