How to Use fertilization in a Sentence

fertilization

noun

• And this was just the first fertilization of the season.
  — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
• The fertilization helps green up the lawn as long as the roots and blades have developed.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 6 May 2022
• That cross-fertilization may just need a little longer to come to fruition.
  — Mat Ombler, Wired, 4 Nov. 2021
• Haas gave birth to a boy through in vitro fertilization in 2008.
  — Arpan Lobo, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2023
• The law bans nearly all abortions at the time of fertilization.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2022
• Here are his nine easy-to-follow rules for lawn fertilization.
  — Brett Martin, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2023
• The following embryos show the morning and evening of the third day after fertilization, the fifth day, and the ninth day, shortly before the egg hatched.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2020
• The couple is trying to have a baby and needs to rely on in-vitro fertilization to do so.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2023
• When April hits and spawning season begins the milt is shipped back here to begin the fertilization process.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 27 Sep. 2022
• Kaine is said to be bringing Elizabeth Carr, the first person in the US to be born via in vitro fertilization, as his guest.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2024
• The fourth type, the common fig, is parthenocarpic, meaning the fruit forms without fertilization.
  — oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2021
• The timing of fertilization should be split three times per year, starting in early spring (~late April), then mid-May, and lastly in mid-June.
  — oregonlive, 4 Mar. 2023
• After both sperm and egg retrieval, fertilization occurs, the goal of which is a healthy embryo.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 6 May 2022
• Then there is Trump’s promise to make in vitro fertilization (IVF) free.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• In the wild, fertilization happens as the eggs and sperm from different colonies meet each other in the water column.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Dec. 2021
• To help encourage more of that sperm to be used for fertilization instead of food, the sperm-donor snail has another trick up its sleeve.
  — Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
• Johnson said Griner was the one who pushed to have two babies, even though the pair were warned by doctors about higher health risks during the fertilization process.
  — The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2022
• Texas bans all abortions at the moment of fertilization with a few narrow exceptions for health or life of the mother.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 11 Dec. 2023
• The researchers complete the fertilization in the lab, then transplant larvae onto needy reefs.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
• Then, when eggs are collected from the reef, the sperm can be thawed and used in concentrations that make fertilization most likely.
  — Alex Riley, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022
• The solution, weak enough to avoid harming the prized plant, could help dissolve the hard exteriors of pollen grains to aid fertilization.
  — Bradley White, National Geographic, 24 Dec. 2019
• The team plans to propose a small and carefully controlled experiment to test the effects of iron fertilization on the whales’ food webs.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2021
• In fact, studies have shown that all Plan B does is work to prevent ovulation and, as a result, fertilization.
  — Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com, 25 June 2021
• Pampas grass is easy to grow, and plants rarely need watering or fertilization.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2023
• If fertilization happens, the egg will continue its journey to the uterus and can implant on that lining.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 28 June 2018
• Luckily, if that's your choice, science is on your side through a process called in vitro fertilization (IVF).
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• Paris went through a journey with in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 25 Jan. 2023
• The hummingbird gets a tasty treat, and, in the process, carries pollen from one flower to the next, promoting plant fertilization and seed production.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2021
• She’s also portrayed Trump as opposed to in vitro fertilization and cast herself as the candidate of freedom.
  — Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Oct. 2024
• The luteal phase occurs from days 15 to 28 when the follicle that released the egg increases progesterone levels for pregnancy or degrades if fertilization does not occur.
  — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Jan 2025