Sentence examples for have borne only from inspiring English sources

That is suggested by the fact that women who have borne only sons have shorter lives than those who have borne only daughters.

His departure will mark the end of a political partnership that seemed to have borne only limited dividends for the governor and the university.

Geneviève is disdained by her cold, ambitious husband because she has borne only female children.

While Mr McInerney does drop the odd ironic detail an argument over whether Israeli or American military gas masks are more reliable in the main he relates his story with po-faced earnestness.A would-be screenwriter married to an editor who runs with Salman Rushdie's set, Corrine was left infertile by a bout of anorexia and has borne twins only with the help of her sister's implanted eggs.

She has borne 12 children, but only five survived infancy.

His wife died after twenty years of marriage having borne him nine children, only four of whom survived.

If only I had borne a "normal" child, I wouldn't be projecting my self-blame on my husband's weary features.

By then, of course, Thornton's persistent artiness had borne fruit, and the bounty would only increase over the years.

Having borne him four children (of whom only the eldest, Elizabeth, long survived Richard), she died, during pregnancy, in 1718.

Catherine of Aragon, the queen of Henry VIII, had borne him numerous children of whom only one survived, the princess Mary, and more were not to be expected.

Only one woman who had borne a child had failed to breast-feed.