mama
Example Sentences
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"Now you come here to ask me favors. But what were you but a raggedy, bare-bottomed little boy like all the rest once upon a time, crying for your mama when Sheba passed by?"
From Literature
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My mama’s name is Ida, and even though our names are near-to-identical, my daddy says them real different.
From Literature
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And I had to be a good mother like my own mama was.
From Literature
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"I get to my mama's house and I saw some shampoo bottles on the table," Miller said in a post-fight interview in the ring.
From BBC
“Your mama is more fragile than people think. And since your grandma died, there’s been nobody lookin’ out for her.”
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.