How to Use sperm cell in a Sentence

sperm cell

noun

• The lab found a sperm cell that did not belong to Bogle.
  — Traci Rosenbaum, USA TODAY, 11 June 2021
• The crime lab found sperm cells on her pink and blue underwear.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 1 May 2018
• The egg and sperm cells cultivate the most interest, and the goal is to create and unite them.
  — Ashley Braun, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2019
• The lab found a sperm cell that did not belong to Bogle, officers said.
  — NBC News, 11 June 2021
• But a donor’s blood cells should not be able to create new sperm cells, Dr. Rezvani said.
  — Heather Murphy, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2019
• As the reproductive cells of the body, these can be either egg cells or sperm cells.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 15 Jan. 2019
• The semen sample is then analyzed in a lab, and as long as the sample contains live sperm cells, it can be frozen and stored.
  — Samantha Lauriello, Health, 14 Mar. 2023
• First, the sperm cell has to be activated so its little tail starts wagging.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2018
• After one sperm cell joined to the egg, Juno disappeared from the egg surface within 30–45 minutes.
  — Erika Check Hayden, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2014
• In mammals, fertilization occurs when a sperm cell swims out to fuse with an egg.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2018
• The eggs were fertilized by male sperm cells and implanted in female mice's uteruses.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 16 Mar. 2023
• The boys were at the age when their sperm cells — the vessels that would transmit their genetic material — were forming.
  — Judith Finlayson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• Scientists diagnose a mysterious blockage in the flowers that keeps the sperm cells in the pollen from reaching the ovule.
  — Richard Conniff, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• The enzyme appears to play a major role in activating a sperm cell’s ability to swim.
  — WIRED, 14 Feb. 2023
• Each sperm cell moved like a spinning top, rotating around its own axis, and also around a middle axis.
  — Courtney Sexton, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2020
• Both egg and sperm cells contain mitochondria, of course; without a power supply, sperm could not move.
  — Stephen Jay Gould, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• But ouabain also affects another type of transporter subunit called α4, which is found only in sperm cells.
  — Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2018
• The final cells were large eggs with 23 unpaired chromosomes, ready to fuse with a sperm cell containing a complementary set.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 10 Feb. 2018
• Like other cells in the body, sperm cells are produced and developed with a specific objective or design.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
• If a sperm cell contains an X, the X-shredder enzyme slices it up, in effect aborting the cell, while sperm cells containing the Y chromosome can proceed to fertilization.
  — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2015
• To get an accurate picture of how a sperm cell moves, Gadêlha and his team vertically suspended sperm in a solution.
  — Courtney Sexton, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2020
• Some research has suggested that olfactory or hormone receptors in sperm cells may act like a GPS, guiding sperm toward the egg.
  — Randi Hutter Epstein, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• Your Choice is developing a pill meant to block sperm cell development, while Eppin’s method stops sperm from fertilizing an egg.
  — Wired, 24 July 2022
• To do this genetic trimming, the chromosomes in cells line up in pairs and exchange bits of genetic material before forming an egg or sperm cell.
  — National Geographic, 23 Mar. 2018
• Our diagnosis was azoospermia due to Sertoli cell-only syndrome (which means the testicles fail to produce living sperm cells).
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
• Chemical and genetic techniques can be used to get embryonic stem cells to turn into any cell type desired, including egg and sperm cells.
  — NBC News, 4 July 2018
• In addition, the sperm of marijuana smokers had erratic or unusual sperm cell size and shape, as well as sluggish swimmers.
  — Brendan Bures, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• In addition to experimenting with the hybrid and northern embryos, scientists are working to turn samples of the rhinos’ skin cells into egg and sperm cells.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 5 July 2018
• Technically, this made the babies fraternal triplets fertilized by one sperm cell.
  — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 14 Nov. 2016
• In mammals, including humans, fertilization occurs when a sperm cell swims toward and enters an egg cell.
  — Carla Bleiker, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024