How to Use day care in a Sentence

day care

noun
  • She left work early to pick up her son from day care.
  • His cousin, Asean, was born in the same month and went to the same day care center.
    — Ryn Jirenuwat, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022
  • When will Austin be ready to send her son back to day care?
    — Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 1 July 2020
  • What are the trade-offs of not sending my kid to day care?
    — New York Times, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The coronavirus forced Gaines to shut the day care, and her temp work dried up.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The day care is located at the end of a driveway off a cul-de-sac.
    — Rob Gillies, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
  • In the first two months of the pandemic, day care centers cut 35% of their staffs.
    — Anneken Tappe, Clare Duffy and Tal Yellin, CNN, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Someone has to send a sitter home or pick up the kids from day care.
    — Laura Vanderkam, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2020
  • It has not yet been determined whether staff at the day care will be charged.
    — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • This time around Francona did it with a roster straight out of day care.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Most schools and day care centers have guidelines on when to keep a child at home.
    — Libby Richards, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024
  • But both spouses work outside the home and drop off their 3- and 5-year-old sons at day care.
    — Shannon Prather, Star Tribune, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The Police Department's goal is to open its day care center by the fall of 2024.
    — Dana Rieck The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (tns), arkansasonline.com, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Kids drew the huelga (strike) flag at day care and walked the picket lines with their parents.
    — Alexei Koseff, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Fouziya Bawazir runs a 24-hour day care center in her home in Hayward.
    — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Reassured, Leah left to pick up her sons – then ages 2 and 3 – from day care.
    — USA Today, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Bullets hit his car and the day care, both of which had children inside.
    — David Harris, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Many home day care centers have already had to close their doors.
    — cleveland, 18 July 2023
  • Not even a month in, however, the day care’s owner got Covid-19.
    — New York Times, 9 May 2021
  • Brazil has seen at least one past attack on a day care center, too.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • And for those times when parents want to nap or get a body wrap, there’s a full-time day care service.
    — Demarco Williams, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Pattikakes', a day care in Tewksbury for two decades, has shut down.
    — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2023
  • First of all, your house doesn’t look like a day care center, because there, the adults clean up at the end of a workday.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Workers in small, home day care centers have borne the brunt of those closures.
    — Sonja Sharp, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The day care had no record of the 1-year-old being dropped off, according to police.
    — NBC News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The latter isn’t great, given that a kid with a fever is supposed to stay home from school or day care.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • In March, Heston-Davis pulled her son, who is now 19 months old, out of day care.
    — Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 1 July 2020
  • David Bosquet drops his son off at day care before heading to work at Rapid7.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
  • But the busy mother of two in Rhinelander, Wis., had missed the message saying her son was no longer welcome back at the day care as of that Friday.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • That case involved a Lutheran church in Missouri that sought a state grant to improve the playground for its day care center.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2025

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