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5833 examples of Father in a sentence

Inside, all of us panting, I sat a moment and I heard Rafi telling his father, "Father, you can run faster than me."
Thousands of children will learn that their mother or father has been sent to jail for using drugs.
My father was a hardworking baker, but when he had finished work in the bakery, he often told me and my brother stories.
My father was there to provide it.
As the son of a farmer who knew how to hunt, my father was an excellent marksman.
At this decisive moment in Dutch history my father was positioned on the bank of the river Waal near the city of Nijmegen.
My father had been given an old gun that could not even reach the opposite riverbank.
Hitler's troops marched on, and there was nothing my father could do about it.
Until the day my father died, he was frustrated about missing these shots.
Until that day comes, I stand for my father who tried to shoot the Nazis with an old gun.
I hope you will support the efforts of our armed forces to train soldiers like this young captain and provide her with a good gun, instead of the bad gun my father was given.
Or say things like, "How can she be a father?
However, unlike the other male guardians of my family, my father was one who really supported my ambitions.
Her father died soon after she was born.
Our father was a hotheaded man, somebody who didn't take kindly to being disturbed on Saturday mornings.
I dare say my father was never fooled by this ruse.
And with good reason: you have just one mother, you have just one father if you do marriage right, you have one spouse for life.
One of the same studies I looked at both here and in the book found that, improbably, the most common favorite for a father is the last-born daughter.
And it's not just that fathers are habitually wrapped around the fingers of their little girls, though I can tell you that, as the father of two girls, that part definitely plays a role.
As the result, the father who is a businessman will just melt at the idea of his MBA daughter with a tough-as-nails worldview.
We can do what we need to do, but it will take every entrepreneur, every artist, every scientist, every communicator, every mother, every father, every child, every one of us.
She gave a wonderful example of Michael Corleone, Al Pacino's character in "The Godfather," and that probably his spine was to please his father.
Even after his father died, he was still trying to scratch that itch.
Marlin's, the father in "Finding Nemo," was to prevent harm.
PV: "My father means everything to me.
My father's currently being wrongly incarcerated for 12 years.
But I'm afraid I'll go missing in her life just like my father did in mine."
And he credits that conversation with his father as giving him a sense that the simplest questions could carry you out to the edge of human knowledge, and that that's where he wanted to play.
Her mother died while giving birth to her, and no one had any idea who her father was."
2010: A young woman stands before President Sirleaf and gives her testimony of how she and her siblings live together, their father and mother died during the war.
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