afterbirth

Example Sentences

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He showed me one young lamb barely an hour old, its mother still licking the afterbirth off.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2024

I could almost taste the dough, yeasty and full like afterbirth.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2022

“It was years later,” says Reed-Allen now living in Urbana, Md., “when I realized afterbirth had been left inside me and that I could have died.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2021

During the three days I spend there, it smells strongly of afterbirth and the floor is flecked with blood and dirt.

From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2017

When a mother delivers her babe, parsley seeds aid in bringing away the afterbirth cleanly.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein