How to Use unhatched in a Sentence

unhatched

adjective

• These bugs and any unhatched eggs will all be killed with our first hard freeze.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2021
• The new species is thought to be the largest known creature to roost by sitting on its nest to care for its unhatched young.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 May 2017
• In Berkeley, the early bird gets Annie and her two unhatched eggs.
  — Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2022
• Now DC5, its as-yet-unhatched sibling, is getting ready to join the party by pipping its shell.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2017
• To destroy unhatched eggs, place items in which weevils are not visible in the freezer for four days.
  — Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2020
• The little sharks that hatch early often eat unhatched eggs, and sometimes even their hatched siblings.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2020
• Ryan Anthony Davis recorded two men who braved the elements and used umbrellas to shield a goose and her unhatched eggs.
  — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 10 May 2017
• The passenger, known as Frog Lady, is transporting her unhatched eggs back to her husband on Trask.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2020
• After the banding, Hennen said her biggest surprise was finding another, unhatched egg against the wall as the chicks were returned to their nest.
  — Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
• The nest also contained an unhatched egg, which may have attracted a hungry raccoon.
  — Katy Read, Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
• Their larvae grow inside the planthopper eggs where they're laid, consuming the unhatched planthoppers from the inside out.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2012
• The nest also contained an unhatched egg, which may have attracted a hungry carnivore.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 6 July 2021
• The mass nesting event, called an arribada, is overseen by local residents, many of whom can legally harvest and sell a portion of unhatched eggs.
  — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 25 Nov. 2019
• Water released through Glen Canyon Dam can cause river temperatures to plummet to an average of 46 degrees, leaving chub eggs to freeze and the unhatched fish to perish.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 22 Jan. 2020
• Almost fully intact circular outline of egg possibly indicating it to be unhatched and no loose eggshells are found in the clutch P6.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2023
• The plot, driven by Harley’s hyperactive narration, zigzags and hopscotches across time and space to fill in the back stories of her frenemies, the as-yet-unhatched predatory birds who get top billing.
  — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
• Looking at two adjacent residences, the researchers found bones from both juvenile and adult toms, eight unhatched eggs, multiple recently hatched chicks and at least one hen kept to lay eggs.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2016
• My favorite of the many arcs in The Mandalorian involves a froglike creature carrying her unhatched eggs to another planet.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 June 2021
• These heat-calls slow down the growth of the unhatched new generation, who also becomes more tolerant to high temperatures in comparison to their parents.
  — Popular Science, 23 Nov. 2020
• But instead of being surrounded by a noisy flock of parents, atop every nest was either a single unhatched egg or a single newborn chick, quietly struggling in discomfort.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
• In addition, embryos in unhatched eggs showed signs of genetic mutations, and suffered deformities when hatched.
  — John D'anna, The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2020
• Evolutionary biologists think that spiders originally wove webs to protect their unhatched young.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2020
• These findings, newly detailed in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, suggest that unhatched embryos are not only highly attuned to danger, but also capable of sharing this information with nestmates.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 23 July 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024