Parent

//ˈpɛəɹənt//

"Parent" in a Sentence (20 examples)

"Let me ask you something, Dad," she began, in a tone of patiently controlled exasperation that every experienced parent is familiar with.

A parent or teacher should bring home to children the pleasure of reading.

There is no satisfactory answer a parent can give to this.

Find things out for yourself instead of having a parent or a teacher tell you.

He's the new CEO from the parent company in France.

He has no sympathy for single parent families.

He is not your common doting parent.

A good coach is like a parent to the players.

"Eh? Where's Keiko?" "Said she's got a parent and child meeting so she'll be late."

As a parent I was in a truly pitiable state.

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After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle.

my trust / Like a good parent, did beget of him / A falsehood in it's contrarie, as great / As my trust was, which had indeede no limit, / A confidence sans bound.

And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind […]

The NHS is naturally pro-immunisation, reassuring parents that their babies can easily cope with these jabs.

It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.

Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry.

Indolence and unalimentary food are the parents of this disease; but to neither are Indians accustomed.

The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.

The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

However, even with money and caregivers, the child is left without a parent and most likely without a plan for their emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being. A time will come when you will no longer be able to parent your child, period.

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