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.
• The female then lays her eggs in the gravel and the male fertilizes them.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• The most massive trees are found near the riverbanks, fertilized by dead salmon.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Jan. 2020
• The female deposits eggs on the ceiling, and the male fertilizes them.
  — National Geographic, 6 Feb. 2020
• The idea here is to fertilize the oceans with iron to stimulate algae and plankton blooms.
  — USA Today, 24 Dec. 2019
• Next, Cheng added frog sperm, although his intent wasn’t (and couldn’t be) to fertilize the mixture.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2020
• The flowers and broadleaf plants pull nitrogen from the air and deposit it into the ground, which fertilizes the soil.
  — NBC News, 30 Nov. 2019
• Just cut back on the water and stop fertilizing through winter, and try to keep the plant out of the direct blast zone of an air conditioner.
  — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 14 Jan. 2020
• Solicitors who want to sell you magazines or fertilize your yard have ruined it for neighbors who just want to invite you over to feed you.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• The lakes are also fertilized to maximize fish production.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 29 Jan. 2020
• Davis and Jerris point out that while most golfers do not play from the back tees, those areas still have to be watered, fertilized and maintained for the few golfers who do.
  — David Dusek, Golfweek, 4 Feb. 2020
• In principle, this approach could allow a woman’s skin cells to be engineered into sperm and used to fertilize her partner’s egg.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2020
• Houseplants generally do not need to be fertilized, but if one is ailing, use a half strength liquid fertilizer.
  — Earl Nickel, SFChronicle.com, 24 Jan. 2020
• That’s mainly because the animals are fertilizing the water bodies they frequent with their feces.
  — National Geographic, 31 Jan. 2020
• Limiting the number of eggs that can be fertilized would create major financial barriers.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, Allure, 13 Sep. 2024
• If a sperm cell carrying an X chromosome fertilizes the ovum, the fetus will be genetically female.
  — Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 19 Sep. 2024
• Its chemical contents also encourage sperm storage for fertilizing the eggs later.
  — Priyanka Runwal, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024