| 单词 | pregnant |
| 例句 | Like Maya would have ever been stupid enough to get pregnant, anyway. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He described to her the green wheat fields of Herat, the orchards, the vines pregnant with plump grapes, the city’s crowded, vaulted bazaars. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He had not known that she was pregnant and assumed that the child had been fathered by another man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When I had become pregnant at fourteen, it was because of my own irresponsibility. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Even though she’s very pregnant, she comes with him when he wants to sketch the people who live near the dunes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Mom was on track to be the next Venus or Billie Jean or Steffi, except something derailed her career for good: She got pregnant with yours truly. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He showed the children how to let themselves be stung by spiders and drink the urine of pregnant women as a form of immunization. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The pregnant black women who were thrown overboard if they got too sick! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z While the Doctorita was pregnant, she glowed, all pink and round and happy because she had an excuse to eat a lot. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Margarita looks too pregnant for only two months since the wedding. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z When Mary told her mother that she was pregnant, at age sixteen, Alma said, “I don’t care! You are going to finish school and go to college.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “When you are pregnant,” Ma said to Caroline, “give your body whatever it wants. You don’t want your child to have port-wine marks from your cravings.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z He watched Amala carefully; she did not look pregnant, still slender and flat-bellied, and he hoped that the medicine had not worked after all. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z First the pregnant young woman recoiled and then she spat with a vicious intensity that wrinkled her forehead. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I know that Patria is pregnant and not feeling all that well. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And on top of that, she’s pregnant again, which pleases her because it gives her an excuse to get fat and grow another chin. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mami wore a printed dress she called a muumuu, which stretched across her pregnant belly like a round plot of exotic flowers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z And if there was a mistake, and a woman got pregnant anyway, she was supposed to get rid of it. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Because they were pregnant and jammed with bricks of virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For one crazy minute I thought, Mr. Willard was going to announce that Mrs. Willard was pregnant and expecting a baby girl. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z No doctor has been able to explain to me why I can’t get pregnant. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, all of a sudden, pretty much out of nowhere, he tells me that my stepmother is pregnant She's due in June. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z We put them into our baskets and go out again, past the pregnant woman and her partner, who beside her looks spindly, shrunken; as we all do. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z A pregnant young woman sat up and held her chest and began to cough, unending chesty coughing that was painful to hear. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Only he didn’t want her to be pregnant again. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “I wondered if she might have been pregnant, and then ended it.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It wasn’t as bad as the tone had been when she’d told her parents that she was pregnant, but she was pretty sure that it would never sound that bad again. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “We were trying ... I was trying to get pregnant. I couldn’t, and I became depressed. That’s when it started.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Several months later, she announced that she was pregnant. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I have told you people that I am not sick. I am only pregnant.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As they passed the primary school with its trimmed hedges of whistling pine, Ifemelu suddenly imagined that she was indeed pregnant, and the girl had used expired test chemicals in that dingy lab. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Four months after she began spending afternoons in the superintendent’s room, Shin heard from another former school friend that she was pregnant. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It could be because Ivy’s ankle hurt, but her chest felt tight, just like it did when she first found out that Mom was pregnant with the twins. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z After about a year of marriage, I became pregnant with our first child. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Which gave him an excuse to walk right past me and talk to Dolores, who was fifteen and pretty and still didn't look pregnant. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Eddie’s father would have named him Franklin if he hadn’t promised his cousin when the boy’s mother was first pregnant that he would name the child after him. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z One common method throughout history was to simply slaughter the calves and kids shortly after birth, milk the mother for all she was worth, and then get her pregnant again. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They treated me like I got pregnant in high school, too. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “I was pregnant with Fern at the time. I thank God I didn’t lose her. Leafie came to stay till I was up and around again.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The pregnant girls just sighed at the news and went on sweeping and sprinkling the dirt yards, and the young men sharpened their blades till the edges whistled. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I keep telling her that I will never get pregnant like my cousin Vanessa, but it doesn’t matter to her. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In this state of mind, I bet you don’t even give up your seat to a pregnant lady. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I realized Lelia hadn’t told him that she was already—unexpectedly—pregnant. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Grace could see it in their eyes, their uncertainty about what to say about her rapidly expanding stomach, their relief that it was she and not they who had gotten pregnant. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I thought about my mother, pregnant at seventeen—gone for nearly a year at that point. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z But I hadn’t thought she was that pregnant. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Would Weylin have done such a thing to one of his pregnant slave women, I wondered. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Swing On and her fellow mares came back to Claiborne pregnant. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The only reason they got married was ’cause my pop got Moms pregnant. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The pregnant woman’s belly is like a huge fruit. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I know Mom got pregnant before his deployment. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Well, before you got pregnant and started to waddle. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Next to Lazzaro was the poor old high school teacher, Edgar Derby, mournfully pregnant with patriotism and middle age and imaginary wisdom. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She called him Isaac because in the Bible Sarah gets pregnant when she’s like a hundred years old and she’s not supposed to be having children and that’s what she names her son. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Once in a while, a pregnant cloud hovers and teases the land with a trickle of rain. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z When Mom got pregnant, Lola and Lolo made her leave art school and get a job. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Although I cannot fully understand her words, I overhear Ma say women are so overworked, underfed, and filled with fear that most cannot become pregnant anymore. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A pregnant woman smiled at her and moved slightly, making room; Claire recognized her as Jean, the wife of one of the fiddlers who were tuning their instruments and preparing to play for the dancing. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The August that Gogol turns five, Ashima discovers she is pregnant again. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He’d wished to inspect one of the pregnant hounds, though he knew it was impossible to predict the outcome of the litter until she gave birth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Their mothers were neighbors and were pregnant at the same time, so the two of them met while they were still in their mothers’ bellies. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z When my mother was pregnant, right up until the time of labor, she would go out and do chores. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z “You become pregnant,” Rick continued, “by a man who has promised to marry you. The man goes off with another woman, your best friend; you get an abortion and—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Growing up, I always assumed I would either drop out of school or get pregnant. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He did look well, spare and upright, unlike many of his peers who looked like pregnant men. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Three of us from my high school got into this program for pregnant teens. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t hit me too hard, ’cause I were pregnant I guess, but the fights, once they got started up again, kept up. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z A pregnant woman imagined her baby born blue, and hoped it were the blue of death sooner than the blue of gods. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She had just discovered that she was pregnant when she met Joe. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The mystery of why we weren’t getting pregnant would remain just that. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z All the slaves also whispered about the fact that she was pregnant. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “But not until a year after they were married. Tom Riddle left her while she was still pregnant.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She herself did nothing to help but rather talked on the phone, occasionally pausing to yell, "That's very collectible," or "Be careful with the fish, I'm pretty sure the female is pregnant." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Six months after that she became pregnant with their son. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Three weeks later, having thought very little of the strange and strangely empty night, I found myself pregnant. