Example sentences for: new-born

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

  • In order to "turn" this person, it is necessary for the vampire to drain the victim's tank and top it off at the crucial moment with a quart or so of his own blood, whereupon the thirsty recipient becomes a "new-born vampire weeping at the beauty of the night."

  • When Jesus was born in about 4 b.c. , Joseph and Mary escaped Herod’s paranoia by fleeing into Egypt with the new-born infant.

  • Inside the temple is a small birthing chamber or mammisi, where carved reliefs depict Isis holding her new-born son Horus.

  • The argument he uses is that people tend to praise what is recent: “That all with one consent praise new-born gauds” is the line that follows, and the implication is clear-- that this is what links mankind, this tendency to focus only on the new and conveniently forget the past.


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