Sentence examples for parent but a from inspiring English sources

"Home" is not a place of safety, but a torture chamber; "father" is not a parent, but a monster.

The sullen teenager lights up, the 8-year-old stops whining, and your spouse is no longer a parent, but a fellow skier.

This can be taken by either parent, but a month of it is non-transferable to make sure that both parents take at least some.

Oldroyd, says Hobbs, was not a surrogate parent but "a real maverick, a real character, a very poetic woman, a very, very free spirit who approached life in an extremely unconventional way.

Indeed, I've noticed that for an increasing number of people, the significant person from the past is not a parent but a sibling, a close childhood friend, or even a nanny.

And the man who first pointed investigators toward the William Floyd School District was not a disgruntled teacher or outraged parent, but a disgraced former Suffolk legislator, Fred Towle, a politically connected Republican who pleaded guilty in May 2003 to taking more than $10,000 in bribes.

You can be a parent, but an old one, as donor-egg moms in their 50s and 60s are demonstrating.

However, it increases to over 50% when B is not necessarily the parent but an ancestor of the defined term.

In a few isolated cases, adolescents did not live with a parent, but with a guardian, who was an aunt, uncle or grandparent, or else was unrelated.

I'm speaking from my experience not only as a parent but as a pediatrician.

I think it brought me suddenly face to face with my mum's identity, not as a parent but as a person.