How to Use birth certificate in a Sentence

birth certificate

noun
Definition of birth certificatenext
  • My birth certificate doesn’t have a name on the spot for the father . . .
    — Noah Schaffer, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2022
  • The time stamp on her birth certificate would be 3:42 a.m.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 10 June 2020
  • The boy did not live long enough to be given a birth certificate.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Galdamez asks to have the dusty copy of her son’s birth certificate mailed to her.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2021
  • There, Dana gave birth to a son, Harper, and once again left the father's name off the birth certificate.
    — CBS News, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The first time Lynly Egyes met her, Borjas pulled a birth certificate out of the bag.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2020
  • More people are eager to find out their age—and not the one on their birth certificate.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Obama did have a long-form birth certificate, and the White House released it.
    — Dan Merica, CNN, 10 Apr. 2022
  • To sign up, adults need their ID and birth certificate for each child enrolling in the program.
    — Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The answers come in all over the place, often a decade or three younger than what’s on their birth certificates.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
  • The little girl was also born at home and does not have a birth certificate, the complaint says.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Maren’s father left was her birth certificate, which prompts her to hit the road in search of her mother.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2022
  • In 2000, no U.S. birth certificate recorded the name Hermione.
    — WSJ, 31 Dec. 2021
  • On the infant’s birth certificate, Bonnie lied about her age to keep Jim out of jail.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
  • His polish and sense of purpose caused a man from the audience to ask for a peek at the teen’s birth certificate.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Some states in the US will not add the parent to the birth certificate unless those circumstances are met.
    — Allison Hope, Parents, 4 Feb. 2024
  • But with Parker, there was no legal battle to get the dads' names added to the birth certificate.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN, 6 Mar. 2021
  • When Parker was born in 2019, getting the three-name birth certificate was a slam-dunk.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Pye was angry with Yarbrough because that man had signed the birth certificate of a child Pye claimed was his.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
  • When no one was looking, Homeira Qaderi added her own name to her son’s birth certificate.
    — Rebekah Denn, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The child did not have Doug's last name and Doug was not listed as the father on the original birth certificate.
    — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Once abroad, someone with means might be able to shop for a fake birth certificate, Connolly told The Sun.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2023
  • To apply, parents will need to bring their child's birth certificate and the parent's ID.
    — Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Prudhomme had asked her sister, Dianne, to mail her birth certificate to her home in Clear Lake near the end of 1989.
    — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Instead, Jenner said in the episode that his birth certificate still has the original name Wolf on it.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Instead, under the passed law, students may need to provide a birth certificate that was filed around the time of their birth.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 1 June 2021
  • Without a birth certificate, the couple wouldn’t be able to legally take her out the country.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
  • When their daughter was born in March 2018, Ashley didn't inform Doug and did not put his name on the birth certificate.
    — Paul Larosa, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Already in states like Texas, trans people can no longer correct the gender marker on their birth certificates.
    — Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
  • In Ohio, a procedure for transgender people to change their birth certificate was established by the Ohio Department of Health in 2021.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024

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