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He had helped himself and along the way had also helped Vera’s family by giving her pregnant niece and her husband a nice apartment. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z These were the hours in which she sang a little; breathed however she wanted; and simply kept quiet — more important now than ever, as she had a hunch she might be pregnant. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z "I like my tale better," said Littlefinger, "and so will the smallfolk- Most of them believe that if a woman eats rabbit while pregnant, her child will be bom with long floppy ears." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I’m pregnant, Dad. Yes, it’s true. I’m pregnant.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My sister Patria has those two babies and is pregnant with a third one. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "You're not going to get pregnant"—all his lessons ended with the same point. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We were also in the janitor's room rinsing paintbrushes the next Friday when Melissa told me how a woman got pregnant. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Or they’d start freaking out that I’m going to get pregnant or something. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It had been her job to keep Mom relaxed while she was pregnant, and worry-free after the twins were born. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But on this night, my mother cut the party short because it was a school night, plus she was pregnant with Maddy at the time and needed my father to massage her feet. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Someone’s going to come out of here pregnant. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z One, a pregnant woman whom Claudette recognized as her neighbor Mrs. Hamilton, sat down heavily in the empty seat next to Claudette. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Each time he thought of that moment, the last moment he saw Shoba pregnant, it was the cab he remembered most, a station wagon, painted red with blue lettering. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She stopped smoking while she was pregnant with Mitt and then until he started nursery school. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In 2014, a story circulated for two days about a pregnant pet tarantula named Penelope. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z It would have been so much easier to know that she was pregnant in the first place. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Others claimed Los Alamos was home for pregnant military personnel—or possibly a nudist colony. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That was the first time Henry made her mother pregnant. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z My mom was the youngest of the lot, but when my grandmother was pregnant with her, she debated whether she should terminate the pregnancy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The majority opinion, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, spoke specifically to the would-be mother’s predicament: The detriment that the State would impose upon the pregnant woman by denying this choice altogether is apparent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I have the idea to stuff it under my shirt and stagger around the stage with my hand on my lower back like I’m pregnant. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z When she lost all interest in the schoolhouse, the sewing workshop, and the women’s meetings and once again found everything ever so lovely, they knew that she was pregnant again. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her case attracted national attention, but civil rights advocates declined to use her as a plaintiff because she got pregnant by an older man shortly after her arrest. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When they met again late in hurricane season, Felicia was seven months pregnant and working as a cashier in a butcher shop. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She was especially proud of the pregnant ones. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman that pregnant doesn’t have to go out, doesn’t have to go shopping. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just gave a sandwich to a homeless guy! You’re the one who works for criminals and hangs around with pregnant jailbirds.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z She was fifteen, pregnant with her boyfriend’s baby, pregnant with a vision of freedom. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She looked pregnant, but she was actually smuggling a large banner under her coat. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “You don’t have to worry about anything. I’ll wear a rubber, you don’t have to worry about pregnant.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z On their tenth wedding anniversary, Mr. McCullough took her to Giovanni’s, her favorite restaurant, and as they entered, a vastly pregnant woman waddled up behind them. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He shares a small apartment with his pregnant girlfriend, his sister, and her two children. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She was crying, but she got out something like ‘God help me, I didn’t know what you were like! But as God is my witness, I was not pregnant!’ Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Fariba was smiling, and her palms were pressed against the swell of her pregnant belly. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “I think I’m too big. I have never seen another pregnant woman like this,” she said. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z She said she was pregnant, and if the baby was a boy she was going to name it Harry after him. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Richardson, doing some quick mental math, calculated that Mia—if this was even the same Mia—would not yet have been pregnant with Pearl that spring. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z So why would Mia have taken a leave from school, if not because she was pregnant? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She run all pregnant out the door and tumble in her car and speed off. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Got pregnant, was turned out by her mistress and went and drowned herself. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z It is natural but wrong to visualize the singularity as a kind of pregnant dot hanging in a dark, boundless void. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Indeed, as Neumann noted, Indians actually sought out pregnant or nursing does, which hunters today are instructed to let go. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Some girls were forced to leave, for they had become pregnant during the rebellion. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been careful not to have unprotected sex; I had learned my lesson last time I had become pregnant. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Mom got pregnant twice and had two miscarriages. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If you are pregnant, you could lose the child on the road, Karla says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I helped a screaming pregnant woman off the floor. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She went to all of them, even as a freshman—even junior prom, when she was four and a half months pregnant. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z All hell broke loose from her dad until he learned she was pregnant. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m pretty sure I was pregnant at Christmastime, but now I’m sure I’m not, so there must have been a loss in there, but it’s easier not to mention it to Anatole. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z During these five years she is almost constantly pregnant, and is fertilised within 60 to 120 days after giving birth in order to preserve maximum milk production. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the Nation’s most closely kept scandals was that a succession of the personal secretaries of Mr. Muhammad had become pregnant. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In an extreme scenario the first settlers are pictured as having consisted of a single pregnant young woman carrying a male fetus. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “If I got pregnant, I’d have a pretty hard time keeping it a secret from anyone, much less my older sister.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z A pregnant child upon the docks doth cost less than a fine dress she might wear two years later; and luxury is earned by being wrested. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z But what I did know is they all turned their backs on me, especially after I got pregnant. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z His family lived in Burnt Mill Creek, and when I enrolled in grade five, my family, which consisted at that time of my father and pregnant stepmother had just moved to San Francisquito Canyon. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Plus, the crime happened after your mom found out she was pregnant with you.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z A pregnant girl in love, a kindly shoemaker, an orphan boy, a blind girl, and a giantess who complained that everyone was in her way when she herself took up the most room. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In her time in the Oakland schools she’d seen plenty of kids drop out or get kicked out, get shot, or get pregnant. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z For a long time Jutta believed she could not get pregnant, and then, one day, when she was thirty-seven years old, she did. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The rose-petal scramble got a lot of attention, but the pregnant lady’s moans did not. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Kat’s older sister, Becka, who didn’t live with them anymore, got pregnant and had an abortion. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She could have gotten a release, too, since she’s pregnant—yes! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew I didn't want to be pregnant. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe you painted it when you were pregnant with us, your belly big, all the windows open, the breeze blowing through the house. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z An intellectually disabled black woman living in Choctaw County, Alabama, Ms. Banks was accused of killing her newborn child even though police had no credible basis for believing she had ever been pregnant. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She seven months pregnant and love eating chocolate. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A little while after she started working she became pregnant: she was unmarried and eighteen. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The children had stopped playing and now looked silently at the car, their arms behind their backs and their new over-sized overalls pulled tight over their little pot bellies as though they too were pregnant. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z "Practically pregnant," his dad said, "but that's a different thing. . . . We were just in love." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “Might she have been pregnant before she was taken upon the ship, as she always averred? Did she speak to you ever of my parentage? Whose child I am?