How to Use infant in a Sentence

infant

1 of 2 noun
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  • He showed us a picture of his infant daughter.
  • Lowry and Scott share infant twins Verse and Valley and son Rio, 15 months.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The care of the infants was paid for by the exhibit admission fee.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
  • She was blamed for the infant’s death, served prison time and self-exiled to New Orleans.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 28 July 2023
  • Even her infant son (actors Theodore and Lincoln Sykes) and her dog are caught up in the fun.
    — Alex Cramer, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Sully’s yet-to be named infant is the 34th gorilla born at the zoo, says the release.
    — Dave Alsup, CNN, 21 July 2023
  • The infant wore a blue and white-striped shirt with a pair of blue shorts that featured a lobster pattern.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Mothers held infants who stayed silent through the chanting.
    — Damien Cave, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Last month, a 6-year-old boy in Detroit shot his infant sibling twice.
    — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 18 July 2023
  • Some of the infants were sent last month to a child-care facility in Cairo with their mothers.
    — Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • And then my baby grew out of the infant stroller after using it only a few times.
    — Nena Farrell, WIRED, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Both sets of parents were told their infants had about a 40 percent chance of survival.
    — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Your child starts out sitting in the infant trike, then learns to steer, ride, and, finally, is off zooming!
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 11 July 2023
  • Baker was lynched, and his infant daughter, Julia, was shot and killed.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2023
  • One cherished photo shows King cradling and feeding his infant cousin on a couch.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Thompson launched that nonprofit group in 2018, five years after the death of her infant son.
    — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Each infant was positioned on the researcher’s lap about 30 cm (~11 in) from a translucent screen.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The infant was found in a crib suffering cardiac arrest near the mother.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Doing his best to avoid detection, Paul puts the care of his two infant children ahead of his own safety.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Inside the wagon are two men and two women, one holding an infant.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Despite the need to perpetually dodge streams of infant pee, however, life is good for the guy in the scaly, green-and-gold suit.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The infant manatees had to be bottle-fed every four hours.
    — Jason Gulley Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • While fawning at the infant, Ramirez escapes in an elevator with the chips.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
  • If the baby was born in Afghanistan, the infant would need a passport from the Taliban government to leave the country and immigrate to the United States.
    — Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
  • Most pack and plays are smaller than infant cribs, so a crib mattress wouldn’t fit properly.
    — Sarah Bradley, Parents, 30 June 2023
  • The infant involved in the fatal San Francisco bus stop crash has died, raising the death toll to four, officials said.
    — Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Made simply of paper, the set features high-contrast images in black and white, which young infants respond to best.
    — Bridget Shirvell, Parents, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Remember that infants should always sleep alone, on their backs, in an empty crib or bassinet.
    — Christin Perry, Parents, 31 Jan. 2024
  • In a sweet moment, Garrett then placed their infant’s hands on Williams’ growing belly.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The special care nursery was silent — no beeping machines or infants’ cries.
    — Claire Rush and Laura Ungar, Chicago Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
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infant

2 of 2 adjective
  • She is an infant teacher.
  • This week, there was little infant milk to be found in stores around Boston.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
  • The lab is the only one in the world using an infant metabolic chamber.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 12 June 2022
  • One was less than a month old, an infant girl from Fairfield County.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 5 Dec. 2022
  • For years the state has been trying to combat the infant mortality rate, one of the highest in the nation.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Forty years earlier, Biden’s wife and infant daughter had been killed in a car crash.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2019
  • This racial gap has continued to widen despite the improvement in the overall infant death rate in our area.
    — Brie Zeltner, cleveland.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • About a minute into the video, a man can be seen holding an infant girl in his arms and placing her on the porch outside the residence's front door.
    — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Angel is described as an infant girl with blue eyes and dark-colored hair with a reddish tint.
    — Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 24 June 2021
  • Lock arrived in Geneva in May, 1557, along with her son, Henry; her infant daughter; and her maid.
    — Jamie Quatro, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The infant mortality rate for black babies is three times as high.
    — Anna Claire Vollers, AL.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Ohio’s infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births is among highest in the U.S.
    — Laura Hancock, cleveland.com, 20 June 2019
  • The superstore has recalled infant rompers from Cloud Island and a swimsuit from Cat & Jack.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2020
  • The day he was killed, Rashawn was in the Mission after school with his two brothers, ages 6 and 12, along with his mother, Roxana Morales, and infant sister.
    — Evan Sernoffsky, SFChronicle.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • For the gallery above, Chron.com went with overall infant mortality rates.
    — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Ken was predeceased by his mother Eleanor and infant sister, Kathy Jo Stafford.
    — courant.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Among the models available are infant, convertible, and boosters for kids from newborns to 100 pounds.
    — Laura Sky Brown, Car and Driver, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Véronique Dufour is the deputy chief physician of the Paris maternal and infant protection center.
    — Alex Whiting, CNN, 3 July 2019
  • Cox and Dobrozsi, a pediatric oncologist who also worked at Children's, were in the process of adopting an infant girl in the spring of 2019.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 May 2022
  • Sixty percent of Guatemalans are poor, the bank says, while maternal and infant mortality rates are among the highest in the region.
    — Sonia Perez D., SFChronicle.com, 13 July 2019
  • In 1983, a baboon heart was transplanted into an infant girl known as Baby Faye.
    — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
  • There was an increase in infant mortality in poor areas of 20 states.
    — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 7 June 2017
  • Tom was predeceased in death by his parents and infant brother, Edmond.
    — courant.com, 10 June 2019
  • Besides his parents, he was predeceased by his brother Michael Petrozzi and an infant brother at birth.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Friends of a family who lost an infant girl and their home to a powerful storm in Birmingham are asking for help for that family.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 23 July 2022
  • There are, of course, also infant head injuries that occur because of the intentional actions of adults.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2022
  • So birth testing adds a step to most infant diagnosis programs.
    — Gbolahan Ajibola, The Conversation, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Officials said the project will also aim to improve maternal and infant health outcomes.
    — Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Midwives now attend to less than 10 percent of births in the United States, where the infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world.
    — Calley Hair, The Seattle Times, 23 July 2019
  • Many of them are also important during the fetal and infant stages of brain development.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2018

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