How to Use inseminate in a Sentence

inseminate

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• She was artificially inseminated in January.
• Yet in the past Swanson successfully inseminated three zoo ocelots using frozen nonwild sperm, resulting in kittens.
  — Amy Mathews Amos, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2023
• Then you're inseminated with the sperm that are the sex of your choice.
  — Andrea Stanley, Redbook, 6 Mar. 2017
• The tails of the male dinosaurs aren’t in the right position to inseminate the females.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 12 July 2012
• In sharks these are known as claspers, and either one can be used to inseminate the female.
  — Louise Gentle, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2018
• For that reason, Durrant and her team were able to inseminate the zoo’s rhinos by hand.
  — Damon Casarez, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2021
• The only part of their body that protrudes from the host is the brood canal, an opening through which males inseminate the female and larvae crawl to the outside world.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 25 Feb. 2017
• Some species of flatworm engage in this duel to see who can inseminate the other.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
• She was inseminated with semen from the zoo’s 19-year-old male panda Tian Tian.
  — Washington Post, 26 May 2017
• The case is not the first time a Dutch fertility doctor has been unmasked for using his own sperm to inseminate women.
  — Fox News, 6 Oct. 2020
• Child's grandparents say no More:Her doctor used his sperm to inseminate her.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 25 Feb. 2023
• Screams ensue when the celebs are asked to sheer sheep, corral pigs and even artificially inseminate cows.
  — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 6 Dec. 2021
• To salvage the subspecies, a group of scientists harvested eggs from the two and inseminated them with sperm collected from Suni and Saut, two bulls in a Czech zoo, before their deaths.
  — The Economist, 20 Sep. 2019
• Take similar comfort in the fact that humans don’t need to drink urine to start a relationship, as is the case with giraffes, nor inseminate each other via open wounds, as bed bugs do.
  — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2020
• The fecund doctor, Donald Cline, has since admitted to lying to patients and using his own sperm to inseminate them.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2018
• The viable embryo is just the third to be created in a lab with eggs taken from the females and inseminated with frozen sperm from dead males, according to Wednesday’s statement.
  — Cara Anna, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2020
• If a female hasn’t mated, or has mated with a dud male who’s known to have poor quality sperm, the team artificially inseminates her with sperm from a stud.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2017
• The scientists achieved this by recovering eggs from some of their captive cheetahs and inseminating them with sperm in their lab.
  — Rochelle Beighton and Rachel Wood, CNN, 19 Mar. 2020
• The researchers’ workaround was to use a hydraulic restraining device that would keep a female oryx still enough—and gently—for researchers to inject or inseminate her.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
• In the first few episodes, Jane gets artificially inseminated by her doctor and ends up being pregnant by her super-hot boss and ex-crush Rafael Solano.
  — Lluvia Perez, Teen Vogue, 1 Aug. 2019
• According to the New York Times, Epstein hoped that multiple women would be inseminated with his sperm.
  — Sharon Begley, STAT, 5 Aug. 2019
• Le Le's sperm was frozen and used to inseminate female pandas at other locations, which helped boost the species' population.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2023
• During the 1990s, many clinics deemed it necessary to inseminate as many of a patient’s eggs as possible, because many embryos didn’t make it through the freezing and thawing process.
  — NBC News, 12 Aug. 2019
• Dairy cows are inseminated with the aim of creating a beef-dairy hybrid calf that will reach maturity quickly.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• Named as the Doctor of the Year by the state, Fortier was later sued by at least two patients for fraudulently using his own sperm to artificially inseminate them.
  — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2020
• Mortimer then recommended that Ashby be inseminated with her husband’s sperm and that of an anonymous donor in 1980.
  — Amanda Arnold, The Cut, 3 Apr. 2018
• Adams also artificially inseminates his dogs, crops their ears and docks their tails.
  — Bob Warren, NOLA.com, 15 July 2017
• The show opens with the revelation that a doctor (Timothy Hutton) has inseminated dozens of women with his own sperm, without their knowledge.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 18 Sep. 2019
• At the time, Rowlette didn’t know that more than 36 years ago, her parents had tapped a fertility doctor to artificially inseminate her mother.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• It might be coated with compounds capable of making sperm wriggle in place, keeping them from inseminating a woman’s egg.
  — Zoë Schlanger, Newsweek, 15 Dec. 2014

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024