Dinner was just ready when they reached home, and their mammas were on the porch looking for them.
I hope ourmammas will not be alarmed about us, Gerty.
Her Mamma was very anxious about her daughter's future, as all good Mammas should be.
Innumerable were the calls made by prudent mammas on our new curate, and innumerable the invitations with which he was assailed, and which, to do him justice, he readily accepted.
Let mammas look after their little girls as much as they please, to prevent it, it is sure to happen to every one some day or other.
When I saw him kissing the little girls, I knew that he had captured the mammas, and the mammas govern the rural regions of Picardy.
Mammas must be troubled about their children sometimes; that's what being a mamma means.
Remember that a great proportion of these young ladies were brought here by their mammas, and in their secret souls would have rather been at a ball; but their mammas disapproved of balls, and made them do this instead.
I went up myself, and fretted and fumed like all young men awaiting their first assignation, like all young women whose mammas keep them in the house when they are burning to go out.
The mammas scolded the perpetrator of the mischief, the young ladies did the same, but I have reason to believe that many of them were not very angry.
Even the babies were trundled to the party by proud mammas and took naps in their carriages, or held receptions for admiring friends and neighbors with infantile dignity.
Babies crowed and prattled, mammas chatted together, old people found they had not forgotten how to laugh, and boys and girls rejoiced over the discovery of a new delight for holidays.
When they go to sleep also they are arranged in the form of a crescent; but the two ends are closed up, so that the Papas make a ring, while the Mammas and the children sleep inside the ring.
Besides, the babies themselves can smell the tiger when he is coming; then they call out to their Mammas by making a queer rumbling sound in their throats, and the Mammas come to them at once, before the tiger can get there.
Buffaloes Make a Ring when Tiger Comes The two ends of the crescent have come close together, and all the Papa buffaloes have made a perfect ring around the Mammas and the children.
You notice at once that the Mammas and the children do not show any fear at all, as they graze along; they are quite sure that the Papas are taking good care of them all the time.
And the Mammas can smell a tiger a little before he gets there, so that they have enough time to climb out of the water.
Because some enemy might try to attack the Mammas and the babies from the back; so these bull elephants are there to guard them.
But among most kinds of deer, only the Papas have the antlers; the Mammas have none.
You see, the Mammas and the babies are always in the middle, safe from all harm.
Among antelopes, when once the Papas and the Mammas have grown their horns, they keep them always.
In this way they leave enough grass for the Mammasand the young buffaloes that are following them.
Because even when the Mammas go into the water they keep their eyes on the babies, who play quite near by, so that the Mammas can come to them any minute.
No, there is no danger, for the Papas are taking good care of the Mammas and the children, as I have told you before.
Both the Papas and the Mammas among antelopes have horns.
So, as you see, the bull buffaloes guard the Mammas and the children from danger, and they also guard all small and weak animals that come to them for safety.
This arduous task accomplished, the fond mammas stepped back to enjoy the spectacle, which, I assure you, was an impressive one.
Our laudable efforts at cousinly friendship usually produce war-whoops that bring the two mammas each to snatch her own offspring from the fray, with a scolding for the sake of appearances though believing the other the only guilty party.
Family groups invariably are separated, and distracted mammas are running after children whom everybody wishes out of the way, giving utterance to hopes that they are not on shore.
And when the noon hour came their various mammas came to the school bringing lunches for the children.
Now when the Tortoise came to the school it was high noon, and all the children were waiting open-mouthed for their mammas and the lunches which they expected.
Rows of chairs, filled with mammas and little people, occupied the rest of the space.
But the picture of you trying to escape the engulfing flood of mammasis too much.
For instance, of course, you couldn't guess that half the match-making mammas of the county are already setting their caps for you.
After which our mammas wiped our foreheads, rearranged our dishevelled hair, and tore us away from the battle, of which we dreamed all night.
Let the papa without weakness cast the first stone at me; the mammas will avenge me.
Some young gentlemen had been heard to talk so loud that prudent mammas determined to retire judiciously, and the more discreet of the male sex, whose libations had been moderate, felt that there was not much more left for them to do.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mammas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