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We were trying to get pregnant and it wasn’t going well. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Lindsey packed the camera in her duffel while I contemplated the film inside it, how it was pregnant with our secret, its birth inevitable. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z For some reason, it was even harder now that she wasn’t pregnant. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The pregnant girl, Celianne, I don’t know how she takes it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Abel and I, we made up. I moved back into the bedroom. It was just one night, and then...I became pregnant. I don’t know how.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Even when she’d discovered she was pregnant, she had told them within twenty-four hours. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “Well, I haven’t been talking to the Goat Man about getting Prim’s goat pregnant, because someone gave me completely inaccurate information as to where he lives,” I say to Prim emphatically. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z During one, my mother got pregnant with their second son, who died a few days after he was born. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He bribed ship captains and constables, rowed shivering pregnant women across rivers in leaky skiffs, and delivered judges’ release orders to frowning deputies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “She promised the pregnant girl she would come for her. She’s probably on her way here.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Montana was six months pregnant now, big and rosy, lazily demanding small favors from Billy from time to time. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Some who take his classes are honors students; others won’t make it to college, either because they are not academic enough, they don’t have the money, or they will get pregnant and have babies. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z At first he thought he was looking at some kind of pregnant sea snake or a constipated eel. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z I wish you hadn’t decided to drop out of West Side Story after you got pregnant. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z ‘You became pregnant by a man who has promised to marry you. The man goes off with another woman, your best friend; you get an abortion.’ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I don’t want to be pregnant either, I say. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you don’t know that’s what would’ve—” “I was a pregnant, Untalented young woman,” her mother said, and she sounded much more serious now. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Because I’m pretty sure I’m about to watch Nick get Taylor pregnant, right here on the dance floor. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The afternoon was green; this do I recall; the haze in the atmosphere pregnant with the tinct of leaf and grass, so the water, the sky, all appeared submerged. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Mist hung about the ground, finches were singing in the oak tree beside the house, and there was my mother, her pregnant belly sticking out in front of her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z It would be crowded, but there was no way a pregnant woman should be sleeping in a car when there was enough room at her family’s house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z For it was one thing to be pregnant, to suffer the queasy mornings in bed, the sleepless nights, the dull throbbing in her back, the countless visits to the bathroom. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They wrestled with a pregnant ewe that bleated and tried to jerk her manure-stained hind legs from their hands. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A few years later, when Min Soo learned that she was pregnant, her first thought was of what to name her child. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Ran off to Mexico to avoid his pregnant girlfriend and ended up in Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z She could not have been pregnant, you see, because her husband had been gone for years. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Estranged from her family, pregnant by a man she could not be seen with in public, she was alone. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “You shouldn’t have gotten pregnant until you knew your existing kids were okay,” he says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It was when she was sixteen and pregnant with me. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z One of the groups in our class discovered that the cat they’d been dissecting had died pregnant; they’d found a litter of unborn kittens in her uterus. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z There I was, five months pregnant, trying to look like Jean Harlow, and a front tooth gone. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “At least tell me the sex was good. If you have to get pregnant and have a baby, the sex should be mind-blowing.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “Ah, pregnant women are often moody for no cause but that they are pregnant! I know, for I have been one,” she says, patting my hand. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “They dug a hole when they wanted to beat a pregnant woman,” Mama said. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z One of Dad’s music buddies who’d moved to Seattle had gotten his girlfriend pregnant, so they were doing the shotgun thing. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I was sure that the fear of becoming pregnant did not bother her. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Eleanor, pregnant, could find neither work nor money enough to pay for having a baby. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee, a church pianist, mother of two, and bank bookkeeper, had gotten pregnant after an extramarital affair. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When Deborah was a junior in high school, at the age of sixteen, she got pregnant with her first child. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “An old boyfriend. Maybe he split when your mom got pregnant. Or maybe he got killed in an accident before you were born.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Only fourteen and pregnant at the time, Ann nearly killed herself with grief. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Deborah had never heard of a rubber, and she didn’t know what pregnant was, she just knew she wanted him to leave her alone. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He was happy when she told him she was pregnant. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “I was pregnant with Zane at the time. Pretty far in. I can’t believe I spent all that time digging in the sun with a belly like that, but I was determined.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Despite her marital troubles, she had that air of secret elation, that affection for her own body that pregnant women often have. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “They named her Amelia. Milly for short. But I used to call her Peach when I was pregnant with her.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The man from the state board of health had himself wedged into the second row, briefcase on his lap, with the still pregnant Mrs. Cybulskis on his left and Hattie Mae on his right. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Well, I had that baby—a boy—and after that got pregnant again with another one. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z And when, six weeks after he leaves, I write to tell him that I’m pregnant, Dutchy says that he is over the moon. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z When I became pregnant, during the last four months, I wore my armor altered so that I looked like a powerful, big man. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I found out I was pregnant, I wanted to abort. I wanted to finish college and start a career, and I thought a baby would derail my hard work.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z As much as he might have wanted to evict Claudette, he hesitated to bully a pregnant woman. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I’m not pregnant and I don't have a boyfriend! Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z How she’d gotten pregnant in college and had been super afraid it was going to ruin her life. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “This is fine. It’s not like sitting on your bed is going to get me pregnant.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The last time they had had a family meeting, Grace had told them she was pregnant. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z His mind wanders to his mother, then to his family and Maria Isabel, who might be pregnant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Her mom didn’t really know the extent of the things kids at school had said to her when she was pregnant. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z In two years he had learned everything about shepherding: he knew how to shear sheep, how to care for pregnant ewes, and how to protect the sheep from wolves. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We had a meeting where the psychologist asked if there had been any complications while I was pregnant with Maribel. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z His eyes gleamed hard again, pregnant with another idea. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They thought they couldn’t have children, but about eleven years ago she got pregnant. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z You could put in the day you got pregnant and it would figure out when you’re going to have the baby. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z If he thought his wife was pregnant with another man’s child . . . only he can’t have done. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, yes, the pregnant Latvian got herself a pass. She’s in the movie theater. She insisted on waiting for you. Where is Sorry Eva?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z They only worried about the Naxalites, who had been known to force men from Good Families to marry servant girls whom they had made pregnant. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw various women of indecipherable age, their skin dry and cracked, some apparently pregnant, all of them barefoot and dressed in faded rags. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Andrew McBride, my biological father, had died while she was pregnant with me fourteen years earlier. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman walked with a waddling gait and as she approached he could see that she was pregnant. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Because maybe she was the only pregnant girl at her prom, but at least she got to kiss whomever she wanted to kiss. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The teachers always had an eye out for pregnant girls—it was very common. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z After three years of trying, she had been pregnant five times, and there was still no baby. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z That had pretty much stopped after Grace had announced she was pregnant. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “We just breathe on you and you get pregnant.