How do you use Birthmark in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like nevus or blemish, plus the exact meaning.
Birthmark meaning
A mark on the skin formed before birth.
Using Birthmark
- The main meaning on this page is: A mark on the skin formed before birth.
- Useful related words include: nevus, blemish, defect, mar.
- In the example corpus, birthmark often appears in combinations such as: birthmark on.
Context around Birthmark
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Birthmark
- In this selection, "birthmark" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, brown, extracted, monster, perhaps, relined and covering stand out and add context to how "birthmark" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a dark birthmark covering most and a monster birthmark that covered. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "birthmark" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with birthmark
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She has dark brown hair and a birthmark above her lips. (11 words)
She catches me looking at a dark patch on her cheek — a birthmark perhaps? (14 words)
He has black hair, dark-colored eyes, and a distinctive large brown birthmark on his left forearm. (17 words)
Derek told CBC’s Edmonton AM that he had no idea his dad was getting the tattoo, but he was suspicious when his mom Shanel Prue had asked him to take pictures of his birthmark. (35 words)
Doctors diagnosed Lily with Sturge Weber Syndrome after noticing the tot's birthmark - a layer of extra blood vessels - which covered a part of Lily’s brain and it also affected her eye. (33 words)
Don Wright, 40, from Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, saw his GP in 2013 when he found a small growth where a birthmark had once been. (25 words)
She catches me looking at a dark patch on her cheek — a birthmark perhaps? (14 words)
Example sentences (10)
Doctors diagnosed Lily with Sturge Weber Syndrome after noticing the tot's birthmark - a layer of extra blood vessels - which covered a part of Lily’s brain and it also affected her eye.
She catches me looking at a dark patch on her cheek — a birthmark perhaps?
He has black hair, dark-colored eyes, and a distinctive large brown birthmark on his left forearm.
Old marks mix with new, scars with faded tattoos of yesteryear’s Very Important Things, an extracted birthmark relined with crisp thin lines.
Plus, he said, even if they did remove the birthmark on my cheek, the hair would continue to grow.
Derek told CBC’s Edmonton AM that he had no idea his dad was getting the tattoo, but he was suspicious when his mom Shanel Prue had asked him to take pictures of his birthmark.
She has dark brown hair and a birthmark above her lips.
Don Wright, 40, from Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, saw his GP in 2013 when he found a small growth where a birthmark had once been.
Woman who had nine operations to remove a 'monster' birthmark that covered almost half her face now sees it.
Little Enzo Cestari, one, was born with a dark birthmark covering most of his forehead and stretching down one side of his nose.
Common combinations with birthmark
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- birthmark on 2×