How to Use day care in a Sentence

day care

noun
Definition of day carenext
Synonyms for day carenext
  • She left work early to pick up her son from day care.
  • His cousin, Asean, was born in the same month and went to the same day care center.
    — Ryn Jirenuwat, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The day care is located at the end of a driveway off a cul-de-sac.
    — Rob Gillies, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
  • It has not yet been determined whether staff at the day care will be charged.
    — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • This time around Francona did it with a roster straight out of day care.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The Police Department's goal is to open its day care center by the fall of 2024.
    — Dana Rieck The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (tns), arkansasonline.com, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Many home day care centers have already had to close their doors.
    — cleveland, 18 July 2023
  • Brazil has seen at least one past attack on a day care center, too.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Pattikakes', a day care in Tewksbury for two decades, has shut down.
    — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2023
  • My bestie Emma used to pick him up from day care on Mondays and Fridays and take him to the park for a few hours.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Both claimed to be unaware of the drugs found at the day care, according to the federal complaint.
    — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Both claim to have been unaware of the drugs found at the day care, according to the federal complaint.
    — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • An hour before the flood, Yin was watching Zeni play at the day care via webcam.
    — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Co-owner Jason Starnes worked at the former day care for about four years.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The day care had a capacity of eight children and could take care of up to four infants at a time.
    — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Five moms and five babies call this home, with day care provided while the young moms — ages 12 to 18 — are at school or work.
    — Jacinda Palomo, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2023
  • Max Goes to the Dogs, in which the shih tzu/cocker spaniel/poodle mix heads to doggy day care and learns the joys of learning and playing with new friends.
    — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The mother of a 3-year-old told police her child had anxiety about going to day care and was afraid.
    — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Public health investigators searched their home and day care, but failed to find the source.
    — Will Fitzgibbon, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Madrid has free public day care for children up to age 3 (though free day care is not universal across Spain).
    — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
  • There’s doggy day care, axe throwing, an arcade, and more to come in the developing area.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Sheila Sanders, the day care owner for the last 20 years, was appalled by the former employees' behaviors.
    — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Bell prepared to move, shutting down her day care business the following month.
    — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The adult day care director there, Michelle Quiroga-Diaz, told me that when Saldana seems out of sorts, the staff has learned there’s a quick remedy.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • According to court documents, Brito is the cousin of Mendez’s husband and a tenant who lives in a bedroom within the day care.
    — Mark Morales, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The cost of preschool child care is a growing problem in Alaska, one of 33 states where the annual cost of day care exceeds the cost of college tuition.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The only complaint against the day care was about Greenwell’s conduct on video, which prompted the inspection, the spokesperson said in an email.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • But most inhumanely, the babies in the day care center were killed and many were beheaded.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • According to the day care’s website, child-care services have resumed.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • An employee told a Thai TV station that Panya's son had attended the day care but hadn't been there for about a month.
    — Tassanee Vejpongsa and David Rising, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022

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