How to use "child" in a sentence

During the second half of the night, I have visions of myself as a child

I was like a child again, unable to do anything for myself

He has to know that he's a child,

'I'll have to take this child away from here, or they'll kill it!' she thought

She turned to Alice and said, 'What's your name, child?'

She's only a child.'

Valjean slowly raised his head and stared with a sort of amazement at the child

The woman looked round and saw a young woman with a child sleeping peacefully in her arms

The child's eyes were as wide and blue as her mother's

'I have to find work, and that's not easy with a child but no husband

'Does the child have enough clothes?' the man asked.

By the age of five, Cosette had become a thin, pale-faced, silent child

'The child is lucky to have a home at all,' they told everybody.

An unmarried woman with a child was a terrible thing in those days, and Fantine lost her job

I'll pay your debts and arrange for your child to return to you

She's looking forward to seeing her child.'

'I haven't brought the child with me,' M

'It will destroy her if she doesn't see her child now, after you promised to bring her.'

Three days to fetch this unfortunate woman's child

'To fetch my child?' she cried

And you can forget all that nonsense about your child.

'This is a very heavy bucket for such a small child,' he said gently, looking down at her from his great height.

It must have fallen from the child's pocket.'

That child, for instance - you've no idea how much she costs

'What would you say,' the old man said after a moment's thought, 'if I offered to take the child from you?'

'We love that child very much

He felt sad that Fantine had not lived to see her child again, but happy that he had been able to rescue her child from the terrible Thenardiers

He bent and kissed the sleeping child's forehead just as, nine months earlier, he had kissed her mother's.

What he had experienced in that moment was not the honest, innocent gaze of a child

A large woman with greying hair, once red, was sitting by the fire, while a thin, pale-faced child sat on one of the beds.

'Oh, the poor child,' 'Ursula' said, seeing the girl's bleeding wrist.

You've forgotten, that child was ugly, and this one's not bad-looking.'

'How is the wounded child?' M

'You poor child,' Marius said

Cosette had brought her letter case and blotter with her, Valjean his box of child's clothing and the old National Guard uniform which all respectable men possessed, and which he had worn under a previous identity.

'Marius, my child, grandson! You're alive after all!'

The poor child, who did not know that it was dangerous to stay and talk to a wolf, said to him, "I am going to see my grandmother and carry her a cake and a little pot of butter from my mother."

"All the better to run with, my child."

"All the better to hear with, my child."

"All the better to see with, my child."

He remembers when he came here with his father to poach a few rabbits as a child

Gran was always talking about how she'd lived by the ocean when she was a child.

You are not a child, you know.'

I felt like a child going home after a party

Her child's ill

'What a strange child you are,' Mrs Van Hopper said

I was like a child on her first day at school.

'My dear child,' Beatrice answered slowly, 'I thought Maxim had told you

The man was still watching me, staring like a child

Then, like a child, I hid the envelope in the desk

I felt like a child again.

Maxim still thought of me as a child - someone who must not hear unpleasant things

As usual, he was treating me like a child

I did not want to be a child

'I looked after her when she was a child

'Mrs de Winter was a lovely child,' she said

I'm not a child any more.'

"If I had a child, Max," she said, "Everyone would think it was yours

She had been going to have a child

The X-rays showed that she could never have had a child

She still had not adjusted to the loss of her only child, because she'd never wanted - or tried - to adjust to it

Again, she was possessed by the haunting feeling that her child was alive

She had lost her child and her husband in the same year, the man first, and then the boy, the son to the grave and the husband to the winds of change

She would never forget him, that sweet child who had been such a large part of her, but she would no longer have to live her life around the gaping hole that he had left in it

She finished it quickly, as though she were a child taking medicine, and then put the bottle away.

Michael was behaving like a spiteful child

It was a child's voice

Later, after Danny was dead, she'd repressed her feelings because she'd known that Michael had been truly suffering from the loss of his child, and she hadn't wanted to add to his misery

If some stranger wanted her to feel more pain over the loss of her child, however, that was definitely unsettling

Apparently, when a child dies, one of the worst things a parent can do is refuse to look at the body while it's lying in a casket

He was not a particularly large man, but he picked her up in his arms as if she were a child.

Now, for the judge's benefit, and to explain why an exhumation had suddenly become such a vital matter, Elliot exaggerated the anguish and confusion that Tina had undergone as a direct consequence of never having seen the body of her child.

Kevin's parents went away from the city immediately after the funeral, intending to spend a month at their summerhouse in the country, where they could be free from the press of business and social duties, the better to mourn their lost child

He sensed that he was witnessing a joyous display, a warm greeting, the excited welcome of a child-ghost

She looked around, waiting for some sign from her child, and she and Elliot twitched in surprise when the overhead fluorescent tube winked off, then came on again

Minutes ago, when Tina had first peered through the observation window, when she had seen the frighteningly thin child, she had told herself that she would not cry

Elliot said, "But if racing to keep up with the Chinese - or the Russians or the Iraqis - can create situations like the one we've got here, where an innocent child gets ground up in the machine, then aren't we just becoming monsters too? Aren't we letting our fears of the enemy turn us into them? And isn't that just another way of losing the war?"

The child still clung to her, but his deeply sunken eyes were riveted on Dombey.

Now she looked up from the task of bundling the child, and she said to Dombey, "But why was he infected in the first place?"

The Eyes of Darkness is a modest little thriller about a woman, Tina Evans, who lost her child, Danny, when he was in an accident on a trip with his scouting troop

Although The Eyes of Darkness does not have the intensity, the humor, the depth of characterization, the complexity of theme, or the pace of later novels, readers have responded positively to it over the years, most likely because the device of a lost child - and the dedicated mother who will do anything to find out what happened to her little boy - strikes a primal chord in all of us.

'She never seems to consider him as her own child.'

'That child is not half so dreamy as she pretends to be

It's coming into your life, too! And you can't call me a dear child any more when we have a real child of our own

I ran crying silently as a child might do

They had one child, but there was a yellow fever epidemic there, and both her husband and child died of it

My child survived.'

'Your child!' cried Grant Munro.

Unfortunately, our only child took after his people rather than mine

When I met you by chance and learned to love you, I was afraid to tell you about my child

What are you going to do about me and my child?'

He lifted the little child, kissed her, and, with the little girl in his arms, he gave his other hand to his wife.

'Hei Mercy.' And the door opened to show the face of Connie, her big sister, six years older, and now heavy with her second child

And a twenty-three-year-old child who chooses a silly way to fight life's problems

He told everyone in the village that Sir P had been my lover and that Anne was Sir P's child

The vicar says hello to me! But back then, when Anne was a child, my life was very hard

As Malala has said, "One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

As a child, Nancy loved reading, and she was very intelligent.

This is called "child marriage"

Loveness and Ruvimbo decided that they had to do something about child marriage

But the big problem in any country is changing the way people think about child marriage - and that takes time.