Example sentences for: fathered

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

  • Whether charging that Thomas Jefferson took a slave as his mistress or that Grover Cleveland fathered an illegitimate child, opponents have long assailed the morals of presidential aspirants.

  • The cover story reports on new DNA tests confirming that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child by his slave Sally Hemings.

  • When one of these women gave birth to a child without knowing which sailor had fathered it, the paternity was logged as “gun,” perhaps alluding to the midship gun, which was often located near the makeshift maternity room.

  • Soon after capturing what would become a safe seat, he fathered one of the unlikeliest pieces of legislation to emerge from Congress: a bill creating an apolitical process for closing obsolete military bases.

  • Most of the nine or 10 men I interviewed at the shelter spoke of their experience in overtly moralistic terms: They talked about taking responsibility for themselves, for the money they earned, and even for the children whom they had fathered and then neglected.


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