How to Use fertilization in a Sentence

fertilization

noun

• And this was just the first fertilization of the season.
  — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
• The fertilization helps green up the lawn as long as the roots and blades have developed.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 6 May 2022
• That cross-fertilization may just need a little longer to come to fruition.
  — Mat Ombler, Wired, 4 Nov. 2021
• Haas gave birth to a boy through in vitro fertilization in 2008.
  — Arpan Lobo, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2023
• The law bans nearly all abortions at the time of fertilization.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2022
• Stop fertilization and bring the plant inside before the first frost.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2025
• Over-fertilization can cause plants to grow leggy and can even kill them.
  — Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2016
• In mammals, fertilization occurs when a sperm cell swims out to fuse with an egg.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2018
• Here are his nine easy-to-follow rules for lawn fertilization.
  — Brett Martin, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2023
• In the winner-takes-all game of fertilization, millions of sperm race toward the egg that’s waiting at the finish line.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2017
• The following embryos show the morning and evening of the third day after fertilization, the fifth day, and the ninth day, shortly before the egg hatched.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2020
• But that plan was dashed with the March 3-4 incident at the fertilization clinic.
  — James F. McCarty, cleveland.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• The couple is trying to have a baby and needs to rely on in-vitro fertilization to do so.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2023
• When April hits and spawning season begins the milt is shipped back here to begin the fertilization process.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 27 Sep. 2022
• Scientists knew that Izumo1 allowed sperm to join to an egg to begin the process of fertilization.
  — Erika Check Hayden, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2014
• Kaine is said to be bringing Elizabeth Carr, the first person in the US to be born via in vitro fertilization, as his guest.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2024
• The fourth type, the common fig, is parthenocarpic, meaning the fruit forms without fertilization.
  — oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2021
• As a result, the rates of egg fertilization also dropped after the first 10 matings.
  — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
• Light fertilization with bulb fertilizer (low nitrogen) should be applied when the plants reemerge in the spring, and again in the fall when the plants die back.
  — OregonLive.com, 6 June 2018
• Cities are promising to cover the cost of in vitro fertilization.
  — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
• The timing of fertilization should be split three times per year, starting in early spring (~late April), then mid-May, and lastly in mid-June.
  — oregonlive, 4 Mar. 2023
• After both sperm and egg retrieval, fertilization occurs, the goal of which is a healthy embryo.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 6 May 2022
• If fertilization is successful, the seedpods will develop and ripen in a few weeks to a few months.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 20 July 2017
• Then there is Trump’s promise to make in vitro fertilization (IVF) free.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• In the wild, fertilization happens as the eggs and sperm from different colonies meet each other in the water column.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Dec. 2021
• To help encourage more of that sperm to be used for fertilization instead of food, the sperm-donor snail has another trick up its sleeve.
  — Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
• Johnson said Griner was the one who pushed to have two babies, even though the pair were warned by doctors about higher health risks during the fertilization process.
  — The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2022
• Some species exchange sperm via internal fertilization and then lay egg capsules in or on the ground, Ducey says.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 15 July 2017
• Exposure to organic carbon showed negative impacts with oocyte survival, fertilization and embryo quality, the study said.
  — Tracy J. Wholf, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2025
• The memoir also details Neeley’s experience becoming pregnant at 19, giving birth at 20 and losing her child’s father in a car accident, as well as her experience with in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 6 Mar. 2025