How to Use copulate in a Sentence

copulate

verb

• Some animals have complex mating rituals before they copulate.
• The short answer is that the Copenhagen Zoo has a no-contraceptives policy (and animals like to copulate).
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2014
• In some species, males may even refuse to copulate with certain females.
  — Zuleyma Tang-Martinez, Smithsonian, 24 Jan. 2017
• In some species, males may even refuse to copulate with certain females.
  — Zuleyma Tang-Martinez, Smithsonian, 24 Jan. 2017
• A few weeks ago the pair, named Monty and Rose, began copulating, said Giometti.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2019
• Even with the copulating couple caught on camera, the attention is all on the child's response to the spectacle.
  — Marlisse Cepeda, Woman's Day, 26 Jan. 2015
• Or a wet-denim-fetish site, where the turn-on seems to be jumping into a pool or showering with jeans on, then copulating.
  — Lucas Peterson, GQ, 22 May 2017
• In one instance, he is accused of using a trip to a sporting event to rape and forcibly orally copulate a student-athlete.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• The males thrash around trying to copulate, covering themselves with pollen.
  — Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019
• Males will try to copulate not only with females, but also other males.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 29 June 2019
• As a couple, we were finished, though still copulating.
  — Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
• The notorious sculpture depicts Pan, rustic god of the wild, copulating with a she-goat.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
• Out of 52 pairings of mice, there were no pregnancies among mice that copulated within the 2.5-hour window, Balbach said.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2023
• These tiny guys copulate for up to 14 hours at a time, during which frenzied marsupial males' levels of testosterone and stress hormones skyrocket.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2013
• In two reported cases, females feasted on birds while copulating with males.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
• Under pressure to copulate quickly, these males have developed gonopodia with longer tips that are more densely covered in bony structures—perhaps for gripping.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 25 Aug. 2015
• In some species males increase their reproductive success by forcing females to copulate with them, usually by grasping the female or pinning her to the ground to prevent her from escaping.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2016
• These include someone washing a cucumber, copulating wind-up toy rabbits, a phallic fungus, a beaver, the Washington Monument, the pop of a champagne cork, and the sensuous blossoming of a flower.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2019
• Danish challengers, asked to make a dessert fit for a bachelor party, offered buttercream buttocks and fondant figures copulating under the covers.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• In the communal web, female Philoponella prominens rarely leave, whereas their male counterparts venture to other webs to mate and can copulate with a female spider up to six times before moving onto another one, Zhang said.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
• Modern zoologists, however, have investigated why males would copulate when there was obviously no chance of reproduction.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2012

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024