afterbirth

Example Sentences

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Because they feed primarily on cow afterbirth and calf carcasses, they help clean up messes and reduce labor time.

From Salon

For once, Deborah feels what it's like to be upstaged, whether by her ego, her prejudices, or, at a clarifying low point, an animal's afterbirth.

From Salon

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

From Salon

“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

They kept the exhausted Letay awake because of their belief that otherwise the afterbirth would fall back into her.

From Seattle Times