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Enrique feels shame for what he has done to his family and what he is doing to Maria Isabel, who might be pregnant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “At the very least, it would suggest that she was careless enough to get pregnant again.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Or perhaps they mean that he should marry her if she gets pregnant. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z My mother was six months’ pregnant when she decided that she would have to be the one to immigrate to the United States with my brothers because my dad was constantly being watched. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I’m sure my face looks like he just told me he got her pregnant. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z We were thinking the same thing: My mother was already pregnant. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I remember when my pregnant mother awoke from a nap and found my aunt and Dusty sitting close together watching television. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Yes, echoing inside Father Mike’s head is all the shouting Aunt Zo has done over the years, ever since she was pregnant nonstop in Greece without a washer or dryer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The nun cradled the smallest, a shriveled doll with stick legs and a pregnant belly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But still: 1.6 million American women a year who got pregnant were suddenly not having those babies. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Patty’s boy, Honor, was kneeling beside the cot on which a pregnant girl lay, and a golden-haired man towered above them both. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In a few months, to their innocent amazement and consternation, Katie found out that she was pregnant. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If you didn’t care about BrettBradBrandon making fun of you for making valentines, why were you so worried about people knowing you were pregnant? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Well, so long as you don’t forget you are pregnant,” he said shortly and turned away. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z But when to her surprise, Mom discovered she was pregnant, and then to her greater surprise, stayed pregnant past the first trimester, we had to cancel the trip. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They yelled about how you shouldn’t tell anyone you were pregnant. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “I know how it is,” he said; “when I was pregnant I couldn’t keep warm—my feet were like ice, I sat over the fire all that winter. Long ago of course, but I remember!” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Not only that, but she got herself widowed, divorced, married, and pregnant—all in ten days’ time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Local people used the story of her to caution children and pregnant girls and it saddened him to learn that instead of resting she was hungry still. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It took Grace a while to figure out that she was pregnant. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z ‘When I was pregnant the first time. Or maybe the second time. Eighteen, nineteen years ago. Long time, anyhow. Like I said, I never had any use for them.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Just because I was pregnant didn’t change my mission. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I sat on the edge of a gorge in the Badlands, looking back at Gram and Gramps and the pregnant woman on the blanket. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z It didn’t matter if they were elderly, pregnant, ill, or balancing children on their laps. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Infants, young children, pregnant women, the elderly, the disabled, the weak, and the sick were sent to the left in a line that ended at the gas chambers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe you’re pregnant outside your womb—you know that can happen.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She used to watch those reality shows on cable TV and yell at the screen, “How did you not know you’re pregnant?!” as actors re-created the most unbelievable scenarios. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The moisture that sprayed into the air would condense and form clouds pregnant with rain. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Our moms are best friends, and the three of them were pregnant with us at the same time. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Alicia, are you pregnant?” she asked, still standing with a cake knife poised in the air. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z After Mom announced she was pregnant with Teddy, the first sign that changes were afoot was when Dad went and got himself a learner’s permit. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Two months later she was pregnant; a month later, she was not. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Maybe it was this stray bit of information that- was responsible for Zizmo’s increasing moodiness, his suspicious glances at his pregnant wife. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I liked the Jalazone school even more after Mother became pregnant. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Lonely, sad, and pregnant, Myrta joined them at the house and there bore a daughter, Lucy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They weren’t pregnant, but they needed vitamins and minerals, too. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z That “women been gittin’ pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the strict discipline and regulations that separated boys’ and girls’ camps, some girls became pregnant. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Adam said, “Were they ignorant? Why couldn’t she have gone to the boss and told him she was a woman and pregnant? Surely they would have taken care of her.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Her arms and legs are like sticks, but her stomach is fat and bulges out like she is pregnant. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When Mama was still pregnant with me, our daddy was sitting in Central Park reading the paper. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z A pregnant woman rests her heavy sack against a barrel. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z One of them is vastly pregnant; her belly, under her loose garment, swells triumphantly. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the one who figured out she was pregnant—she hadn’t known enough to make sense of the changes happening to her body. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Deborah yelled right back, saying she couldn’t go to school all big and pregnant. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I know that you gotta do the nasty to get pregnant. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z His father was a Dominican migrant worker who met his mother picking blueberries in Cherryfield, got her pregnant, moved back to the D.R. to shack up with a local girl, and never looked back. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z A small, heavily pregnant woman came out of one of the huts. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Leroy flops around and tosses and turns, never mind his pregnant wife’s trying to sleep. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She was around fourteen years old when she got pregnant with Nation. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “While she was pregnant, Amina, the Prophet’s mother, had a dream with an angel calling her newborn Ahmad, which is a variation of Muhammad.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “Yes. Before her brother’s son got me pregnant.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The canopies of cherry trees drift overhead, pregnant with blossoms. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The film in his camera still contained pictures of Shoba, in the yard, when she was pregnant. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The episode where someone’s sister gets pregnant and throws up all the time and grows out of her clothes and eats all the grapes and chocolate chip cookies in the house. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Walking to within fifteen yards of a pregnant cow, Joe bolted a bullet into the chamber. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Calpurnia said, “As sure as the sweet Jesus was born, baby. Get this in your head right now, you ain’t pregnant and you never were. That ain’t the way it is.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In extreme cases, they find love and esteem elsewhere, by getting pregnant, marrying early, or joining gangs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z When you live with a pregnant woman, Vincent tells him, an hour seems a day; a day, a week. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And women aren't allowed to go anywhere once they get pregnant. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z And on the last day, a small carving of a pregnant woman made of pink ivory. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Only two months earlier, Lourdes had been pregnant with her second child back in Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Once we were on the road, Dad and Mom got in a big fight over how many months she’d been pregnant. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But by the next summer, when Emma was seven months pregnant, her fears were realized. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She was barely seventeen when she got pregnant with me, my dad nineteen. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z And then, for the first time since being pregnant with Zoe and the last time before climbing in forever twenty-five years later, my grandmother took to her bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I was wondering. How do you ... if you don’t want . . .” And she blurted it out: “How do you keep from getting pregnant?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When any of his girls became pregnant they had the choice of leaving or of being aborted so brutally that a fair proportion died. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I’m sure you do. Since you got her pregnant and made her think you were going to marry her....And...and then she died.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “You didn’t hear me, Dad. I’m pregnant. I’m going to have a baby.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Ebola has particularly nasty effects on pregnant women. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not like my parents fell in love—in Zimbabwe, if a woman becomes pregnant, our Shona tradition requires that she get married or else she brings shame on both families. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z When Holly admits to nausea, Marge wants to know if she’s pregnant. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Getting pregnant with a seventh was not what she had expected or preferred, but she would love this child as she had loved each one before. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z For 7 years my mom tried to get pregnant. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The word stands alone, like dead, unanimous, and pregnant. