How to Use mother in a Sentence

mother

1 of 2 noun
  • My mother said that this was true.
    — Nicholas Dawidoff, New Yorker, 10 May 2026
  • My mother had told me to do this.
    — Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The mother was shot in the arm.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The book did make my mother feel weird.
    — Literary Hub, 27 May 2026
  • My mother died two years ago this month.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Things that your mother would ask you.
    — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Nicky’s mother is among the first to die.
    — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • That same year, his mother died.
    — Tricia Escobedo, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
  • No, his mother didn't drink them.
    — Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Their mother is afraid to drive them to school.
    — Wendi C. Thomas, ProPublica, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Sashko’s mother helped take care of him.
    — James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
  • Barnes and his mother were at home when the storm hit.
    — Victor Jacobo, CBS News, 13 June 2026
  • On that bed my mother would stroke my hair and hands.
    — Chiara Barzini, Vogue, 9 May 2026
  • My mother felt grit on her skin and the fumes gagged her.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • The mother seemed aghast and at a loss as to what to do.
    — Judith Martin, Dallas Morning News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Her mother wipes her mouth with the back of her hand and smiles.
    — Maggie O’Farrell, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
  • Your mother buys you sweaters, maybe, and still buys you nice shirts.
    — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
  • His mother was 19 when he was born.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 19 May 2026
  • My mother was like, ‘What does this mean?
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 20 June 2026
  • No choice a mother made could spare her from the Hole.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Apr. 2026
  • My poor mother had to work as a maid in the village.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Ali goes off screen to tell Rue’s mother of her death.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2026
  • The mother looks at me, but has no answer.
    — ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Your mother is at the foot of her bed watching over her.
    — Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • At the time, his mother was just 16 years old.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026
  • My mother was being asked to start her life over again.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • As a child, Zohran grew up around his mother’s movies.
    — Makena Gera, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Their mother had dared their father to crash the car.
    — Weike Wang, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
  • My mother’s womb has remained a closed book to me.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • My mother couldn't afford it back in the day.
    — Siafa Lewis, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026

mother

2 of 2 verb
  • I hope to mother at least one child.
  • She mothered two sons but no daughters.
  • Dana is really mothering to her fullest at the top of the hour.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Women can’t mother their children, who grow up with problems of their own.
    — Kelan Lyons, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Using your moon sign can help you to mother yourself and honor your own comfort zone.
    — Glamour, 31 May 2022
  • One of her reasons for leaving was to focus on mothering her two daughters.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 28 May 2025
  • The slang term — without an article in front — is used by fans, brands and sometimes even mothers themselves.
    — Ben Kesslen, New York Times, 13 May 2023
  • Tanisha is, in fact, just Davina’s little sister, although she is forced to mother her.
    — Kyesha Jennings, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2021
  • That divine feminine energy and the space to create and to mother a project.
    — Reanna Cruz, Vulture, 25 June 2024
  • But all goes haywire when Joanna attempts to mother her aunt instead of her baby.
    — Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Everyone has important female figures in their lives who, in some way, have helped to mother them.
    — Rachel Besser, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2021
  • My mother lost her own mother at 14 and was never fully mothered back to wholeness.
    — Eli Raphael, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
  • Queen Ramonda is still there to mother the entire kingdom so that Shuri doesn’t have to grow up.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Key strands of the film are about mothering with laser focus on the parents played by Okonedo and Mallen.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Really, the album is about tiring of mothering men who are great in bed but lack crucial social skills.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The Audubon Zoo is optimistic that Menari will be able to mother the child once the infant is stronger.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The cubs were born to mother Amur tiger Zoya and father Pavel, and were Zoya's first children.
    — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Kela immediately took to mothering the feline alongside the rest of her brood.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2023
  • During her speech, the 71-year-old thanked both her daughters for the opportunity to mother them.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Beginning with Ethel Cain, mothers will be mothering all throughout the year.
    — James Factora, Them, 16 Jan. 2025
  • However, their disappearance may have aroused in her that feeling to mother the motherless chick.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2023
  • One way to combat that, as a gardener, is to start plants by seed instead of buying plants that someone else has started, watered and mothered for months.
    — Henry Homeyer, The Providence Journal, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Doug encouraged Ashley to try and mother a reluctant Eva who was only 9 years younger.
    — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Doug encouraged Ashley to try and mother a reluctant Eva who was only 9 years younger.
    — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Somehow mothering four children, leading a massive pop resurgence, and still making time for a fun night with her girlfriends for a glass of wine (or seven).
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Free motherhood looks like being able to mother my kids without the judgment of society, without the pressures of this is how it's supposed to be.
    — Djeneba Aduayom, refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2022
  • During the foster season, officials move captive pups into existing litters where they can be mothered by wild wolves.
    — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Sekani recovered from the procedure, but never showed any interest in mothering her infant.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Virginia Dulles was the opposite of Louanne Bixby—even a hundred children couldn’t exhaust her need to mother them.
    — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Perhaps pasta or pizza with cheese is so comforting because we’re literally being mothered by flowering plants and bovines?
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026

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