children
Example Sentences
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His trial was a rare case in the US of a police officer charged with failing to protect children from criminal harm.
From BBC
The businessman was critically wounded while protesting on Jan. 9, and died a day-and-a-half later, leaving behind a widow and two young children, the relative said.
“Good Trouble” begins by tracing his footsteps growing up in Troy, Ala., where he was born on February 21, 1940, the third of 10 children to a sharecropping family.
From Salon
The risks are not uniform, with foetuses and young children most affected, and girls and women 52-percent more susceptible to the cancer-inducing effects of radiation than boys and men.
From Barron's
That echoed a 2019 remark: “We want babies not just because they are economically useful. We want more babies because children are good.”
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
