Example sentences for: births

How can you use “births” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Ogburn began with population, since those changes "affect almost all the phenomena of social life," and went on to say : "Aviation will probably have the effect of reducing the number of births slightly."

  • This period is a compromise between providing recent estimates and ensuring enough births to reduce the effects of sampling error.

  • There remain, of course, a few social problems that really have gotten worse in the last few years, and Bennett, of course, eagerly cites them: a rising percentage of births to unwed mothers, rising marijuana consumption by high-school seniors, a growing and possibly indiscriminate tendency for doctors to prescribe Ritalin to children suspected of suffering from attention deficit disorder.

  • If the aforementioned qualms about multiple births don't seem decisive, the NYT has a more prosaic consideration: the 35,000 diapers that the septuplets' parents will have to change.

  • Seeing the “Announcements of Births” in a newspaper, he concluded that, by analogy, the “Announcements of Deaths” must be disannouncements .)


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