"I would never say that a complex word would precede a simply constructed word such as 'ma-ma,' " he responded. ❋ Eric Felten (2011)
The night of visitation at the funeral home, my family stood in line for hours, greeting all the people who had loved my ma-ma. ❋ Angela Thomas (2010)
Penny saying “ma-ma” and “da-da” just like the babies on Sesame Street . ❋ SHARON M. DRAPER (2010)
She delighted walked about the kitchen squeaking out "ma-ma, ma-ma" while I made her favorite- offbrand mac-n-cheese from a box. ❋ Zombie Mom (2009)
Yesterday, she pulled herself up in her little outdoor play-pen and distinctly said 'ma-ma' and held up her arms and smiled. ❋ Zombie Mom (2007)
First, if your child at one year is not babbling and that is the ma-ma, ba-ba sound, if your child's not babbling and isn't pointing at objects or pointing at people, that's a red flag. ❋ Unknown (2007)
At that moment a large woodpecker (the ma-ma) flew past, and lit on a tree. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Ma-ma, ma-ma," cried a number of other sophomores, imitating the cries of a baby. ❋ Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower (N/A)
In the seventeenth month there was a considerable advance in the use of sign-language (such as bringing a hat to the nurse as a request to go out), but still no words were spoken save _ma-ma, pa-pa_, etc. In the twentieth month the child could first repeat words of two unlike syllables. ❋ Various (N/A)
You'd get hit in the eye and go home to ma-ma in a minute. ❋ Herman Gastrell Seely (N/A)
These automata can be made by dexterous manipulation to jabber a little, like a doll with its monotonous ` ` ma-ma, '' or a cuckoo clock; but they lack even the sterile utility of the imitative art of ventriloquism. ❋ Unknown (1910)
But as he mentally rehearsed the meeting with his mother he clearly felt with the terror of a man who is beginning to lose his reason and who realizes it, that this old woman in the black little kerchief was only an artificial, mechanical puppet, of the kind that can say "pa-pa," "ma-ma," but somewhat better constructed. ❋ Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev (1895)
Then the painful experience of discipline and punishment reveals the same motherly figure in the new light of a protector and comforter, and it learns to contrast her with the stern persons whom she has taught it to call pa-pa and ma-ma. ❋ Edward Hamilton Aitken (1880)
When we see a child love and mind his pa-pa and ma-ma, we think it a sign that GOD will bless him, and that his days may be long in his land. ❋ William A. Campbell (1864)
Shortly after learning '' ma-ma '' and '' da-da, '' Ginger and Ruby Rosenheck said '' bye-bye '' to their high chairs. ❋ Unknown (2009)
OK, so it's not exactly ma-ma yet, but he'll get there. ❋ Unknown (2009)
