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
  • The astronaut’s journey with trying to conceive a second child via in vitro fertilization has been challenging, to say the least.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2025
  • One order aimed to cut costs for in vitro fertilization, or IVF, but fell well short of his campaign promise to fully fund the fertility treatments for all.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025

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