How to Use procreate in a Sentence

procreate

verb

• Animals have a natural instinct to procreate.
• That's what you are born to do is procreate, to do this.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
• If there is less of a risk, then the drive to procreate seems less pressing.
  — oregonlive, 17 Oct. 2020
• 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
• In fact, one of the first things God says is instructing Adam and Eve to procreate.
  — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 4 Mar. 2020
• On the fifth step, a vow to procreate, Balaji glanced back with a coy smile at Nidhi.
  — Abhijith Ravinutala, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
• In their offseason, the goats get to rest, recreate and procreate.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• The characters mustn’t just live and breathe but bicker and brood, create and procreate.
  — Thelma Adams, Variety, 15 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Movement is one of our 10 life functions — on the same list as eating, sleeping and procreating.
  — Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2019
• The 2018 law releases the partner who doesn't want to procreate from any obligations.
  — Maria Polletta, azcentral, 23 Jan. 2020
• Men wanted to procreate and needed someone to care for those children.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• 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
• The Constitution protects people’s right to choose whether and when to procreate.
  — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 28 July 2017
• 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
• The few fertile women are captured and forced to help wealthy families procreate.
  — Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Do men who don’t procreate receive punishment from the universe?
  — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 13 May 2018
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024