womb

Example Sentences

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He was born in Los Angeles to a white American mother and a Japanese father, the latter effectively disowning him while he was still in the womb.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Keenan argued that workers’ compensation law, which bars employee lawsuits over work-related injuries, also prohibited the child’s claims, because a fetus in an employee’s womb was effectively an employee herself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

A woman who was born without a womb and told she would not have children of her own went on to help deliver her biological son - who is about to celebrate his first birthday.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

She had a hysterectomy last year to remove her womb alongside her appendix and is now paying privately for physiotherapy.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026

And so when their wives were both with expectant happiness, they vowed, even before the babies left the womb, that should one be a girl and the other a boy, they would be married.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord