Sentence examples for biological offspring from inspiring English sources

They had no biological offspring, but Jo repeatedly referred to her husband's paintings as their 'children'.

Blood tests proved she was the biological offspring of Abraham and Sannie.

She did not marry until she was 48, to Stephen Hargrove, who works in TV production, and has two stepchildren but no biological offspring.

It is in that vein that I tell you: J. D. Salinger was my father — apologies to his biological offspring and my own multiple parents.

He and his wife, Angela, have two young children that he had presumed to be his biological offspring.

Meanwhile, Vince Vaughn's bullish charisma makes Delivery Man (Entertainment One, 12), in which a deadbeat sperm-bank supplier fights to protect his identity from 142 of his biological offspring, more raucous and affecting than it probably deserves to be.

In addition, transmission of COPD from adoptive parents to their non-biological offspring would be explained by family environment rather than genetic factors.

COHRA participants were recruited by household as previously described [ 6, 7, 26], whereby eligible households were required to include at least one biological parent-offspring pair with the child being 1 to 18 years of age.

We defined exposure in the mother to bereavement stress preconception or during the prenatal period as death of her biological parents, her offspring, or the biological father of the offspring.

The potential for dime-store philosophizing hovers at the perimeter of "Chimera" (the title refers both to the rare but real biological phenomenon of offspring with two sets of chromosomes and to the mythological creature made from various animal parts), but only rarely do Ms. Holum and Ms. Stein succumb to the more navel-gazing aspects of this quandary.

14 Transmission of COPD from biological parents to offspring would therefore be explained by genetic factors or early life factors rather than family environment.