How to Use maternal in a Sentence

maternal

adjective
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  • Doctors are concerned about the effects of the drug on maternal health.
  • Fairy tales tell us stepmothers are evil creatures, incapable of maternal love and care.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The South is home to swaths of rural communities lacking maternal health care.
    — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Her work depicts the essence of the maternal figures in her life, including her mother, aunt and grandmother.
    — Steven Vargasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2023
  • To learn more about Oula and its innovative approach to maternal health care, visit oulahealth.com.
    — Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Hudson also spent a lot of time with her maternal grandmother, whose mother was Choctaw and grew up on a reservation.
    — Eva Recinos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Other research has assessed sleep training and maternal mental health in a rigorous fashion, with varying results.
    — Jasmine Mote, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Laila and Nadia’s maternal grandmother, Nabila, was, and remains, a huge influence on both of them.
    — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The name comes from her maternal clan, the Bear Clan, and the arrow on the firm's logo honors her dad's warrior sign.
    — The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Over half the state counties are defined as a maternal care desert.
    — Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 20 May 2024
  • This is because maternal age is one of the key risk factors for Down syndrome.
    — Robin Elise Weiss, Phd, Parents, 30 July 2024
  • Georgia is one of the states with the highest rates of maternal mortality.
    — Caitlin Huey-Burns, CBS News, 17 June 2023
  • The prospects of a state committee that was formed to study maternal mortality are also up in the air.
    — Brittany Shammas and Marisa Iati, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Three out of four bases in primary care deserts are also in a mental health care desert, a maternal care desert, or both.
    — Brent Jones, NPR, 17 June 2024
  • Then, many new parents do not have nursing and maternal care visits or paid parental leave.
    — Steven Berkowitz, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2023
  • In his own speech, Oyelowo again touched on Winfrey's maternal influence in his life.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2023
  • In the meantime, Squires sees the benefit of taking advantage of the maternal vaccine for RSV.
    — Alice Park, Time, 21 Aug. 2023
  • My mother and deceased maternal grandmother did not have the chance to explore the world when their children were young.
    — Essence, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The image makes for a neat — perhaps too neat — metaphor for the tentacular reach of memories passed down the maternal line.
    — Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
  • His grandfather was a watchmaker, and his two maternal grand-uncles had built cars and even an airplane in the 1920s.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 30 July 2023
  • Likewise, the maternal mortality rate has more than doubled in the last 20 years.
    — Natasha Pearlman, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Keough portrays the family’s maternal figure, and Christophe Zajac-Denek plays the youngest sasquatch.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2024
  • In the end, his test came back negative, so it’s believed that the mutation came from Dedmon’s maternal side.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Your state had one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country according to the CDC, up until about 2021.
    — CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
  • On the next day, Dunning’s maternal grandfather passed away in South Korea.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
  • Walrus calves depend on maternal care for the first two years of their lives, and when this walrus was found there was no adult walrus in sight, according to the center.
    — Sara Smart, CNN, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Black women have a maternal mortality rate about three times the rate for white women.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • In the cells that produce eggs and sperm, the maternal and paternal copies of the chromosomes line up and swap corresponding segments of DNA.
    — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2023
  • My maternal grandfather owned a music store and my mother played the piano.
    — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Every summer of our childhood, the three of us were shipped off to our maternal grandmother’s cottage on the Michigan-Indiana border.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2024

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