How to Use pregnant in a Sentence

pregnant

adjective
  • There was a pregnant pause before the winner was announced.
  • She got pregnant soon after her marriage.
  • Erin was three months pregnant at the time and the wife of a marine.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 15 July 2022
  • 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
  • The woman who threw the first punch is four months pregnant.
    — cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The woman was pregnant, and worried about the risk of such a long flight.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • This could change, though, if Shiv turns out to be pregnant.
    — Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
  • George’s wife-to-be Olivia is very pregnant with their son, Dhani.
    — Kaleb Horton, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Lauren was eight months pregnant with her son, Luca, at the time of the crash.
    — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2022
  • And no, my mom was not pregnant with me when this happened.
    — Emily Monforte, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
  • His mother got pregnant and dropped out of high school at 15.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2022
  • Great news, sloth fans: Lightning the sloth is pregnant!
    — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Then, to our shock and amazement, my wife got pregnant.
    — Tim Maurer, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • That was the case for a surgeon who became pregnant with twins.
    — Miriam Shuchman, STAT, 9 May 2022
  • In the summer of 2020, Gentry was pregnant with her son, Kyrin.
    — Brook Endale, The Enquirer, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Pacheco has two small children and his wife is pregnant.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Some of them were pregnant, some of them much different sizes and shapes.
    — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Lindsey Schmidt, who was pregnant at the time, and her 19-month-old son, Kaleb, were pronounced dead at the scene.
    — Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Police learned that the woman, 24, of Maple Heights, was pregnant.
    — cleveland, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Wanting to take half the meal off his pregnant wife is [what’s] selfish.
    — Toria Sheffield, People.com, 16 Mar. 2025
  • To force pregnant women to carry to term is just wrong.
    — Jane Greenway Carr, CNN, 7 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Melendez's wife, Maria, is pregnant and has a 11-month-old son.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 July 2025
  • Hankison fired ten shots during the raid—none of which struck Taylor—but several bullets entered a neighboring apartment where a man, a pregnant woman, and a child were present.
    — Essence, 18 July 2025

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