birthday

Example Sentences

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She had just celebrated her birthday and had got engaged during the trip, "and then she is just gone", her mother, Yolanda Endres, said.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

She was walking on the pavement with her son just outside Grove Park in south London on his birthday last October, when she was hit by a speeding Forest dockless hire e-bike.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

It does not, however, mean that her two children receive birthday cards with $19,000 checks inside.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

Lawyers for Dow Jones said the article was true, and they cited a subsequent release of the letter by the House Oversight Committee, which received a copy of the birthday book from Epstein’s estate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

Mr. and Mrs. Fox were lucky parents; about half of American babies born in the mid-1800s died before their fifth birthday.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock