Sentence examples for born about from inspiring English sources

"born about" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that someone's birth date is approximate or estimated, rather than exact. Example: John Smith was born about 1985, but the exact date is unknown.

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Born about V-E Day, my guess.

Amali was born about three months later.

I was born about 40 years ago.

The couple had more children, among them Michael, born about 1889, and Anthony, born about 1891.

(Their daughter, Liliana, was born about nine months ago).

Nina was born about eight months after she arrived.

Detective Bordamonte said the baby was born about 1 a.m.

Lucretius, who was born about a century before Christ, was emphatically not our contemporary.

Siegal, born about three months before Frutig in 1918, grew up in Larksville, Pa.

She gave birth to a baby born about six months ago and stopped attending school.

And nobody talked to him after Miracle was born about continuing life-sustaining treatment.

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