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That she was wed to his father's shipwright and pregnant to boot only made her more intriguing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “But he cannot travel now. Not only are we on the verge of war, the Queen is pregnant.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z They try to ignore a Mother’s Day party downstairs, where 150 women from Nuevo Laredo laugh, shout, and whisde as their sons dance, pillows stuffed under their shirts to make them look pregnant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It turns out that even two committed go-getters with a deep love and a robust work ethic can’t will themselves into being pregnant. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It occurs to me that she could be pregnant, or that she might have been. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I sat one day with a man who’d gone off young and healthy to an overseas deployment, leaving behind a pregnant wife, and had come back quadriplegic, unable to move his arms or legs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Once she threw out a pregnant lady just because she owned a duck . . . and it was a nice duck too. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m mad that He let you get pregnant and I’m mad that He didn’t listen to me when I prayed for you to change your mind and stay home to have the baby. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Of massacres in distant countries, pregnant women dismembered in the squares. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Carrie’s husband left her when she was pregnant with Johnny’s brother, Will. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Mom got pregnant with me when she was young. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The sick, the elderly, children, babies and pregnant women—all are marched to their death. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “You said it happened just once. Just once and she got pregnant? Just once?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z When Momma got pregnant with me, she was in her senior year of high school and Nana put her out the house. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The leaders sure weren’t going to invite a pregnant teenager up onstage during a mass meeting. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I read somewhere that the woman who posed for it was three months pregnant at the time and that it was shaving cream, not whipped cream, she was suggestively dipping into her mouth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus it was that she was not surprised to discover she was pregnant. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I knew my mother had been pregnant, her belly protruding more by the day, but I was so young, I couldn’t put it all together. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I grabbed a vest with my free arm and put it around the pregnant woman. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z My dad played college baseball for two years, but he had to stop when Mom got pregnant with my brother. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Her mother was pregnant—a fact that had embarrassed Corinthians when first she learned of it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z When you’re a teenager and you first get pregnant, you can’t understand the reality of raising a child, especially if you don’t have the father to help out or even talk to you. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I biew the answer: I was shunned because I had gotten pregnant. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I was pregnant and couldn’t tell a soul. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Another one”—Jen giggled—“it had a picture of a huge pregnant belly, with the label, ‘Ladies, do you want to look like this?’ Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “You were not thinking about us when you got her pregnant,” Olanna said, before she could help herself; she hated the malice in her tone, the renewed resentment she felt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z An old friend had got a girl with a lisp pregnant, had married her and was jolly happy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In three months you'll be crawling back to us on your knees, pregnant, begging for us to take you in. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d blocked her intestines and made her belly swell like she was six months pregnant. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Banks had allegedly told a deputy sheriff that she was pregnant to avoid time in jail for an unrelated matter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When my mother was three months pregnant with my younger sister, Caroline, she was arrested in a sweatshop raid and spent three days in an immigration jail. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z When it began to grow dark, they set up camp just off the trail; downhill, the river Nir was pregnant with rain. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In her best, rose-colored dress — this combined a mandarin collar with a circle skirt — she also looked perceptibly pregnant. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Soup with a bonobo finger in it is supposed to make a pregnant woman give birth to a strong baby. Putting another finger in the bathwater keeps the baby strong.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z "Gwen was a good friend of your mother's. They were both pregnant at the same time. Then later on you and little Kevin went to the same day care, did you know that?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Tonight on the subway, I will get up and give my seat to a pregnant woman or a lady about Ma’s age. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Standing where they could see her pregnant condition, she told them that she was alone with her three small children, and that my father was away, preaching, in Milwaukee. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z If a woman at the table happens to be pregnant, as Astrid is now, the subject is inevitable. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Mama just came to tell me that Amala is pregnant with my child.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, I used to think my father was a coward because he left my mom when she was pregnant. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Maribel was a little girl when Mom got pregnant, so she met Dad. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z In good times females reach puberty earlier, and their chances of getting pregnant are a bit higher. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not like the old days when she was pregnant. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She was pregnant again and later that year, gave birth to Makaziwe, named after the daughter we had lost six years before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The husband has never seen the daughter; his wife was pregnant when he left. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Him telling you not to complain about your morning sickness because getting pregnant was “your choice.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She gets pregnant sometimes and then the vicious cycle is given impetus. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary is told by the angel that she is about to become pregnant. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And I tell her about Mr. Grote on the sofa, his hands on me, and pregnant Mrs. Grote in the hallway, yelling at me to get out. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Five years after that, Leanne at last became pregnant with what would be the couple’s only child—though they didn’t know that yet. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Privately, they said to each other, “Do you think she’s pregnant?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z If there’s a pregnant lady on an airplane, she’s named her unborn kid after me by the time the plane lands. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z It made me queasy, pretending to be civil with a person so beneath human decency that he could crawl under a pregnant ant. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Katie told her that the charm had failed since she was pregnant and the witch was not to blame. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But then an extremely pregnant Julie trails behind her, carrying an IV drip. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z That was the name of a doll Grans had given me when Mom was pregnant so I could “practice” being a big sister. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z As soon as his mom was pregnant, his parents had planned to name Boots Margaret after hiS dad’s grandma. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I guess either scenario is better than ending up pregnant or infected with a deadly STD. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It marked a Pg on the belly of a pregnant woman. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Um, no. There was one family, but they got pregnant right before the adoption went through, and they only wanted one kid, so...yeah. Ended up back in the system for a while.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Like the day she told me she was pregnant. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Her body under the red dress looks very thin, skinny almost, and she’s lost that pregnant glow. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z His wife Abeer was six months pregnant with their first child. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z There was a public service announcement on advising women to see their doctors and take care of themselves while they were pregnant. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z A few months later Mary was pregnant with her second child. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z There’s a pregnant pause as he waits for the rest. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It read: Dear Parents, I am sorry to bring this disgrace on the family, but I am pregnant. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know what I was expecting—information on why being pregnant might make you sad? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Your momma came to me. Young and pregnant. She’d heard that I delivered babies, with no questions, no pay.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z “I met her. She was just a little schoolgirl, but very, very beautiful. Proud should have been ashamed of himself. Did you know she was pregnant before they got married?” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that Arize was pregnant, he did more overtime at the railway and asked her to cut down on her sewing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “No, not officially. But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Kainene walked over briskly and slapped the pregnant woman, two hard smacks in quick succession on her cheek. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The last boy she'd liked got her pregnant, left her alone, and took another girl to homecoming on the same night she gave birth. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z But that second time, I actually tried to get pregnant. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He was also continuing his own line; Emma was pregnant again. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Melissa didn’t know she was even pregnant at the time. