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stepchild

[ UK /stˈɛpt‍ʃa‍ɪld/ ]
[ US /ˈstɛpˌtʃaɪɫd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a child of your spouse by a former marriage

How To Use stepchild In A Sentence

  • As she enters her 40s with a new husband and two stepchildren, she isn't longing for the days of her youth and hopes other women aren't either.
  • Now, she lives there with her son, husband, three stepchildren and 18-month-old daughter.
  • But where the father moves on and becomes a step-parent he, and his parents, become more engaged with the stepchildren.
  • As a native of the area around Mobile, Alabama, a place long ridiculed by many as the nation's stepchild, it amused me that what was disdained as a redneck corner of the universe populated by ignorant and racist whites and besieged blacks became the "sunbelt" in the 1970s and as soon as those "cheeseheads" arrived in "crackerland" with no more need for their snowtires and discovered giant flying cockroaches and mildew among other horrors and complained mightily about the tropics they had naively sought, they became disenchanted. Lake Level Sucks 11-19-05
  • Although close to her two stepchildren, she saw no need to be perceived as nurturing. Times, Sunday Times
  • RLS is essentially a stepchild of other neurologic disorders such as Parkinsonism and anxiety, conditions to which it is unrelated but whose pharmacologic treatments it has inherited.
  • Thereafter they were inseparable, despite the wicked stepmother status accorded by her stepchildren. Times, Sunday Times
  • She has two stepchildren and a granddaughter. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the whole family cannot return with him to Pakistan, there is nothing preventing the respondent from returning to Pakistan and making an entry application to join his wife and stepchildren in the United Kingdom.
  • Vicki's brother had stepchildren and it had taken years before they'd all settled down into a proper family. JUST BETWEEN US
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