How to Use gestation in a Sentence

gestation

noun

• The book has been in gestation for a long time.
• 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
• At the end of four months—the normal gestation period for the species—Lola gave birth to the twin tamarins.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2021
• 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 percentage of infants born at less than 37 weeks of gestation inched up for the fifth year in a row, to more than 10%.
  — Mike Stobbe, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2020
• At five-and-a-half months’ gestation, the fetus is the size of a papaya and has begun to grow eyebrows and hair.
  — Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 10 Nov. 2020
• The gestation of an elephant is nearly two years and that of a building even longer.
  — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2022
• At the same time, the riskiest abortions are late-term, after 20 weeks of gestation.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 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
• Five to seven pups are born in April after 60 to 63 days gestation.
  — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• That law, signed by Gov. Doug Ducey this year, bans most abortions after 15 weeks of gestation.
  — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
• Most women have abortions early on, in the first trimester of gestation.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
• That’s when the egg adheres to her uterine wall for a brief gestation before cubs weighing less than a pound are born.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2022
• Passed in May, the ban prohibits all abortions in Texas after about six weeks' gestation.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2021
• Abortions are legal up to 15 weeks' gestation in Arizona.
  — Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
• But the timing – four, nine and 10 months after the Dobbs decision – line up with about the time that congenital anomalies can be identified in the fetus and a full-length gestation term.
  — Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024