How to Use procreate in a Sentence
procreate
verb- Animals have a natural instinct to procreate.
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That's what you are born to do is procreate, to do this.
—Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
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If there is less of a risk, then the drive to procreate seems less pressing.
—oregonlive, 17 Oct. 2020
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All this will help bring you back to the idea that your body belongs to you and is not just there to procreate.
—refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2022
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In fact, one of the first things God says is instructing Adam and Eve to procreate.
—Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 4 Mar. 2020
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On the fifth step, a vow to procreate, Balaji glanced back with a coy smile at Nidhi.
—Abhijith Ravinutala, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
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In their offseason, the goats get to rest, recreate and procreate.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
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The characters mustn’t just live and breathe but bicker and brood, create and procreate.
—Thelma Adams, Variety, 15 Jan. 2022
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The Czech Republic started giving parents cash to procreate in the 2000s, and has seen more births over time.
—Jessica Hullinger, The Week, 13 July 2021
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Nobody warned us how difficult this would be, to raise kids and to hold a job, as if once the truth got out there, no one would ever procreate.
—Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
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None of the lasting, successful couples on the show have procreated, a fact that seems to have perturbed Lachey.
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
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Single women, husbands, gay couples, as well as people found on any point of the gender spectrum, all have the choice to procreate — and the choice not to.
—Alex Williams, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2021
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Movement is one of our 10 life functions — on the same list as eating, sleeping and procreating.
—Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2019
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The 2018 law releases the partner who doesn't want to procreate from any obligations.
—Maria Polletta, azcentral, 23 Jan. 2020
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Men wanted to procreate and needed someone to care for those children.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
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Several of its common species, like black spruce, and jack and lodgepole pines, cannot procreate without fire.
—Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
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The Constitution protects people’s right to choose whether and when to procreate.
—Breanna Edwards, The Root, 28 July 2017
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Today, around a third of attempts to procreate via IVF are successful, a rate that varies based on your condition.
—Halle Tecco, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2022
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The few fertile women are captured and forced to help wealthy families procreate.
—Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg.com, 18 Sep. 2017
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But the urge to face an uncertain future and procreate in the face of adversity is supposed to be part of the human condition.
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2023
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The trillions of 17-year Brood X cicadas took parks and backyards of 15 states by storm last month, aiming to procreate and die – lest they get eaten by residents' pet schnauzers.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 19 June 2021
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Men are able to procreate into their 90s, and our bodies don’t even give us the option after about 50, which is one of the reasons our desire decreases.
—Didi Gluck, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Aug. 2019
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Thus, anyone who wants to procreate will have to fill out an application and submit it directly to me.
—Megan Amram, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
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Free markets work, which means a decision among the people in a market to procreate less must be a positive signal.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 16 May 2021
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Those efforts try to address what seems to be the root cause of hesitancy to procreate: Children are too expensive.
—Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2023
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In the tech sector, in particular, a long-running war for highly skilled talent has led to a kind of arms race of rich benefits for those who procreate or adopt.
—Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 29 Dec. 2020
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Though not explicitly covered in the aforementioned study, the fact that men are predisposed to want to procreate as much as possible might be a part of this.
—Mallory Schlossberg, Redbook, 20 Feb. 2017
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Do men who don’t procreate receive punishment from the universe?
—Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 13 May 2018
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Every spring, as temperatures rise, midge flies emerge to look for mates, procreate and lay their eggs in Lake Michigan before dying after, at most, just a few weeks.
—Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2024
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In the wake of the Great Recession in 2008, birth rates fell, just as economic theory would predict — when incomes go down, would-be parents are less likely to procreate.
—Patrick T. Brown, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
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