INFANT in a Sentence

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1. Tourism was then still in its infant stage.
2. The operation on the new born infant was a failure.
3. The nation's infant mortality rate has reached a record low.
4. An item of prominence on the conference agenda was infant health care.
5. On a global scale, AIDS may well become the leading cause of infant death.

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 Meanings and Examples of INFANT
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infant
 n.  child in the first period of life; young babe
Classic Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
1  I, their eldest child, was born at Naples, and as an infant accompanied them in their rambles.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  The infant had been placed with these good people to nurse: they were better off then.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  Its fair lakes reflect a blue and gentle sky, and when troubled by the winds, their tumult is but as the play of a lively infant when compared to the roarings of the giant ocean.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
4  There he stood, with a border of grizzled locks beneath his skull-cap, while his grey eyes, accustomed to the shaded light of his study, were winking, like those of Hester's infant, in the unadulterated sunshine.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
5  The infant, during the latter portion of her ordeal, pierced the air with its wailings and screams; she strove to hush it mechanically, but seemed scarcely to sympathise with its trouble.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
6  He examined the infant carefully, and then proceeded to unclasp a leathern case, which he took from beneath his dress.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
7  As she still hesitated, being, in fact, in no reasonable state of mind, he took the infant in his arms, and himself administered the draught.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
8  In this little lonesome dwelling, with some slender means that she possessed, and by the licence of the magistrates, who still kept an inquisitorial watch over her, Hester established herself, with her infant child.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
9  She possessed an art that sufficed, even in a land that afforded comparatively little scope for its exercise, to supply food for her thriving infant and herself.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
10  Except for that small expenditure in the decoration of her infant, Hester bestowed all her superfluous means in charity, on wretches less miserable than herself, and who not unfrequently insulted the hand that fed them.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
11  Mindful, however, of her own errors and misfortunes, she early sought to impose a tender but strict control over the infant immortality that was committed to her charge.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
12  Her mother, while Pearl was yet an infant, grew acquainted with a certain peculiar look, that warned her when it would be labour thrown away to insist, persuade or plead.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
13  The belief was a favourite one with our forefathers, as betokening that their infant commonwealth was under a celestial guardianship of peculiar intimacy and strictness.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
14  With these she decorated her hair and her young waist, and became a nymph child, or an infant dryad, or whatever else was in closest sympathy with the antique wood.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
15  He still walked onward, if that movement could be so described, which rather resembled the wavering effort of an infant, with its mother's arms in view, outstretched to tempt him forward.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
Example Sentence:
1  The operation on the new born infant was a failure.
2  The changing size of an infant's head is considered an index of brain growth.
3  An autopsy eventually ascribed the baby's death to sudden infant death syndrome.
4  On a global scale, AIDS may well become the leading cause of infant death.
5  An item of prominence on the conference agenda was infant health care.
6  The nation's infant mortality rate has reached a record low.
7  An infant school is a school for children from about five to seven years of age.
8  Tourism was then still in its infant stage.
9  The new mother didn't realize how much the effort of caring for an infant would hamper her ability to keep an immaculate house.
10  If the infant is able to clear the virus from their body this will occur within the first 2 years of life.
11  For Africa � right at the bottom of virtually every table - reducing infant mortality by two thirds and getting all its children into school look like an impossible dream until well into the twenty-second century.
12  The second son of the late duke seized the titles and estates -- the infant real duke was ignored.
13  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.
14  We peer in at ten infants through the glass walls of a new-born nursery, imagining the bright futures ahead in the 80 years of life they can expect.