How to Use pregnant in a Sentence

pregnant

adjective
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  • There was a pregnant pause before the winner was announced.
  • She got pregnant soon after her marriage.
  • The pregnant woman was a week and a half past her due date.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The owner of the pregnant dog declined to fix her pet, too.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • This could change, though, if Shiv turns out to be pregnant.
    — Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Rumer Willis, who is also pregnant, got in on the fun too.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The 28-year-old shared that he’d just been told his girlfriend was pregnant.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2023
  • About 14 years ago, the couple sought the support of a birth doula when Jones was pregnant.
    — Tatiana Parafiniuk-Talesnick, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Ashley, who was 11 weeks pregnant at the time, said she was raped by a stranger in the yard of the family's home.
    — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Ashley Brandt and her sister-in-law were pregnant with twins at the same time.
    — Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 22 June 2023
  • Some of them were pregnant, some of them much different sizes and shapes.
    — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Those who are pregnant or have given birth in the last six weeks are not allowed to give blood.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The women were pregnant at the same time again in 1958 and had their second kids within a three-week span.
    — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2023
  • For someone who is obese or pregnant, perform the thrusts around the chest instead of the abdomen.
    — Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 5 June 2023
  • And so, a pregnant woman with another small child out on the street in flip flops?
    — Kevin J. Beaty, NPR, 8 May 2024
  • The girl is estimated to be four to five months pregnant.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Of the six cats that received the treatment, two mated with males, per the New York Times, but none became pregnant.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2023
  • Her family confirmed that Mooney was two months pregnant at the time of her death.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Experts say the vaccine will not harm a pregnant person or the fetus.
    — Claire Wolters, Verywell Health, 17 May 2023
  • Earlier in the podcast, the model had talked about getting pregnant for the third time, and how the couple felt about it.
    — Jenny Haward, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The Abundant Birth Project started in June 2021 and plans to make a second round of grants to pregnant mothers this fall, the response says.
    — Ronnie Cohen | Kff Health News, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Anita Chabria: Supreme Court to pregnant women: Good luck with that.
    — Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Emma had to endure two more weeks in a pregnant body, one that kept growing.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Lively appeared, visibly not pregnant, in a shot of the pair that evening.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 31 May 2023
  • The pauses were pregnant, the eye contact was intense, and the internet lost its damn mind.
    — Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The researchers looked at deaths in women who were pregnant or were within a year of giving birth.
    — Janelle Chavez, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The same goes for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
    — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Yet, resources to help these women who become pregnant can be hard to find.
    — NBC news, 31 May 2023
  • Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter.
    — Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The audience watches a pregnant Elena, dressed in widow’s black, chopping onions, in the kitchen at Las Palomas Ranch.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024

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