Stillborn is an English word with synonyms like abortive or unsuccessful. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Stillborn in a sentence
Stillborn meaning
- Dead at birth.
- Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive.
Synonyms of Stillborn
Using Stillborn
- The main meaning on this page is: Dead at birth. | Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive.
- Useful related words include: abortive, unsuccessful, unfruitful, dead.
- In the example corpus, stillborn often appears in combinations such as: stillborn baby, to stillborn, was stillborn.
Context around Stillborn
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stillborn
- In this selection, "stillborn" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, declared, born, fife, baby, fetus and babies stand out and add context to how "stillborn" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include baby was stillborn which has and buried the stillborn fetus. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stillborn" sits close to words such as abidjan, acb and accesses, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stillborn
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Abi delivered their stillborn baby when she was 14 weeks along. (11 words)
She had to then deliver the stillborn baby, which “seemed insane in retrospect,” she said. (15 words)
Ben climbed the summit of Mount Everest, in the memory of his stillborn son Willem. (15 words)
During Japan's Heian Period, roughly 1,000 years prior to the Taisho Period, during which the anime and manga are set, Muzan Kibutsuji was declared stillborn after his heart stopped beating multiple times inside his mother's womb. (39 words)
Instead, she chose to give birth to a stillborn baby, a senseless deprivation of life for which, despite the outcry from women’s rights groups, only a custodial sentence can be appropriate. (32 words)
So I’m not a trustee of that any more, but I just ran a half marathon for a charity called Abigail’s Footsteps, which is for bereaved parents of stillborn babies. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Abi delivered their stillborn baby when she was 14 weeks along.
Akers said she had delivered a stillborn baby and told them about the bag and the closet.
Amanda Macauley shared the story of her second pregnancy and birth, when on April 13, 2014, her son was stillborn due to a uterine rupture.
During Japan's Heian Period, roughly 1,000 years prior to the Taisho Period, during which the anime and manga are set, Muzan Kibutsuji was declared stillborn after his heart stopped beating multiple times inside his mother's womb.
His and Dawn's fourth child, Poppy, was sadly born stillborn in August 2012, with Gary admitting he struggled to deal with "the scar that wasn't going to heal".
If there is an attempt to resuscitate a stillborn baby, that pressure can inflate the lungs.
Instead, she chose to give birth to a stillborn baby, a senseless deprivation of life for which, despite the outcry from women’s rights groups, only a custodial sentence can be appropriate.
Last spring, police in Norfolk, Nebraska, got a tip that a pregnant teenage girl had miscarried and that she and her mother had secretly buried the stillborn fetus.
Prosecutors said Celeste Burgess gave birth to the stillborn fetus about 29 weeks and five days into her pregnancy.
She had to then deliver the stillborn baby, which “seemed insane in retrospect,” she said.
So I’m not a trustee of that any more, but I just ran a half marathon for a charity called Abigail’s Footsteps, which is for bereaved parents of stillborn babies.
Tragically, one year later, the couple faced another devastating loss when their son Oscar was stillborn at 25 weeks.
A memorial to Fife stillborn babies in St Andrews Western Cemetery, with Pearl’s cross in the foreground.
Before her husband was elected president, Kennedy Onassis had a miscarriage in 1955 and gave birth to a stillborn baby girl in 1956.
Ben climbed the summit of Mount Everest, in the memory of his stillborn son Willem.
But Harvey insisted she had never taken them and instead gave birth to a stillborn child in the bathroom of her home in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, in September 2018.
Early last year, Caroline Ikendi was in distress after undergoing an emergency Caesarean section to remove a stillborn baby and save two others.
Even if the poor baby was stillborn - which has yet to be determined - disposing of a baby as if it was trash shows the evil of this woman.
Ohio woman who gave birth to a stillborn and allegedly tried to flush the fetus down a toilet will not be criminally charged, a grand jury decided Thursday.
The Balfour Declaration was not just a dead letter, it was a stillborn letter that never drew a single metaphorical breath.
Common combinations with stillborn
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- stillborn baby 18×
- to stillborn 14×
- was stillborn 9×
- of stillborn 6×
- stillborn children 6×
- delivered stillborn 4×
- stillborn in 4×
- stillborn and 4×
- the stillborn 3×
- stillborn babies 3×