How to Use fertilized in a Sentence

fertilized

adjective

• By a vote of 8 to 1, the court held that a fertilized egg outside the womb is a person.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
• Plant in full sun with fertilized soil for the best results.
  — Kate McGregor, ELLE Decor, 20 Jan. 2023
• The fertilized egg then evolves into a float that returns to the surface and forms another colony.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
• The condition, when a fertilized egg grows outside the uterus, is rare but can be life-threatening.
  — Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2024
• The fertilized egg would need to return to Earth for development.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2023
• Fibroids in the lining of the uterus can also prevent a fertilized egg from implanting.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Glamour, 5 July 2023
• In the cells of every female human being, there are two X chromosomes and no Y. A fertilized egg that has two Xs will grow into a girl.
  — Outside Online, 31 July 2024
• Food scientists sample stem cells from a fertilized chicken egg and then test the cells for resilience, taste, and the ability to divide and create more cells.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 30 June 2023
• Scientists say that a single zooid (formed from a single fertilized zygote) starts the development of a siphonophore colony through the process of budding.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
• Previously, when the zoo found itself with more fertilized eggs than surrogate adults available, staff raised the young birds by hand.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024
• The set includes a total of 32 pieces, including nine reusable pots, three pre-fertilized soil discs, three drip trays, nine plant markets, and a planting guide.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2023
• This includes an ectopic pregnancy, which occurs when a fertilized egg implants and grows outside the uterus.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 13 June 2022
• Bears mate in springtime, but the fertilized egg remains a microscopic blastocyst until late fall when the sow dens up for winter.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2022
• An ectopic pregnancy, when a fertilized egg attaches outside of the uterus, is not viable.
  — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 14 July 2022
• To make raw material for an influenza vaccine, virus is grown in millions of fertilized eggs.
  — Arthur Allen, CBS News, 29 May 2024
• This is not the same thing as Plan B or other morning-after pills, which forestalls a pregnancy by preventing the egg from being released by the ovary or a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterus.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 21 July 2022
• An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg implants and grows outside the uterus, most often in the fallopian tube.
  — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 29 June 2023
• Previously, the product label had said the pill might prevent a fertilized egg from implanting.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
• Inside, a single plant gets artificial light and a steady supply of fertilized water.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2022
• Similar to seahorses and pipefishes, the males carry around fertilized eggs.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2022
• An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus.
  — Amy Alspaugh, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
• Cultivated products are grown in steel tanks using cells from a living animal, a fertilized egg or a storage bank.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 31 May 2024
• Cultivated products are grown in steel tanks using cells from a living animal, a fertilized egg, or a storage bank.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2024
• But biologists don’t believe that aging and death are programmed in the sense that a fertilized egg is programmed to develop into a human being.
  — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
• But scientific evidence has never shown that Plan B affects a fertilized egg’s ability to attach to the uterus.
  — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
• Ectopic pregnancies occur when a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 10 May 2022
• For both menstrual mood disorders, symptoms surface during the luteal phase, when the hormones estrogen and progesterone increase in the body to thicken the lining of the uterus, then decline if there’s no fertilized egg present.
  — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 26 Feb. 2024
• When culturing a fertilized egg into an embryo, it is grown in a very small droplet of culture media, which helps the embryo develop before it is used for implantation.
  — Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 17 Jan. 2024
• Balut is prepared by taking a fertilized egg, usually duck or sometimes chicken, allowing the egg to develop for anywhere from 16 to 20 days, and boiling it with the meat inside.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
• The state Supreme Court agreed, ruling that the plaintiffs could pursue a wrongful death claim on behalf of an embryo, a fertilized egg that has grown for five or six days before being implanted in a patient or stored in tanks of liquid nitrogen.
  — Sarah Kliff, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024