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.
  • The city has some of the highest rates of Black maternal and fetal death in the country.
    — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • There is this primal, maternal, innate need to save him and to save them.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Over half the state counties are defined as a maternal care desert.
    — Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 20 May 2024
  • Georgia earned a failing grade in a March of Dimes report on the state of maternal and infant health.
    — Kristal Dixon, Axios, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade is a major blow to maternal health.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 19 July 2022
  • The maternal mortality rate is among the highest in the world.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
  • This is because maternal age is one of the key risk factors for Down syndrome.
    — Robin Elise Weiss, Phd, Parents, 30 July 2024
  • Utah and Wyoming, which are trigger law states, have the lowest maternal poverty rates in the nation.
    — Elliott Ramos, NBC News, 1 July 2022
  • What caused the changes in maternal death during the pandemic.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • My maternal grandmother gave me the courage to go after my dreams.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The twins’ maternal grandmother also died in the airstrike.
    — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 14 Aug. 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
  • Zoya, an Amur tiger, was born at the Philadelphia Zoo, but her mother didn't have the maternal instincts to care for her.
    — Kelly Murray, CNN, 9 July 2022
  • 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
  • Ironically, the vice president was on Air Force Two on the way to discuss maternal health when the news broke.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 27 June 2022
  • In the meantime, Squires sees the benefit of taking advantage of the maternal vaccine for RSV.
    — Alice Park, Time, 21 Aug. 2023
  • And my role in the film also carries a very maternal storyline.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2022
  • My mother and deceased maternal grandmother did not have the chance to explore the world when their children were young.
    — Essence, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Many trigger law states have high rates of maternal poverty.
    — Elliott Ramos, NBC News, 1 July 2022
  • 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
  • For maternal care, the department needs more funds to stand up a new at-home nursing program for mothers.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Health care, too, was seen in terms of prescription costs, though the Black maternal health crisis was a major issue.
    — Natasha Pearlman, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • This turn toward the maternal is key to other directives that Roz assigns herself out of an emerging desire to help the animals survive.
    — Elvia Wilk, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The spokesperson forwarded a 73-page update on the maternal mortality crisis that had been sent to Congress this past July.
    — Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2024

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