How to Use fertilize in a Sentence

fertilize

verb

• The soil is so rich there is no need to fertilize.
• He fertilizes the lawn every year.
• A single sperm fertilizes an egg.
• Bees fertilize plants as they collect nectar from flowers.
• When is the best time to fertilize the plants and what to use?
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Nov. 2019
• Of course renters also don’t have to fertilize the lawn, trim the trees and rake up all the leaves.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 3 July 2019
• In the spring over-seed any weak spots and fertilize again.
  — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2020
• Once established, fertilize your plants in the fall and again in the spring as the shoots come out of the ground.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 18 June 2020
• The female then lays her eggs in the gravel and the male fertilizes them.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• If those eggs can be fertilized with the once-frozen sperm, the species could have a future.
  — Andrea Foa, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2019
• Milt flows down the female’s body to fertilize the eggs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
• The urine will be collected and used to fertilize green spaces in the city.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2022
• Here, the idea is to fertilize the egg outside of the body and then put the resulting embryo back in.
  — Brooke Borel, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• Right at the top of the list of questions is whether to fertilize houseplants during the winter.
  — Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2022
• The female deposits eggs on the ceiling, and the male fertilizes them.
  — National Geographic, 6 Feb. 2020
• This allows the grass to fertilize in the winter, thus boosting growth in the spring and summer.
  — Melissa Nott, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2021
• Or worse, we will be told to go out and fertilize and kill dandelions at the same time.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2022
• Astronauts crushed the testes and used the sperm to fertilize eggs obtained from the female frogs.
  — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
• Those eggs were then fertilized with sperm and led to healthy baby mice.
  — TIME, 2 May 2024
• Place it in indirect to low light and fertilize it once or twice a year.
  — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 7 June 2022
• The most massive trees are found near the riverbanks, fertilized by dead salmon.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Jan. 2020
• If the foliage begins to lose its rich green color and the plants bloom less, that's when to fertilize.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• The fish waste is used as nutrients to fertilize the plants, which filter the water to be reused in the fish tank.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
• This keeps the sperm from reaching and fertilizing the egg.
  — Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 13 July 2023
• Out of the 14 eggs retrieved, only 11 of them matured enough to be fertilized with sperm.
  — Paige Stables, Allure, 16 Nov. 2023
• How pollen affects your body? Plants, trees and grass release pollen in the spring to fertilize other plants of the same species.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
• Use the grounds to fertilize your home garden or, for an extra fee, Mill will pick them up for you.
  — Jared Lindzon, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
• The best management approach for red thread is to fertilize your lawn and let your lawn grow out of it.
  — oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2023
• During the process, an egg is removed from a woman’s ovaries and fertilized with sperm in a lab.
  — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 12 June 2024
• And that works by stopping or delaying ovulation, that's the release of an egg, so there's no egg for the sperm to fertilize.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024