How to Use gestate in a Sentence

gestate

verb

• And some ideas have to sit up here (pointing to the head) for a while to gestate and become ready and right.
  — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• The project gestated for a couple of years, with the major work taking place since last fall.
  — Lyz Lenz, Longreads, 18 May 2017
• The biggest space missions gestate for the longest time.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 11 June 2021
• That is, the right enjoyed by women is a right to stop gestating, not a right to end the existence of the fetus.
  — Margot Cleveland, National Review, 31 July 2017
• The long-gestating Sweet Valley High movie has moved on to its third writer.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 8 July 2019
• So are there any other songs from the album that have been gestating for some time, and why did now seem the time to release them?
  — Bryan Kress, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2018
• That would be the end of the line for that mother, her gestating calf and ultimately the species itself.
  — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
• The two-bedroom house took two years to build, but some of its elements have been gestating for decades.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2020
• The mothers will gestate their young for 13 months and the calf typically stays with its mother for up to two years.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 5 Aug. 2023
• Myriad life forms may gestate in a womb or sprout in soil, hatch from an egg or germinate in a corpse.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 12 May 2023
• Also in the hopper is the long-gestating onscreen adaptation of the Half-Life video games.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2017
• The album has been gestating for years, its release delayed more than once.
  — Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• The idea for An Inconvenient Sequel was gestating for years before the film came to fruition.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2018
• There are signs Iweala knew his long-gestating novel had problems.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
• After 11 to 12 months gestating, sloths enter this world with their eyes open, all their teeth intact, and their claws fully grown.
  — Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 8 Nov. 2018
• The group played unreleased tracks from its long-gestating next album, [USA].
  — Mosi Reeves, Billboard, 17 June 2019
• The news that twins were gestating inside me had taken me weeks to absorb, and the sudden shift in my fate was disorienting.
  — Daniela Blei, The Cut, 23 Apr. 2018
• Babies who gestated near a well had a reliably lower birth weight than their siblings who were not exposed to the well.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2017
• In the meantime, Reilly’s plan to re-examine—and perhaps restrict—the use of climate models will have had a chance to gestate further.
  — Adam Federman, Wired, 15 Sep. 2020
• That explains how a woman in Bangladesh gave birth to one baby and then had twins, who were gestating in her other uterus, nearly a month later.
  — Katherine Hobson, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
• These animals gestate for about two weeks before giving birth to even smaller, live young.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Jan. 2023
• African elephants, for example, already gestate for about two years—during which much can go wrong.
  — Riley Black, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
• One baby that would stand out at the Met Gala was the fetus currently gestating inside Cardi.
  — New York Times, 8 May 2018
• Plays usually gestate slowly, so even the most topical ones will make references that are years out of date.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2021
• The titular aliens - creatures that gestated inside humans to burst out of their victims' chests - were truly the stuff of nightmares.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 17 May 2017
• In the decades since its release, the ideas gestated have been poorly nurtured, limiting the story’s growth while testing our patience.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
• Before that plotline has time to gestate, a massive storm front sweeps through the valley while Amine and his folks are out on a visit, leaving Itto to fend for herself as things start to fall apart.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2023
• Last week, the New York Times officially rolled out its stand-alone audio app, which had been gestating in development for a good long while.
  — Vulture, 24 May 2023
• And gestating females from the third generation were exposed to the pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, also known as DDT.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 2 Feb. 2024
• The ruling, treating an embryo the same as a child or gestating fetus under the wrongful death statute, raised concerns about civil liabilities for clinics.
  — Kim Chandler, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024