Example sentences for: fathered

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

  • Herbert notes that NAACP president Kweisi Mfume is not well positioned to lead this fight, having fathered "five children by four women in 21 months."

  • The WP reports that the recent DNA test revelation that Thomas Jefferson almost certainly fathered a child with one of his slaves has energized an Illinois family's previous claim that it is descended from a liaison between a son of George Washington and one of his slaves.

  • Saul Bellow, 84, last month fathered a child born to his fifth wife, age 41.

  • The Coloureds, fathered by whites upon Hottentots, are poor and therefore good, naturally qualified by their lack of book-learning to fix a broken gadget or a leaky faucet.

  • According to the Enquirer , John Clark, who has been married to Redgrave for more than 30 years, fathered a child eight years ago by his personal assistant.


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