bairn

Example Sentences

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"He just wants people to remember not to take their eyes off their bairns because it all happened so quickly," she said.

From BBC

Meals are served by the Dane’s spectral children, who recall — to Louie and to us — the malevolent bairns in “The Turn of the Screw.”

From New York Times

It was originally a "monthly miscellany" which was designed to be "especially a friend of the mothers, wives, daughters and bairns of Scotland".

From BBC

"I'm lucky really. She lives with me mam. I'm lucky my mam could do that. Lots of lasses have their bairns taken away. "I want the best for her, you know?

From BBC

They were even expecting a wee bairn, the perfect way to further solidify a relationship already tested by so much trauma.

From Los Angeles Times