maternal

Example Sentences

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Back then, Daisy wasn't particularly maternal and she remembers the diagnosis vividly and how "unfair" it felt that her friend who had always wanted to have a child couldn't.

From BBC

Were they going to focus on passing widespread legislation improving maternal health and making it easier for families to increase their size?

From Washington Post

In the gentle pregnant woman who takes him in, Beau — having been cast out as “a demon” by his surrogate mother, Grace — sees the idealized maternal figure he has been seeking all his life.

From Los Angeles Times

Simone lives among women; the AI is maternal — it’s called Madonna in Italy and Mama in Spain — and speaks to Simone mainly through women; women, meanwhile, guard the grail.

From Los Angeles Times

It is one of the reasons Black maternal mortality rates remain stubbornly high, she said, even among high-income families — and even as Black teenage pregnancies have plummeted in the decades since her first study.

From Seattle Times