Explore Miscarry through 8 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like fail or succeed. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Miscarry meaning
- To have an unfortunate accident of some kind; to be killed, or come to harm.
- To go astray; to do something wrong.
- To have a miscarriage; to involuntarily abort a foetus.
Using Miscarry
- The main meaning on this page is: To have an unfortunate accident of some kind; to be killed, or come to harm. | To go astray; to do something wrong. | To have a miscarriage; to involuntarily abort a foetus.
- Useful related words include: fail, go wrong, succeed, abort.
- In the example corpus, miscarry often appears in combinations such as: to miscarry, would miscarry.
Context around Miscarry
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Miscarry
- In this selection, "miscarry" 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, women, rose and naturally stand out and add context to how "miscarry" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include didn t miscarry her twins and her to miscarry. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "miscarry" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with miscarry
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I prayed I would miscarry naturally beforehand to alleviate the guilt. (11 words)
We declare that anything that's been conceived in Satanic wombs, that it'll miscarry. (15 words)
The team found that the chance a woman would miscarry rose by 1.5 per cent per delayed Carnegie stage. (20 words)
Afia Schwarzenegger during a show on Angel FM threw a shade at Mzbel indicating that she didn’t not get pregnant and didn’t miscarry her twins as she made everyone believe. (32 words)
At eight weeks post-conception, this was equivalent to the embryos that went on to miscarry being delayed in development by about four days, according to the researchers. (28 words)
A man will face 12 years behind bars for sexual assault and forcing a pregnant woman to miscarry by covertly giving her abortion medication. (24 words)
Example sentences (8)
At eight weeks post-conception, this was equivalent to the embryos that went on to miscarry being delayed in development by about four days, according to the researchers.
The team found that the chance a woman would miscarry rose by 1.5 per cent per delayed Carnegie stage.
A man will face 12 years behind bars for sexual assault and forcing a pregnant woman to miscarry by covertly giving her abortion medication.
Afia Schwarzenegger during a show on Angel FM threw a shade at Mzbel indicating that she didn’t not get pregnant and didn’t miscarry her twins as she made everyone believe.
I prayed I would miscarry naturally beforehand to alleviate the guilt.
We declare that anything that's been conceived in Satanic wombs, that it'll miscarry.
At a distance of 400 parasangs from Rome it roars, and all pregnant women miscarry and all the walls of Rome fall down.
In 1872, on a home visit to England, Mary Munro was charged by a cow, and the shock caused her to miscarry.
Common combinations with miscarry
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to miscarry 3×
- would miscarry 2×