How to Use infertile in a Sentence

infertile

adjective

• The plants produced from such a union will be infertile.
  — Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2021
• Still, as many as 80 percent of men who are infertile have low sperm counts.
  — Hallie Levine, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
• About 20 percent of those eggs don’t hatch or are infertile.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 26 Jan. 2021
• One is infertile and the other is not able to reproduce on her own.
  — National Geographic, 31 Mar. 2018
• She was also warned that the treatment could make her infertile.
  — Claire Altschuler, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
• Forest was cut down and burned before planting, and then, when the plot became infertile, the farmer moved to fresh forestland and did the same again.
  — Michael E Odijie, Quartz Africa, 10 Oct. 2019
• The outlook for the species is dire: Both mother and daughter are infertile, and the last surviving male, Sudan, died in March at age 45.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 5 July 2018
• Tehya and Goliath recently bred and produced two eggs of their own, but both were infertile.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2022
• The study found that exposing male frogs to the chemical turned 75% infertile, but turned one-tenth of them into female frogs.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 13 July 2023
• The two remaining females, Najin and Fatu, have been deemed infertile.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 4 July 2018
• But the toxic drugs and radiation used in her treatment were likely to injure her ovaries and leave her infertile.
  — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 2 Apr. 2020
• Both are descendants of Sudan and live in Kenya, and were considered infertile.
  — Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 5 July 2018
• The name comes from a local legend that infertile women who trek through the island's dense forest and bathe in its mystical lake will be able to have children.
  — Ronan O'Connell, CNN, 10 May 2017
• Marthas are infertile women who have been assigned as cooks and cleaners to elite families.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Sep. 2022
• Men and women can also be left infertile due to exposure.
  — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 21 Sep. 2017
• What is the one-term for the process by which fertile land becomes infertile desert land -- and that can be caused by drought, deforestation, or poor farmland management?
  — CNN, 18 Dec. 2020
• Skating usually works best in the infertile currents of medium- to fast-moving freestone streams.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 26 June 2020
• Set in the dystopian future of 2027 where women are now infertile, Theo (Owen) meets a pregnant woman and is forced to try to safely transport her to sanctuary.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Feb. 2019
• As many as 70 percent of koalas might be infected, and 90 percent of those animals are infertile.
  — Gloria Dickie, Scientific American, 2 Mar. 2021
• In fact, one recent small study looked at a panel of infertile men who were supplemented with 600 milligrams of NAC daily for a total of three months.
  — Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2023
• The Celestial Bed is supposed to help infertile couples.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
• As most Wives are infertile, they're assigned Handmaids in order to procreate and start families of their own.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Sep. 2022
• For one thing, Handmaid's Tale shows more of the Marthas, particularly Rita, as much more than infertile house servants.
  — Sabrina Rojas Weiss, refinery29.com, 5 June 2019
• While most hybrid species survive into adulthood, some hybrid species like mules are infertile and others, like the liger—a mix between a lion and a tiger—are fertile.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2022
• Money off of breeding potential is not guaranteed; the first beagle to ever win best in show, Uno, was infertile.
  — Christine Mui, Fortune, 23 June 2022
• Use ingestible birth control, which renders male rats infertile and causes females to reach menopause more quickly.
  — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• The program renders the flies infertile, part of a decades-long effort to protect livestock by keeping the screwworm flies—and their flesh-eating, parasitic larvae—away.
  — National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2019
• Tehya and Goliath were paired together to produce new offspring, but the couple had recently laid two infertile eggs.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2022
• There are an estimated 2 million infertile couples in the U.S. waiting to adopt a baby.
  — Dan Hart, National Review, 7 June 2019
• If crops are not rotated properly, the soil can become infertile and nothing can be grown for several years.
  — Claire Wolters, National Geographic, 22 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024