childless

Example Sentences

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But for childless investors, inheritance isn’t the primary issue.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

I arrived at “Bluey’s Best Day Ever!” as a childless columnist, and yet I came away enchanted by what Disneyland’s live entertainment team, led by Susana Tubert, had concocted.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

A renowned theater director who has embarked on a kind of permanent vacation in his 60s, he continues: “I am wifeless, childless, brotherless, sisterless, I am my well-known self, made glittering and brittle by fame.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

British columnist Zoe Williams wondered in The Guardian how she would feel to receive such a letter from "childless" President Emmanuel Macron.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

She knew that his wife had died childless, and that he had always wanted a son—he was praying still, he told her, that God would bless him with a son.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin