Sentence examples for mothered from inspiring English sources

Willingly or not, humanity had embarked 50,000 years ago on the road called "progress" with constant change in habits driven by invention mothered by necessity.

But in some counties necessity mothered invention.

Nancy Pelosi has mothered a passel of children.

Vanessa mothered the others, especially Virginia, but the dynamic between need (Virginia's) and aloofness (Vanessa's) sometimes expressed itself as rivalry between Virginia's art of writing and Vanessa's of painting.

Lord Emsworth's favourite female not only mothered a litter of outlandish plots but has recently lent her imperial title to a Hampshire pub.

Bouncy and hyperactive, he was mothered by his big sister Jade.

If the macaques were all cruelty, though, there would not be examples like Mozu — born without hands and feet, this snow monkey was protected by her troop and mothered offspring.

Precisely to the same degree that she'd been mothered in disappointment, in embittered moderation, in the stifling of unreasonable expectations, in second-generation cynicism toward collapsed gleaming visions of the future, the morose detachment of the suburbs, Miriam was in fact a Bolshevik of the five senses.

(Full-time! As if one is mysteriously de-mothered the moment one's child drifts beyond one's field of vision).

Ms. Lopez, a Tony Award winner for "A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine," portrays six mothers without intermission, and by mom No. 4 you begin to feel all mothered-out.

Ms. Lopez, a Tony Award winner for "A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine," portrays six different mothers without intermission, and by mom No. 4 you begin to feel all mothered-out.