mother
Frequently Asked Questions
- I’ve always wanted to be a mother.
- You should really listen to Mother—she has your best interests in mind.
- It’s just her nature to try to mother anyone who looks like they need help.
Example Sentences
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"My father came over from the Caribbean in 1956 and my mother is an Irish immigrant," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
Schayes recalled that when his mother told an aunt he intended to play professionally, the aunt questioned whether basketball was a suitable career for a “nice Jewish boy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
His sister, Francisco Jose's mother, could not come to Toledo.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
As in the original, Carrie’s mother, Margaret, is a conservative Christian who wants to shelter her daughter from the outside world as much as possible.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
Dr. Harlow says that after Phineas leaves Boston in 1850 he gets information about his former patient only from Phineas's mother.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Two other streaming series, “Crystal Lake” on Peacock and “Carrie” on Prime Video, place two of the horror genre’s most famous scary mothers in new contexts.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
Last month, the New York Times revealed that Marshall, a former OB-GYN, had sued hundreds of patients over unpaid bills, including new mothers.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026
She thinks all hospitals should provide meals for mothers, regardless of how they are feeding their babies.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Aeon Fantasy, an amusements subsidiary of the sprawling Aeon Group, opened its first area dedicated to food and household prizes targeting mothers in October 2025.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
“There will be no more fighting at this school. Not one more fight or I will call your mothers, you hear me?”
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
Playing a vain, pitch-perfect vision of Los Angeles’ wickedness in “Maps to the Stars,” Julianne Moore mothered so hard she almost separated California right down the San Andreas fault line.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
Missing being mothered has driven her to cultivate her Spanish skills, after a college counselor hints that “focusing on a new syntax of any kind could become an escape hatch into new habits of mind.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023
"But she also knew that mother is a verb as well as a noun and mothered so many others along the way who needed love and support throughout her life," she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2022
Nothing makes you want to be mothered quite so much as becoming a mother yourself.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2022
She wore satin gloves up to the elbow and mothered a long line of smelly dachshunds with tearstained eyes.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Paulson was not mothering one single bit, delivering marble-mouthed, bottom-of-the-Ryan-Murphy barrel insults on “All’s Fair.”
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
Would my mothering improve before the baby was born?
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
In her new Netflix movie “Goodbye June,” she’s the one who needs mothering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
Reflecting on her character's journey in the film, Adams explained: "Through her parenting - through her mothering - she got in touch with something bigger and something primal."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024
When I was eight, I found it weird how she was credited as a “beloved” mother when the only mothering she did was carry me for nine months; ten years later, I know much better.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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