"child" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It could not be easy for a childless woman to foster her husband's strong, healthy, well-loved child by some other woman.
- He patted the console like a well-loved child.
- He was the weary father, forced to administer punishment to a well-loved, albeit irresponsible, child.
- The furniture was of good quality, but with the touch of shabby comfort about it that furnishings often acquire in a house where there are many well-loved children.
- The Ancestor snorted, but rather fondly, Acorna thought, very much in the same way a tolerant grandparent might act toward a well-loved but rambunctious child.
- Carl smiled at him as a parent would smile at a slow but well-loved child.
- Brown seems to regard Robinson, appreciatively, as something of a puzzle - like a well-loved middle child who's also something of a handful.
- There was evidence of well-loved children everywhere: Tyco toys, bikes, a basketball net, dueling swings, a makeshift lemonade stand.
- The creature, raised like a well-loved child and never allowed the least bit of hunger, was entirely tame and comfortable around people.
- The yellow mare was not merely a helpful 1 companion, or a pet, or even a well-loved child.
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