Sentence examples for late child from inspiring English sources

"late child" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone who arrived late in comparison to someone else, either in terms of birth order within a family, or in terms of age of a person relative to another. For example, "The late child in the family was expected to work harder."

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The hitch: that late child was black.

He was an only child & a late child.

He was born Michael O'Donovan in 1903, a demographic rarity at that time: both a late child and an only child.

Peter's wife, Rebecca, has a 23-year-old brother, Ethan, known as Mizzy (short for the Mistake), the late child of aging parents who hadn't thought it still possible to conceive.

He was a voracious reader and recounted with feeling the experience of being a late child of the Raj, dedicating his last book to the "memory of those who bore the burden of empire".

A lonely and indulged late child, Plum has two much older brothers - Justin, who works in an off licence, and Cydar, a student who breeds tropical fish in a bungalow at the bottom of the garden.

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The woman with chronically bad taste in men won't know why she finds herself scowling at the handsome rogue with late child-support payments and an addiction to Muscle Milk.

Problem of interrelation between late children and their parents consider as strained or unimportant.

Beloved wife of the late Sam, loving mother to her late children Alan and Gary and caring stepmother and step-grandmother.

The late children's author was a resident of La Jolla, and his wife still lives in the area; locals refer to her fondly as "a real character".

Never a Dahl moment It sounds unlikely, but the late children's author Roald Dahl once received a death threat, according to his daughter, Lucy.

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