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z There were about two dozen pregnant women in the Protectorate, but all of them had only just begun to show their bellies. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z In Sammy’s native Paducah, Kentucky, he had gotten a girl pregnant. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z All she could think of was how her friends would laugh when they found out she had a pregnant mother. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom was eight and a half months pregnant. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z She was too pregnant, too round, too exhausted. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z They know that you got pregnant and that you died. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Not even four months after James and I started dating, I started feeling an increasing nausea, I knew without a doubt that I was pregnant. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “We got married cause I was pregnant,” Miss Celia says, “but it... it slipped out too.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The pregnant woman fell back on her bed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Because if He is, why did He let you get pregnant? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z At the first opportunity I was going to tell Bodega that I had to go home to Blanca because she was pregnant. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “Is that what you did with Daddy after Iesha got pregnant?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z After she became pregnant, he captured a mare as his gift to her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They’ve invented a pill so married women don’t have to get pregnant. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The only sound came from the gusting winds and spit-warm pregnant rain; there was no traffic at all moving on the highway. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Today,” he says, “today I got the news that Megan was pregnant.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama had Janae while she was a teenager herself and only went for a couple of semesters before dropping out when she got pregnant with me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z If a dark ring formed, she was pregnant. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I supposed she was suffering the feminine hysteria common to pregnant women, but then I saw the recruit, standing in the small window of the projection booth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z While I was telling this story, a pregnant woman stood nearby, dabbing at her face with a tissue. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Shoba had been pregnant at the time, her stomach suddenly immense, to the point where Shukumar no longer wanted to touch her. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Her fears were not fully assuaged until she became pregnant early in the new year and delivered a healthy boy, John Eric Lawrence, in mid-October. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But when I was six months’ pregnant, a lot of them started sending me these articles about how the birth-defect rate went zooming up after thirty-five. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Up above, clouds will billow out of nowhere into dark monstrosities, pregnant with malevolent intent, and a clear blue sky is like a magnifying glass for a punishing sun. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z You weren’t big, like the pregnant ladies I see on TV or at the mall. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They believed that children float on logs in the heavens until the spirits of pregnant women claim them. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I remember when I found out I was pregnant with my first,” the woman said suddenly. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In that sense the secret is locked forever in the vast recesses of Burr’s famously enigmatic mind at that most pregnant moment. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z When she had been pregnant, she had felt like everything was twenty degrees hotter than it was, but now she just always felt cold. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “Everything in there looks fine. If you want to get pregnant, you shouldn’t have any trouble.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But the circumstances under which she had discovered herself to be pregnant had been such to make her decide, for his sake, to hold her peace awhile. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Emma had gotten pregnant with their third child around the time Charles finished Coral Reefs. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The previous Saturday, it had been a pregnant opera singer from Montreal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “She knew she was pregnant when she wrote that bull about how her husband wanted a baby, didn’t she?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z When Pecola gets her period in The Bluest Eye, her foster sisters tell her that she could get pregnant now. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She’s about thirty, is pregnant, and has a little girl who is four years old. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Mom and I had a bet on how long it would take before they were pregnant again, though I thought it was gross for Mom to be wagering on her eldest son’s sex life. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Did you tell them that I was pregnant when you left?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “If I got pregnant, you’d make me give it up, too?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Bad girls get pregnant, girls who have...you know. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z A pregnant mother who sold her body to get another hit. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It had only happened once with this man, and I was so uninformed that I wasn’t even sure that what we had done could get me pregnant. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z He's married, and I think his wife is pregnant now. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z If you are old or pregnant, or can’t go to the tracks for some other reason, bring food to the church, he tells them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “I looked at Constantine and I felt so much shame for her. To get pregnant in the first place and then to lie...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z To make matter worse for Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton announced that she was pregnant again, with her sixth baby. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I try rubbing my hand across my belly, hoping some sympathetic pregnant woman will become my sponsor and Haymitch can send in some water. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z But she remembered more than that, she remembered that Momma was pregnant with Sammy and that made her father angry. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “I shouldn’t have . . . She was pregnant when she died. Megan was pregnant. I’m so sorry.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I directed the remaining pregnant women to them. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She passed a note back saying, I think I’m pregnant. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In Shaker Heights, either teens did not get pregnant or they did an exceptionally good job of hiding it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Yesterday. When I was in your body. Don’t you remember? I think you might have gotten her pregnant.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z He said, “You and your mama were a single lot. See? The girls, they’re cheaper when they’re pregnant. Masters lose some months with her coming to bed, and the baby suckling....” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z This is how she found out she was pregnant with me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “A toast to you not being pregnant,” I say, raising my glass of water. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Mama, I think Blanca’s pregnant,” he said without beating around the bush. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Urn, Nancy is at work and she’s pregnant so I — ” “Pregnant! My niece is pregnant! Now that calls for more champagne. You tell her I must see her. I’m dying to see her.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The thing was that if we messed around and she did get pregnant I would probably have to have some help supporting her until I got to the NBA. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Besides, she was pregnant and I guess it was time for me to be starting to think about more than just the two of us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It bothered me to be shunned, but I was an unwed pregnant girl and I knew how people were. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “About my cousin Arize. She hasn’t even been married a year and she is desperate to get pregnant.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Microphone cables crisscrossed the living room, posing an obstacle course for a pregnant Molly as she waited impatiently for Ernest to traipse home from campus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Stanton was ready to return to reform work when, to her surprise and dismay, she learned that at age forty-three she was pregnant with her seventh child. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She had been pregnant and now she was not. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Finally, she was pregnant, and I warned her of the physical hardship and humiliations of jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z From the moment she learned that she was pregnant, my grandmother was again tormented by fears that the baby would suffer a hideous birth defect. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But Emily had been right about one thing: Three months after her parents brought Maya home from the hospital, their mother had discovered that she was pregnant with Lauren. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Ella changed into a dark-haired, extremely pregnant cloud nymph, writhing in pain on a camp bunk bed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She told the man, “I think I’m pregnant.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A pregnant woman gets on and sits in the first available seat. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The brother-in-law growled in his throat like a happy tomcat and the pregnant ladies twittered like alouettes singing to the sun. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A full moon is out tonight, and this moment feels just as full—almost pregnant. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Then it was my mom's job to get pregnant. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Later, when she told him she was pregnant with their child, he abandoned her, tossing her away like a picked-clean chicken bone. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The most horrifying part of my last year hadn’t been finding out I was pregnant, or getting kicked out of school. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “I saw your pictures of them. The women looked like pregnant Gethenians, but with larger breasts. Do they differ much from your sex in mind behavior? Are they like a different species?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She seemed extremely young to be pregnant, but he wasn’t good at judging women’s ages. