How to Use gestation in a Sentence

gestation

noun

• The book has been in gestation for a long time.
• Most theater pieces benefit from more time in gestation; this one maybe had too long.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2021
• At the same time, the riskiest abortions are late-term, after 20 weeks of gestation.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• Shark pups like the ones found in the bay are usually born up to 12 months after gestation, and a litter can have up to 30 sharks.
  — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Nov. 2021
• If all goes well, four chambers and valves will form by the ninth or 10th week of pregnancy, and the heart will continue developing throughout gestation.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• More than 90 percent of women who seek the procedure in the U.S. do so within the first 13 weeks of gestation.
  — Mariana Lenharo, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2021
• The viability standard is now considered to be from 22 to 24 weeks of gestation.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021
• According to one study, once an ultrasound has confirmed an unborn child’s heartbeat at eight weeks’ gestation, the risk of miscarriage is only 3 percent.
  — Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 14 Feb. 2022
• More than 90 percent of abortions in the U.S. occur at or before 13 weeks of gestation, and most do so much earlier.
  — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2021
• Although Campbell would like to provide abortions up to 20 weeks gestation, the state’s legal limit, the clinic has stopped at 18 weeks for now.
  — Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022
• Under current laws, abortions in South Dakota are unlawful after 22 weeks of gestation.
  — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
• At about 22 months, the African elephant has the longest gestation period of any living mammal, and gives birth approximately every four years.
  — Reuters, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
• Dobbs is nominally about a Mississippi law that bans abortions in almost all circumstances after 15 weeks of gestation.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
• The drugs are approved for use by the FDA up to 10 weeks of gestation.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 23 Feb. 2022
• All those projects are in the very early stages of gestation.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2022
• The top new entry on the latest frame has had a 12-year gestation.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2023
• That’s because the brain and spine begin to form within the first four weeks of gestation.
  — Ana B. Ibarra, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2024
• Compared to the mad days of their gestation there are no mysteries of shock and awe, no strut and spunk.
  — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2024
• About half are with a pill, which can be taken up to 12 weeks gestation, and most are done at 15 weeks or less.
  — Bob Christie, ajc, 4 Oct. 2022
• The gestation of an elephant is nearly two years and that of a building even longer.
  — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2022
• Vets can count the fetuses with X-rays over 45 days of gestation.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024
• The telltale sign of La Niña's gestation is the spear of green that elongates and widens toward the west from the coast of South America.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2024
• The gestation of the project goes back over a decade starting with a 2012 crowdfunding effort.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
• The youngest of the zoo's herd of five, Zahara is 15 months into a 22-month gestation period, the zoo announced last week.
  — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
• Eighty-nine percent of the procedures were performed in the first 12 weeks of gestation.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
• McDonald's first promised in 2012 to phase out the use of the crates, also known as gestation stalls, for pregnant sows.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 21 Feb. 2022
• The fetuses in the new research were at 32 to 36 weeks’ gestation, researchers said.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022
• The gestation period of a gray squirrel is about 40 days.
  — Kelly McMasters, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2023
• Zahara, the youngest of the herd of five, is 15 months into a 22-month gestation period and is doing well, the zoo announced.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2023
• Females give birth to a single calf after a gestation period of about 13 months.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024