Example sentences for: fathers

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

  • Celebrity fathers who don't want to know their out-of-wedlock offspring and celebrity mothers who don't want to know the fathers of their out-of-wedlock children have also been in the news.

  • With children who are literate but not large, and omnipresent X-rated news, mothers and fathers have been in for a lot of lip-biting, brow-furrowing, and earnest throat-clearing.

  • As Lacan progresses through psychiatry, World War II (as a doctor in France), surrealism, psychoanalysis, structuralism--Lacan's life was apparently a magnet for everything intellectually interesting happening in France: He was, for example, Picasso's personal doctor--he seems to have had a knack for finding useful fathers.

  • Later scholarship suggests that the city fathers were taken for a ride, the word apparently being widespread in Victorian languages and meaning buttocks.

  • At the south end of the square is the 14th-century Loggia della Signoria or dei Lanzi, transformed from the city fathers’ ceremonial grandstand into a guardroom for Swiss mercenary Lands­knechte.


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