Sentence Examples

1. Her maternal grandfather was one of the first farmers in the area and a fundamentalist Seventh-day Adventist.
2. I never knew my maternal grandmother, because she died of breast cancer when my mother was only twenty, three years before she even had me.
3. She quashed the ache of maternal longing in her belly and nodded, too choked up to voice her assent.
4. Edward begged for a long while, the maternal kiss probably not offering sufficient recompense for the trouble he must take to obtain it however at length he decided, leaped out of the window into a cluster of heliotropes and daisies, and ran to his mother, his forehead streaming with perspiration.
5. Madame de Villefort at this really did turn pale, and was very nearly angry with this household plague, who answered to the name of Edward but the count, on the contrary, smiled, and appeared to look at the boy complacently, which caused the maternal heart to bound again with joy and enthusiasm.
6. John Knightley, that in spite of maternal solicitude for the immediate enjoyment of her little ones, and for their having instantly all the liberty and attendance, all the eating and drinking, and sleeping and playing, which they could possibly wish for, without the smallest delay, the children were never allowed to be long a disturbance to him, either in themselves or in any restless attendance on them.
7. Villefort, becoming somewhat reassured, perceived that to avert the maternal storm gathering over his head, he must inspire Madame Danglars with the terror he felt.
8. I knew she was fond of Gregg, and her maternal nature was stirred by his troubles.
9. I doubt not you will consider these praises the result of blind maternal affection, but there is a soul of iron in that delicate, fragile body.
10. At length she spoke, though her tones had lost their rich and calm fullness, in an expression of tenderness that seemed maternal.