How to Use pregnant in a Sentence
pregnant
adjective
- There was a pregnant pause before the winner was announced.
- She got pregnant soon after her marriage.
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The pregnant woman was a week and a half past her due date.
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Emily Alpert Reyes,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Sep. 2023
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The owner of the pregnant dog declined to fix her pet, too.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
20 Oct. 2023
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The woman who threw the first punch is four months pregnant.
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cleveland,
13 Oct. 2022
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The woman was pregnant, and worried about the risk of such a long flight.
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Anchorage Daily News,
20 Oct. 2022
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This could change, though, if Shiv turns out to be pregnant.
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Vulture,
2 Mar. 2023
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Rumer Willis, who is also pregnant, got in on the fun too.
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Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
7 Mar. 2023
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The 28-year-old shared that he’d just been told his girlfriend was pregnant.
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Cheryl V. Jackson,
The Indianapolis Star,
11 Apr. 2023
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About 14 years ago, the couple sought the support of a birth doula when Jones was pregnant.
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Tatiana Parafiniuk-Talesnick,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2023
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Lauren was eight months pregnant with her son, Luca, at the time of the crash.
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Nicholas Rice,
Peoplemag,
21 Oct. 2022
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Great news, sloth fans: Lightning the sloth is pregnant!
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Emily Deletter,
The Enquirer,
20 Oct. 2022
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Ashley, who was 11 weeks pregnant at the time, said she was raped by a stranger in the yard of the family's home.
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Rachel Scott,
ABC News,
22 Mar. 2024
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Ashley Brandt and her sister-in-law were pregnant with twins at the same time.
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Rose Minutaglio,
ELLE,
22 June 2023
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Some of them were pregnant, some of them much different sizes and shapes.
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Jason Sheeler,
Peoplemag,
9 Mar. 2024
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To force pregnant women to carry to term is just wrong.
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Jane Greenway Carr,
CNN,
7 Nov. 2022
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Those who are pregnant or have given birth in the last six weeks are not allowed to give blood.
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Cori Ritchey,
Men's Health,
31 Jan. 2023
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The women were pregnant at the same time again in 1958 and had their second kids within a three-week span.
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Mike Barnes,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Jan. 2023
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For someone who is obese or pregnant, perform the thrusts around the chest instead of the abdomen.
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Michael Menna,
Verywell Health,
5 June 2023
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The woman was 19 weeks pregnant, the fetus too young to survive outside the womb.
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Elizabeth Cohen,
CNN,
12 Oct. 2022
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And so, a pregnant woman with another small child out on the street in flip flops?
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Kevin J. Beaty,
NPR,
8 May 2024
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Holmes has a 16-month-old son with her partner, William Evans, and is pregnant with a second child.
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Irina Ivanova,
CBS News,
23 Nov. 2022
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The girl is estimated to be four to five months pregnant.
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Tresa Baldas,
Detroit Free Press,
9 Feb. 2023
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Of the six cats that received the treatment, two mated with males, per the New York Times, but none became pregnant.
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Will Sullivan,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 June 2023
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Her family confirmed that Mooney was two months pregnant at the time of her death.
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Summer Lin,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2024
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Among the five people killed in the district were a woman who was six months pregnant and her husband.
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Karina Zaiets,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2022
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Experts say the vaccine will not harm a pregnant person or the fetus.
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Claire Wolters,
Verywell Health,
17 May 2023
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Earlier in the podcast, the model had talked about getting pregnant for the third time, and how the couple felt about it.
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Jenny Haward,
Peoplemag,
3 Nov. 2023
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Like her mother, Lauren dropped out of high school and got pregnant, having a son at eighteen.
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Peter Hessler,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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The actress was pregnant then, expecting her second child with husband Yaron Versano.
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Renan Botelho,
WWD,
5 Jan. 2025
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