Child means: A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority). Related words include offspring or juvenile. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Child in practice.
Child in a sentence
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Child meaning
- A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
- A youth aged 1 to 9 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 10 to 20 years.
Synonyms of Child
Child in Dutch
Example sentences (20)
Either a family consciously decides to expose a young child to tennis, or the child does not play, at least not seriously.
He later admitted attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming and attempting to communicate sexually with a child.
At that moment, the child tapped must jump up and chase the child who was “it” around the circle of kids.
Conversations are in turns hushed and high-pitched, in tune with the characters’ paranoia as polio spreads from child to child.
He had another child in his second marriage, which ended when their child was in elementary school.
Because of the high cost of child care, many families now wait to have a second child until their first begins school, at least part time.
Child E was a twin and was born prematurely alongside brother Child F in late July 2015.
Americans whether they would feel uncomfortable or comfortable letting their child spend time with a child who had not received the MMR vaccine.
A child pornography case in Leavenworth has led to an arrest thanks to a tip from the nation's largest and most influential child protection organization.
According to the old English nursery rhyme, “Thursday’s child has far to go” (traditionally understood to mean a child born on a Thursday will be successful).
If you are a child with special educational needs (SEN) or a parent seeking access to support for that child, the experience will likely be defined by struggle.
Essentially, there is little difference between an MEK child growing up at the group’s camp in Albania, and a North Korean child growing up in Kim Jong-un’s bubble.
According to the U.S Chamber of Commerce Foundation, in Arkansas 76% of parents miss work due to child care issues and 11% voluntarily left a job due to child care issues.
Deja Taylor, 25, of Newport News, is facing one felony count of child neglect and one misdemeanor count of recklessly storing a firearm so a child could gain access to it.
Child benefit is worth up to £1,331 a year for the first or only child and up to £881 a year for each additional child.
The ‘Save the Girl Child, Educate the Girl Child’ programme seeks to comprehensively address imbalance in child sex ratio.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Going to school not only sharpens a child’s mind but buys crucial time in their lives from being drawn into child marriage or child labour.
Child maintenance, or child support, are regular payments between the legal parents of a child when one parent does not live with the child.
First child (born on or after 6 April 2017)/ second child and subsequent child (where an exception or transitional provision applies) - £269.
Phrases with child
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with child
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the child 99×
- of child 27×
- child and 26×
- your child 20×
- child is 19×
- child care 18×
- child to 16×
- with child 16×
- child pornography 13×
- child in 12×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word child. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.