afterbirth

Example Sentences

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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

She held on to this beautiful thought and the sound of her daughter snuffling as the pains of expelling the afterbirth came.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2018

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

I pulled this baby into the light of life, so I will bury the afterbirth and the cord that once linked him to eternity.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya