How to Use hatchery in a Sentence

hatchery

noun
  • The seeds are put in a hatchery where the kelp can grow.
    Alexis Benveniste, CNN, 3 May 2021
  • Learn more about the hatcheries at michigan.gov/hatcheries.
    Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The hatchery closed in 2008 due to heavy rain and fire damage.
    Roberto Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Warm weather months are the top time for birds to raid the hatchery ponds.
    Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 21 May 2018
  • Powell phoned the hatchery and asked his staff to call around.
    Author: Richard Read, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2021
  • The hatchery, 30 feet long, is built in the shape of a giant green sea turtle.
    New York Times, 7 July 2018
  • The trout pond is back, too, to provide a chance to catch dinner fresh from the hatchery.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2018
  • In 1994, the Nez Perce Tribe began restoring the fishery with the aid of hatcheries.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 25 Oct. 2023
  • With a turn of a wheel, the hatchery’s flowing water was cut off.
    Alexis Stevens, ajc, 6 June 2018
  • Some of those wild springers are being passed along to the hatchery for in-basin broodstock.
    Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 30 July 2022
  • The wounded half-cylinder of the hatchery gaped open high above the pampas grass.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Plus, the state hatchery system doesn’t raise all the species currently found in the wild.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Pretty soon the back seat was a bird hatchery, and even dad couldn’t suppress a smile.
    Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 28 June 2018
  • The hatchery is located in Cornville, two hours north of Phoenix.
    Jodicee Arianna, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2022
  • From there, the feds dole out the eggs to multiple Game and Fish hatcheries in Arizona.
    Joshua Bowling, azcentral, 9 May 2018
  • The Matunuck hatchery will have two main floors and a third-floor mezzanine.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • In the 1800s, the site held a farm and what’s believed to have been the nation’s first freshwater fish hatchery.
    Grant Segall, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2019
  • The limits remain the same, but now one of the salmon in the daily bag can be a chinook, hatchery or wild.
    oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2021
  • And those draw baby fowl from just about half a dozen large hatcheries across the country.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Behind the hatchery is a drawing of a Chippewa Chief carved in 1937.
    Amelia Benavides-Colón, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2024
  • This hatchery stocked 159 inland and Great Lakes sites.
    Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2024
  • First, the team must establish if the fish can even survive in their hatchery.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The tribe then turned its attention to helping the state increase the number of salmon caught for the hatchery.
    Chris Aadland, oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2022
  • One part of the discovery came last June, when researchers spotted the rare hatchery for the first time.
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Chinook hatchery stocks are among the most important for the whales.
    Gene Johnson, Star Tribune, 3 Mar. 2021
  • All state hatcheries ran on skeleton crews throughout March and most of April.
    Matt Williams, Dallas News, 9 May 2020
  • Valencia and his allies built a hatchery in the town of Jaque shaded by wood and wire.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • In 2013, Thurston Energy applied to drill two test wells mere feet from the fish hatchery.
    Stephanie Mencimer, WIRED, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Read more here about how to visit, or volunteer at, the hatchery.
    Alan Berner, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Some hatcheries will also provide fish for additional stockings this fall.
    Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2024

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