How to Use daughter in a Sentence

daughter

noun
  • We have a daughter and two sons.
  • The man fled the scene as the victim’s daughter called 911, MacArthur said.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Hali had been 13, the second-to-youngest of her four daughters.
    Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
  • My plan was to take my daughter on the road after that.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2023
  • And their daughters were the ones that were making all the trouble, running with the boys and all that.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Green and her 16-year old daughter, Allyssa, stopped by to pick up supplies.
    Silvia Foster-Frau, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
  • But your son should work with his daughter to teach her how to be a better guest.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The album also has a verse from Ye’s daughter North West.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The compartment was warm as toast, with two berths wide enough to share with our daughters.
    Monisha Rajesh, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Their kids, daughter Sterling, 3, and son Bronze, 1, still opened presents.
    Sean Gregory / Dallas, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
  • At the park, a seven-year-old girl started talking to me about my daughter.
    Thomas Lake, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The 42-year-old who served in the US Marines is now an attorney who is married and has two young daughters.
    Rafael Romo, CNN, 9 Sep. 2023
  • In this coming-of-age novel, readers get a glimpse of life through the eyes of the family’s youngest daughter.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 22 Jan. 2024
  • And, a mother and daughter pair left with a puppy named Asher to surprise the rest of the family.
    Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
  • At the same spot, a man pushed his young son through the wire before handing his daughter, a toddler, to her brother.
    Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2023
  • My young daughters, 4 and 6, are starting to ask tough questions about what gender means and looks like.
    Taylor Grothe, Parents, 12 July 2023
  • The daughters are all now in their 50s and for decades everyone in the family has known — except her.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • Johnson and Cookie are parents to son EJ, 31, and daughter Elisa, 28.
    Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Cooper’s six-year-old daughter, Lea De Seine, was even there posing with A-listers at the event.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Jackson has a three-year-old daughter with wife Jodie Turner-Smith.
    Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2023
  • Iman is also mom to daughters Cassie, 3, and Cali, 5, with her ex, Sterling Shepard.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Not only that, but his daughter Victoria, 14 at the time, also appeared in the movie.
    Adam England, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Iman had her daughter with fiancé Davon Godchaux, who proposed to her back in May.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The cousin then asked me about my daughter’s recent engagement.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • No one had seen or heard from him, including his daughters, Haley Kendall and Kennedy Wright.
    Natalie Morales, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Taylor, who also has two younger daughters, doesn’t yell at his kids and tear them down after games.
    Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2023
  • But much to his surprise, his daughter didn’t play basketball that day.
    Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
  • One day, Lena is forced to face her worst fear: her estranged teenage daughter vanishes.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Monét wrote the hit single from her latest album just eight weeks after her daughter was born; much like Hazel, the song was fate.
    Essence, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Seems like a tacky money grab for a privileged daughter.
    Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 21 July 2023

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