How to use "mother" in a sentence

This is one of the things my mother taught me

Aron's mother answered on the first ring.

'Oh dear,' said Aron's mother

The bad news reached Aron's mother

As the nurses take off my shoes, I ask Steve to let my mother know that I'm OK and to arrange for someone to collect all the things I left at Horseshoe Canyon.

Of course, I didn't tell my mother that.

He wrote that he was afraid of becoming like his mother and 'the best thing for me was to die.' His mother was in an asylum for lunatics

Their mother - a big, red-haired woman with a plain face - sat on the doorstep of the inn, watching them.

The mother was young and pretty, but she looked poor and unhappy

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

With a little laugh, she jumped off her mother's lap and ran to play with the two girls on the swing.

After hugging and kissing their mother, they sat on the floor by the fire and played with a doll

The two girls, when they saw Cosette with their doll, ran crying to their mother

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

Gillenormand always told him that his father had been no good - that he was a poor soldier and a drunk who had abandoned him after his mother's death

His father, a brave officer who had fought for Napoleon and nearly died at the Battle of Waterloo, had really loved him and his mother very much

'Now, Cosette,' he breathed softly, 'the time has come for me to tell you your mother's name

Your mother loved you greatly and she suffered greatly

Her mother was fond of her; and her grandmother doted on her still more

One day her mother made some cakes and said to her, "Go, my dear, and see how your grandmother is doing, because she has been very ill

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."

"Your grandchild, Little Red Riding Hood," replied the wolf, counterfeiting her voice; "who has brought you a cake and a little pot of butter sent you by mother."

Little Red Riding Hood, hearing the big voice of the wolf, was at first afraid; but believing her grandmother had a cold and was hoarse, answered, "It is your grandchild Little Red Riding Hood, who has brought you a cake and a little pot of butter mother sends you."

And he thinks of all the times he watched his father hit his mother.

Just like his mother's

And dark hair too, just like his mother's.

She looks around the carriage: there are only eight other people there: a young couple holding hands and talking quietly on the seat opposite her; two businessmen a few seats to her right; an old lady two seats to her left; a mother and son at the far end of the carriage

Your mother is in a very unusual position, you know - Cham's dad only gets bits and pieces of work now and then

I talked about my mother and her great love for my father

When my father had died very suddenly, my mother had lived only a few weeks after him.

She managed to be both a fine dancer and a good mother, although that was not always easy; she loved Danny, and she enjoyed her work and she thrived on double duty.

Someday I may also be a mother again

And I'll be a damn good mother too

A good mother and a good producer

I'll play up the mother-suffering-distress angle, and the court ought to be sympathetic."

Her mother was shattered, couldn't bear to view the body, though the daughter hadn't suffered substantial physical damage, the way Danny did

The mother wasn't even able to attend the service

A couple weeks after the little girl was buried, the mother started feeling guilty about not paying her last respects."

Because the mother hadn't seen the body in the funeral home, she just couldn't bring herself to believe her daughter was really dead

Simply issue an exhumation order on the mother's request

But the first night in the country, the mother received a vision in which Kevin was buried alive and calling for her

Most of the story dealt with Death's attempts to stop the mother and father on their desperate night journey; they were assaulted by every form of the walking dead, every manner of living corpse and vampire and ghoul and zombie and ghost, but they triumphed

Then the guilt-stricken mother could have been permitted one last, late, ghastly look at the remains of her son.

I'm a mother lion, and they've stolen my cub

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.

I received a death threat by phone the night before the arbitration - I can't say for certain that it was from the writer; the voice was so deep that it might have been his mother - and the next morning the law firm handling the studio's case assured me that they had taken extra security measures for the meeting

'I didn't know your mother was looking for a fly,' I said.

'Well, I'm not surprised my mother left him

'I'm going up to London for two days, to see my mother, and my lawyers

With my mother.'

'Didn't you guess? Mrs Lestrange is my mother

'But mother sent a note to me, and I arranged to leave the tennis party early and meet her near the vicarage at a quarter past six

But mother - well, I shall be with her till the end...' She got up and I held her hand

I have also decided that since now I'm going to be a real "wife and mother" I must look after the house as well

And now night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming.

She is very dark, but she is my dear little girl.' When the little girl heard these words, she ran to her mother.

I'll go and spend a week with my mother!'

I mean, I'm not her mother

Particularly when you have no mother or father.

She is not your mother,' he said.

'You know, Sissie, you are a new mother

One evening in July 1849, I went to see my mother and sister at their house on Hampstead Heath

On the evening before I left for Cumberland, I went to say goodbye to my mother and sister

When I had finished, she said, 'Mrs Fairlie was my mother

My mother died, then Mr Fairlie died

When my mother came here, she started a school in the village

'After the story you told me this morning, I've been reading my mother's old letters,' said Miss Halcombe

She has come to Limmeridge from Hampshire with her mother for a few weeks

Her mother is a respectable woman but there is something mysterious about her...'"

After lunch, Miss Halcombe told me about Mr Hartright's adventure on Hampstead Heath and her mother's letter describing Anne Catherick

Your mother was very kind to me, so you and your happiness are important to me.

He told us that Mrs Catherick, Anne's mother, had been a servant in his family for many years before leaving to get married

Jane Catherick (Anne's mother)

His actions towards Anne Catherick and her mother have been generous

How she hates him! She said that her mother had told her a secret - Percival's secret - and when he discovered that Anne knew it, he put her in the asylum.-'

The dead lady's husband was out of the country, so my mistress arranged for the lady to be buried in her home town in Cumberland in the same grave as her mother.

First I went to my mother's house

'But we don't know it.' 'Anne's mother, Mrs Catherick, knows it,' I said, 'and I'll find out what it is

'A very aristocratic family! Especially on his mother's side!' She stopped speaking suddenly, as if she had said something she did not mean to say.

So! Sir Percival's secret was something to do with his mother! Mrs Catherick said no more

The truth was that Percival's father had never married Percival's mother

His mother was already married when his father - Sir F - met her

Some parts of her mother's letter were of particular interest

I asked him some questions about the time when Anne Catherick's mother had worked at his house

People thought that a woman's only job was being a wife and mother

Today, Mary Wollstonecraft is called "the mother of British feminism"

Her mother and father believed in education for girls

In 1979 and 1980, her brother Petrocinio and her mother, Juana, were killed by Guatemalan soldiers

Both her mother and her father believed in women's rights.

But Emmeline's mother and father had money

Still, she told her mother that she was going to be number one in the world

That was because she wore the short trousers her mother made her wear

She runs away and tells her mother.

"Lolita, tonight your mother and I must visit our old friends," says Don Carlos