Sample Sentences for
midwife
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  • Goody Osburn were midwife to me three times.  (source)
    midwife = a woman who aids the mother in the delivery of babies
  • "DO YOU HAVE CALENDULA?" THE MIDWIFE SAID.  (source)
    MIDWIFE = non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth
  • Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.  (source)
    Midwifery = the profession of assisting women in childbirth
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  • The midwife was telling Mom to push, then hold, then push.  (source)
    midwife = someone skilled in aiding the delivery of babies
  • When I was about ready to graduate, a list of Appalachian communities asking for nurse-midwives was posted on the student bulletin board.  (source)
  • There's no midwifery there, whichever place she's gone to; so I suppose she's out of employment, anyway.  (source)
    midwifery = the profession of assisting women in childbirth by people who are not medical doctors
  • From the opening concept of looking for a shared American narrative in the biography of a young black male, to fits and starts in the writing, to a breakthrough moment in narrative style that he midwifed a year ago, to helping guide home the finished manuscript, John was my partner, always at my side, a dream editor.†  (source)
  • Midwifing is altogether another gate's business.†  (source)
  • The midwife, arriving late, had found the baby's head pulled out of shape, its neck stretched, its body warped; and she had pushed the head back and molded the body with her hands.  (source)
    midwife = a non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth
  • I tried to get a midwife for her, but the doctor said midwives were dirty.  (source)
    midwives = a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies
  • Nothing but midwifery cases.  (source)
    midwifery = the profession of assisting women in childbirth
  • A week later, I midwifed Lottie Mowbray, a poor and simple woman who yet managed to deliver her baby with the least complaint or difficulty I had yet encountered.†  (source)
  • Midwifing changed my mother.  (source)
    Midwifing = practicing the profession of assisting women in childbirth
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