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She rolled her eyes and laughed before telling me the baby was a week late already, but she didn’t mind, she loved being pregnant. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z By fifteen, she was pregnant with her first child. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Everyone else either already knew or saw me when I was pregnant.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z When I found out I was pregnant, I was furious. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The sculpture I’m seeing is two round bubble bodies, shoulder to shoulder, every part of the figures, spherical and full, curved bulging chests pregnant with the same breath, heads tilting upward, gazes sky-bound. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z A pregnant Fifi would have to do what is always done in such cases on the Island—marry immediately and brace herself for the gossip when her "premature baby" comes out fat and fully grown. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The pungent darkness, pregnant with intimate prickles, sparkling, too, bubbling like honeydew wine, flowed over their skin. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z With no money and no time to settle, we moved to a different ramshackle rental cottage or boardinghouse every season until I was so pregnant with Rachel that our nomad state seemed disreputable. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Kelly had been three months’ pregnant at the time. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Not with knitting needles or garden shears, or knives purloined from the kitchen, and especially not when we are pregnant. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Zita had taken the bus from Budapest to visit him, and she had an announcement to make: She was pregnant, and not by Bobby. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Nonsense. Rowing in moderation is very good for the pregnant lady.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z "I'm pregnant. I just wanted you to know that I've enjoyed your attention this semester and hope you keep up the good work." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z That your future isn’t ruined because you got pregnant. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z One day, when nothing has changed, nothing has been done or happened that is any different from usual, I discover I am pregnant. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Unmarried women who were thought to be pregnant were subjected to physical exams. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Ammu was eight months pregnant when war broke out with China. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Little eight-year-old me cried tears of happiness when I learned my mom was pregnant and I was going to have a little brother. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z When she sat behind a table you could not see that she was pregnant at all. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “My mother didn’t enjoy being pregnant. My father said that since he had a son, he didn’t need any more children.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He joked with pregnant women and gave small toys to children. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Okay, so say you are pregnant, where are you going to get the money? I mean, I know it’s expensive.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I don’t recollect trying to get pregnant that first time. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z A pregnant woman whom he had seen several times closed the door in his face. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Everybody had thought she must be pregnant, his dad had told him. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The grass was green and they'd meet and she'd be sent home pregnant, but even so, in less disgrace than I . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But when Mom had gotten pregnant with Teddy, she’d put her foot down. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The day she told him she was pregnant, she had used the very same words, saying them in the same gentle way, turning off the basketball game he’d been watching on television. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Erika was pregnant again, I had noticed, with a big scarf wrapped around her neck. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Annette, a twenty-year-old server who is six months pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend, lives with her mother, a postal clerk. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Seems like it would have taken the same angel who announced to Mary that she was pregnant with God and got her to be glad about it. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, if it’s as easy as catching my future from a blood relative, then I guess I’m due to be a drunk, pregnant, dropout stripper any day now. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z She wanted to travel to Buenos Aires and Spain, Germany and Colombia, but then she met Christian and got pregnant and found happiness in her new world. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Two months after we moved to Blythe, when Mom said she was twelve months pregnant, she at last gave birth. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She caressed his neck, buried her fingers in his dense hair, and when he slid into her, she thought about Arize’s pregnant belly, how easily it must have broken, skin stretched that taut. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Danny told me a few days later that his sister was pregnant. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Mr. Derby, dressed in a red velvet suit, escorted his now very pregnant wife into the room. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z For years I thought a girl might get pregnant if you touched her breasts. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Sure enough, the paramedics confirmed they’d received a call from someone at Pike Place, who’d witnessed “a pregnant Indian woman in need of immediate assistance.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When I first found out your mother was pregnant with you. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The latter had on a neat gray coat with the traditional pregnant- woman bow at her navel, a black cloche, and a pair of four- button ladies’ galoshes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Carey told of a pregnant woman who went into labor even while “her husband and two children lay dead in the same room with her.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z We caravanned to Kerry’s hometown with a bunch of people, squeezing into a car with Henry and Willow, who was so pregnant the seat belt wouldn’t fit over her bump. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But they could not deny that two thousand pregnant BDM girls applied for support from the National Socialist People’s Relief Administration. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Women in long-sleeved dresses, with kerchiefs covering their heads, many with infants in their arms, others heavily pregnant, sat on the stone steps of the stairways, talking loudly in Yiddish. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He took another napkin and wrote, Anna was pregnant. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The moment she got breasts they were bound and resented, a resentment that increased to outright hatred of her pregnant possibilities and never stopped until she married Louis Manfred, when suddenly it was the opposite. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She never told Elena when she was pregnant, so how could she tell her the pregnancy had ended? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She is six months pregnant, woozy from the pregnancy tranquilizers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z After Grace’s parents had found out that she was pregnant, they had met with Max’s parents. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z There was a pregnant pause, so long Koffi began to sweat. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “It usually takes a woman five or six months to get pregnant,” the doctor went on. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z For example, I was terrified of car accidents, death, cancer, brain tumors, nuclear war, pregnant women, loud noises, strict teachers, elevators, and scads of other things. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I had seven kids and was pregnant with you and I called one of my aunts to ask for help and she said, “Your brother died in the war.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Once a month, Mom takes the subway down to this actual jail and talks to criminal pregnant women about what to expect after they have their babies. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Mangoes so firm and sweet they made pregnant women weep. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Three more pregnant women had arrived and were resting comfortably in the makeshift maternity ward. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A chapter on what to do if your older sister gets pregnant, gets sent away to have the baby, and never comes back? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He said, “If white folks find out you’re pregnant by me, I will surely hang.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Makes me wonder if they planned to get pregnant at the same time so they could have their children together. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z One housing official roughly poked a young woman’s abdomen to determine if she was pregnant. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I thought about the day Mom and Dad found out you were pregnant. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z When the women were eight months pregnant, the first snow fell. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Pearl wasn’t pregnant. You realize Mom and her mom are probably going to kill her, and you threw her under the bus for no reason?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She’d like me pregnant though, over and done with and out of the way, no more humiliating sweaty tangles, no more flesh triangles under her starry canopy of silver flowers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Not “I’m pregnant” or “my water broke” or “there was an accident.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Richard’s mother, Jasmine, was already four and a half months pregnant when her grandmother took her to the doctor to get checked. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Though six months’ pregnant with her fifth child, my mother took the job; in fact, she was ecstatic over it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s when I told Minerva I was pregnant with a boy. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No multitude of words could have been more significant than those moments of silence, or more pregnant with the first-felt throb- bings of desire. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z About a week after telling her cousins she thought something was wrong, at the age of twenty-nine, Henrietta turned up pregnant with Joe, her fifth child. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Joseph pressed play again. “. . . and soon she became pregnant...” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z What if she is pregnant and Enrique dies trying to make it to his mother? