How to Use womb in a Sentence

womb

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  • Not just the nine months in the womb, but all the rest of the years.
    — Beverly Beckham, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The pups were exposed to wild bird scent right out of the womb.
    — Steve Meyer | Alaska Outdoors, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The First Star announces that all humankind was born out of the womb of Africa.
    — Essence, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The short answer is yes: Babies can and do hiccup in the womb.
    — Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Alexander played a video that showed a womb with a fetus.
    — Summer Linstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • No matter if that life is in the womb, or that life is in foster care.
    — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Science has revealed more and more of what's going on in the womb.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 26 June 2022
  • After six months or so in the womb of the cave, Flamini succumbed to its rhythms.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The primary job of hCG is to tell the body that there's life growing in the womb and that the body needs to build a nest for it.
    — Lambeth Hochwald, Parents, 7 Jan. 2024
  • James Leroy was born in August 1985; his twin died in the womb when Hall was five months pregnant.
    — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
  • This country, this globe, was built from a woman’s womb.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 27 June 2022
  • Twin 12-day-old babies, in the first TV credits of their (very young) lives, played Ellie fresh out of the womb.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The woman was 19 weeks pregnant, the fetus too young to survive outside the womb.
    — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
  • On the day of his birth, his mom was winding thread on the floor and Gemaly was unwinding rapidly out of her womb.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2022
  • To keep a baby that will not be able to live outside the womb or has no heart beat should not be forced to carry for 9 months.
    — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • To reach even larger adult sizes, females of each species would need to carry their babies in the womb for longer.
    — Riley Black, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
  • One was already out of the womb, another was halfway out, and the third was waiting for its chance.
    — Dave Kindy, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
  • When the right to carry a baby or not is no longer one’s own, the womb itself becomes property of the state.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2022
  • Violence made this place, like a body embroidered in the womb.
    — Tema Stauffer, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The sculptures, which are usually hand built, look almost as if they’ve been squeezed from a womb.
    — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Our baby was beginning his long journey out of the womb.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • The mother of the child survived the attack after being hit in the womb, the BBC reported Friday.
    — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Babies in the womb smile over carrots, grimace at kale, new fetus study finds.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2022
  • But the fetuses also paint pictures of life outside the womb.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
  • When Paisley was in the womb, Gardner and his wife, Jessica, played music from that genre to calm her down.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • As for sounds, white noise is a pretty fail-safe choice for most babies who are accustomed to the noise of their mother’s womb.
    — Sarah Bradley, Parents, 10 July 2023
  • And a child residing in a mother’s womb is not taking up an extra seat.
    — al, 9 July 2022
  • If not, the baby may die in the womb or be born with severe neurologic problems.
    — Judy Stone, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • The star also revealed the baby was born via C-section because of its position in the womb.
    — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 5 July 2023

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