How to Use transplant in a Sentence
- The group transplanted the beavers to another part of the state.
- The bush was transplanted to a different part of the garden.
- She carefully transplanted the seedlings.
- Doctors transplanted one of his kidneys into his sister.
- She is a New Yorker who recently transplanted to the West Coast.
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When the corals are six to nine months old, divers transplant them to wild reefs.
— Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2020 -
Dig plugs from the thick areas and transplant them into the thin spots.
— Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Jan. 2022 -
Be ready to transplant a ponytail as the base swells and starts to fill the container.
— Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2023 -
Place it in a sunny spot and watch the roots start to grow, then transplant it into soil in a pot.
— Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2020 -
Allow the seedlings to produce the first set of true leaves and then transplant each to a section of a cell pack or small pot.
— Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2023 -
In six or eight weeks, the seedlings will be large enough to transplant into your garden, just as the soil warms up.
— Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021 -
By the end of the week, your plants should be acclimated and ready to be transplanted.
— Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Mar. 2023 -
Once the roots are there, transplant them into your garden.
— Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Dec. 2022 -
The window to transplant his liver was eight to 12 hours after his death.
— Eryn Mathewson, CNN, 4 July 2022 -
When a kidney or lung fails, the surgeon gets paid to transplant an organ.
— Robert Pearl, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022 -
The kidney transplanted in Alabama worked for the seven-day length of the study.
— Amy Yurkanin | Ayurkanin@al.com, al, 17 Aug. 2023 -
To transplant, use a trowel or other tool to make holes large enough to plant into.
— oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2023 -
Douglas-fir saplings of this size, transplanted from the wild often do not do well.
— oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2020 -
When the seedling has outgrown its first pot, transplant it into a pot one size larger.
— Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2023 -
When the seedlings are 4-6 inches tall, transplant them to small containers or rows in a garden.
— Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 1 May 2021 -
Then transplant outdoors when all danger of frost has passed.
— Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2023 -
If their leaves are dying back now, pull them or cut them off, then dig, divide and transplant the clump.
— oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2020 -
Once your seedlings have a few sets of leaves, harden them off and transplant them outside after the last sign of frost in your region.
— Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Feb. 2023 -
This would seem to suggest that all Israeli Jews be transplanted to the United States.
— Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023 -
The delicate surgery required to transplant a hand is just the start of the process; the recipient must then relearn how to use it.
— Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2020 -
Instead of transplanting the pig liver into the body, the researchers kept the organ in a machine next to it.
— Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2024 -
The most common types of spades are digging, transplanting, and border spades.
— Pamela Porter, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Aug. 2023 -
The hotbed of Oregon turkey hunting is in the southwest, where most of the turkeys are transplanted Rios.
— The Editors, Field & Stream, 24 Feb. 2020 -
Once the plant begins to outgrow the shell, crack the bottom and transplant the shell directly into a garden pot.
— Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2024 -
This extends the window in which organs can be transplanted, but only briefly.
— Ted Alcorn, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
- He is going to need a liver transplant.
- The patient's body rejected the transplant.
- The doctors are trying to keep him alive until a liver can be found for transplant.
- The heart transplant was successful.
- She received a bone marrow transplant from an unknown donor.
- She's a Southern transplant who now lives in New York.
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The first partial face transplant was performed in 2005 in France.
— Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2023 -
The second patient, a man between ages 60 and 69, received a left lung transplant on the same day and from the same donor.
— Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2023 -
Some have met bad ends, including one that fell off a truck and one that died of transplant shock.
— Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023 -
Prayers for the big guy here as Scott Pollard is about to undergo a heart transplant.
— Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 17 Feb. 2024 -
For one, patients need to find a match and secondly, their body has to accept the transplant.
— Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 11 Dec. 2023 -
But her husband reached out to Northwestern Medicine about the option of a transplant.
— Kyla Russell, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023 -
The new treatments are technically not a cure in the same way a bone marrow transplant would be.
— Dr. Darien Sutton-Ramsey, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023 -
Leon died months after joining the waitlist for a lung transplant.
— Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023 -
Raphaelle Pereira, 22, had been waiting for years for a lung transplant in the Brazilian city of Curitiba.
— Rebecca Robbins, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023 -
Five months after the transplant, the pair conquered a half-marathon together.
— BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023 -
The damage was so severe that a standard corneal transplant would not resolve it.
— Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 18 Aug. 2023 -
The pig used for Faucette’s transplant had a total of 10 genetic edits.
— WIRED, 25 Sep. 2023 -
However, the fecal transplant may affect the set point.
— Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2023 -
Plants should be spaced about 2 feet apart and harvests can begin about 90 days after transplant.
— Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2024 -
Tonya Ingram, a poet and health activist, was among those who died waiting for a transplant.
— Sheryl Gay Stolberg, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023 -
To count under the metric, a donor must have an organ used for transplant or for pancreas research.
— Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023 -
These days, the digit is sometimes used as a transplant replacement for people who have lost a thumb.
— Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2023 -
The city has seen an influx of white transplants to new developments on tracts of farmland.
— Robert Gebeloff, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023 -
The people who replaced them, meanwhile, were transplants, less sprung from the soil than laid like sod over Indigenous lands.
— Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023 -
Since then, two opportunities for a heart transplant in Austin have come and gone.
— Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023 -
In fact, organ transplant is a huge health inequity issue.
— Doris Taylor, Fortune Well, 11 Aug. 2023 -
The words of doctors, patients and transplant experts should dispel any doubt that the tests are a critical part of patient care.
— The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2023 -
Bobby Simone’s health struggles, first with a heart transplant, then with a brain infection that robbed Bobby’s chances for recovery.
— Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024 -
Try digging a 6 inch trench and burying ⅔ of transplant on their side rather than into a deep horizontal hole—this will encourage vertical root growth and result in stronger, higher-producing plants.
— Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
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