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z My mom was pregnant with me at the time. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Cholly knew it was wrong to run out on a pregnant girl, and recalled, with sympathy, that his father had done just that. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z And he hadn't told them that Gerda was five months pregnant with his child. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z She didn’t mind being jostled, even when she was pregnant. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I was filled with eager anticipation when a pregnant Jackie left for the hospital to deliver her third child. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The letter she folded up and tucked into the back of her sweater drawer, right where her favorite sweater was, the one she had worn when she was pregnant, its knit soft and warm. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Like just because you got pregnant I’m going to join a gang and start swearing. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z When my mother first told me she was pregnant, she added, “At last! We really are going to fill this house up with children.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Then he'd clear his throat and give a deeply intoned order, as though each syllable were pregnant with nuances of profoundly important meaning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Though married, Ogorodnik also carried on a secret love affair with a Colombian woman—who was pregnant with his child. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He remembered how, months into trying to get pregnant the first time, she began to say with sulky righteousness, “All my friends who lived very rough lives are pregnant.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “This is three days before you were born—your mom’s pregnant with you here.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I was drawing pregnant stick images on the inner flap of my Introductory Agriculture for Junior Secondary Schools when he came into my room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Instead she discovered she was pregnant with me and shipped him divorce papers. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “She bombed the Germans while pregnant. What a hero!” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z As he talks, he makes a show of shifting his eyes to one of the handful of pre-party attendees, a pregnant woman named Kat who oversees HR for Burning Man. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They themselves do not wear black turtlenecks, but smocks, like pregnant women. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Though no longer pregnant, she continues, at times, to mix Rice Krispies and peanuts and onions in a bowl. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Usually, he doesn’t mess with me when I’m pregnant. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It all depends on how pregnant the woman is and whether or not she is with her boyfriend or husband and whether or not he is sitting down. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I want to know what Gramps felt when he learned my mom was pregnant. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She rubbed her still-flat belly and said, “Ten weeks. I wasn’t sure at first, even after I took a dozen home tests, but I went to my gyno and she confirmed it and...we’re pregnant!” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The youngest had just gone off with a German man when they discovered she was pregnant. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z A pregnant woman is just a glorified human incubator, Apollo argues, an intravenous bag dripping nutrients through the umbilical cord into her child. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It had been true ever since Mom told them she was pregnant with twins. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I didn’t suffer the agony of miscarriage, I just didn’t get pregnant. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just don’t get it. Why in the world would you give a pregnant woman a sympathy card?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z The virus is a catastrophe for a pregnant woman: the child is aborted spontaneously and is usually infected with Ebola virus, born with red eyes and a bloody nose. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was depressed, I was pregnant, I had been expelled from school, and I was leaving home. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Makes me forget I’m supposed to avoid all boys and men or else I’ll end up the pregnant loser my mother was. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Questions about Grandpa Sweetwine—he left when Grandma was pregnant with Dad and never came back—go unanswered like they did when she was alive. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z When I was a student at the school, my coeditor of the high school newspaper got his girlfriend pregnant. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I would hear other girls say, “Well, I didn’t get pregnant my first time, or the second.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Many domestic workers in South AMca, when they get pregnant they get fired. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “He’s in the city, I’m sure. His wife is pregnant and about to deliver any day.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Grace guessed that you really got to know a guy’s family once you got pregnant with their son’s baby. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z They like you pregnant and you like them to like you pregnant.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z But at fourteen weeks pregnant, Grace knew that there weren’t a lot of options on the table to discuss. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “This time it was. He was drunk, and he had a knife, and she told him that she thought she was pregnant. He didn’t believe it was his.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z It was at least a minute before I remembered that I couldn’t be pregnant. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On the way to Francis’s, a pregnant dog ran across the road in front of us. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Some rely, instead, on superstitions: Take a pregnant woman with you, and the snakes will sleep as you pass by. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z As in Omaha, my mother was pregnant again, this time with my youngest sister. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Moss, she was just a couple months pregnant when they killed her.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I was always known as the person that was going to be a druggie, or get pregnant before I turned fourteen and drop out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Did you drink a lot when you were pregnant with me?” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t get pregnant at the library, I tell her, but it doesn’t matter. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She was pregnant again, and her belly pressed against the fabric of her dress and strained the seams that zigzagged down the sides, where bits of flesh showed pale and soft between the stitches. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Every time my mother became pregnant, he would wait until the last three months of her pregnancy and then he would announce to her that ‘the glorious walks’ must begin. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew that she was pregnant—knew it, as the old folks said, in her bones; and if Richard should be sent away, what, under Heaven, could she do? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z But Vincent wants to be better than the man who had gotten her pregnant and then abandoned her. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She must have been pregnant when we fled the enclosure. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that no sooner did he roll in the pasture with a girl than she became pregnant. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They were swollen and puffy, fat looking, as if they were pregnant. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Arnold would have returned to the mountain again this year, except that she was seven months pregnant with their first child. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “In due season all that lives returns to dust, making the earth fecund with life. Smell how the air tonight is pregnant with the flowers’ blooms and their bee-sought sweetness.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Last but not least, let’s welcome Tiara Swan, Miss Mississippi. Fun fact about Tiara: She thought you could get pregnant from swimming with a guy.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Like her parents. She thought you’d kick her out, for getting pregnant.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His first wife was barren, and she flew into a jealous rage when Anna became pregnant. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Mom was dying to have a little girl, so when she and husband number two got together, she went and paid some doctor lots of money so she could get pregnant.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z And one of them was convicted for the much more interesting offense of killing his pregnant wife and eating her. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Celia trapped him into that marriage, telling him she was pregnant. I guess she was a compulsive liar even back then.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She checked in on the pregnant women and gave advice to the midwives and healers and apothecaries. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Many accounts said that Claudette was pregnant at the time she was arrested. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “Because I got pregnant and had a baby last month.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z And I just found out that I’m pregnant with my first child. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Garikayi married Chipo when she was only twelve, but she didn’t get pregnant till now. You can bet he’s anxious about it. He doesn’t have any children. It’s considered a disgrace.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Still, she was determined not to take ibuprofen because she was pregnant with Aurora and had heard it could hurt the baby. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z And children it would be, for four months after writing that letter, Emma was pregnant again. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I have Coach Hedge’s pregnant wife under my protection. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Then the woman had a friend who was also pregnant, and Mother delivered her baby as well. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I dropped out, I've been to exactly zero parties, and I've been asked out exactly zero times, including by the scum who got me pregnant. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore dark glasses, a blue maternity suit, and she was pregnant with what would be her fourth child. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Being queen would be the opposite of crawling back to the Doctorita pregnant and begging for my job back. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed out another woman, this one pregnant, accompanied by a small child and looking very happy to see her inmate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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