PREGNANCY in a Sentence

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30 example sentences for PREGNANCY, such as:

1. She's randy from the pregnancy hormones.
2. Her first pregnancy ended in miscarriage.
3. Smoking during pregnancy endangers your baby's life.
4. She had never accepted the reality of her pregnancy.
5. She was lovely in the soft first flush of her pregnancy.

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 Meanings and Examples of PREGNANCY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pregnancy
 n.  condition of being pregnant; fruitfulness; fertility
Classic Sentence:
1  She was sick now, her pregnancy making itself felt in many unpleasant ways, but she refused to obey Dr. Meade's commands and stay in bed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  Yes, Scarlett was sick of it all, and that morning she wished that she, like Melanie, had the excuse of pregnancy to offer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  A queasiness of the stomach reminiscent of the early days of her pregnancy made the smoking yams on the breakfast table unendurable, even to the smell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  Frank, Pitty and the servants bore her outbursts with maddening kindness, attributing her bad disposition to her pregnancy, never realizing the true cause.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  Not only had she vomited before a man--in itself as horrible a contretemps as could overtake a woman--but by doing so, the humiliating fact of her pregnancy must now be evident.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  She looked up into his blank, smooth face and suddenly her irritation fell away, even as her embarrassment had disappeared after the conversation about her pregnancy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  Mrs. Meade was thin now, and Scarlett's pregnancy being advanced, the dress was doubly uncomfortable.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  "Scarlett ought to be in bed," insisted Mrs. Tarleton, running her eyes over her with the expert air of one who calculated a pregnancy to the last minute of its length.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
9  So, only half resigned to her fate, she spent most of her time with Scarlett, vicariously enjoying a pregnancy not her own.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  She did not mention the fact of her pregnancy, even to Hilda.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
11  She was lovely in the soft first flush of her pregnancy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
12  She paused as if she felt it indecorous to speak of her pregnancy before Pierre, though the gist of the matter lay in that.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII
13  One day I asked her if she felt any symptoms of pregnancy.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI
14  Occasionally, and it was always just after they had been happiest together, they suddenly had a feeling of estrangement and hostility, which occurred most frequently during Countess Mary's pregnancies, and this was such a time.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Most women will be offered an ultrasound scan during pregnancy, although it's not obligatory.
2  The best way to avoid pregnancy is total abstinence from sex.
3  Low birth weight may be caused by external factors , such as smoking during pregnancy.
4  It would be wiser to cut out all alcohol during pregnancy.
5  Smoking during pregnancy endangers your baby's life.
6  Her first pregnancy ended in miscarriage.
7  The second trimester is generally the easiest part of a pregnancy.
8  Smoking in pregnancy increases the risk of producing a low birthweight baby.
9  Drugs taken during pregnancy may cause physical deformity in babies.
10  A positive pregnancy test soon confirmed her intuitive feelings.
11  She had never accepted the reality of her pregnancy.
12  Besides watching your child grown, watching your wife go through her pregnancy is also an amazing, eye-opening experience.
13  She's randy from the pregnancy hormones.
14  A postdate pregnancy is a pregnancy that lasts longer than 42 weeks.
15  Our study shows that the pregnancy prevention programme delivered in Western Australia, which involves an infant simulator, does not reduce the risk of pregnancy. In fact, the risk of pregnancy is actually increased compared to girls who didn't take part in the intervention.