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Example sentences for "living child"

  • A woman who is pregnant with a living child, feels nothing of the sort; she may even dance or jump, and yet she feels no more of a living foetus than she does of her own liver or spleen.

  • Cachot relates the case of a woman of fifty-three, who was delivered of a living child by means of the forceps, and a year after bore a second child without instrumental interference.

  • Smith speaks of a legal case in which a girl, eleven years old, being safely delivered of a living child, charged her uncle with rape.

  • A dead child, born but a few hours earlier, was therefore easily substituted for the living child of Harold Mainwaring, while the latter was secretly conveyed to my own home.

  • Has it not been generally understood among those supposed to have knowledge of the facts in the case that Harold Scott Mainwaring, at the time of his death, had no living child?

  • But for this operation she probably would never have been blessed with a living child at all.

  • I knew one female who miscarried twenty-one times in succession, getting gradually nearer to the full period each time, till at last she reached nine months, and was rewarded with a living child.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "living child" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always have; baking dish; bearing north; emigration from; good humour; great centre; lady came; leave the; like structure; living animal; living bodies; living child; living creature; living creatures; living faith; living fire; living language; living person; living persons; living room; living soul; living standards; living stones; living thing; living things; living together