How to Use gonad in a Sentence

gonad

noun

• Last week, one of them took a field goal to the gonads and barely flinched.
  — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• The spiders’ gonads are in their legs — and so are their guts.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 28 May 2018
• The one positive is that purple urchins have fleshy gonads known to sushi lovers as uni.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• After the spring, their male gonads age and drop off in a single molt and an ovary develops.
  — Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, 28 June 2019
• Seventy days later, Dykman dissected the pink snail and found the worms alive and well in the snail’s gonad.
  — Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
• At age 16, Hann had surgery to remove her gonads, the tissue that becomes ovaries or testicles.
  — Asher Fogle, Good Housekeeping, 21 Oct. 2016
• Pearlfish go inside the sea cucumbers’ butt and eat their gonads.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 31 Mar. 2018
• That thing sticking out between the legs in the photo above is the beak; immature planthoppers don’t have gonads yet.
  — Gwen Pearson, WIRED, 9 June 2014
• Adult men can choose to freeze their sperm before starting treatments that have the potential to damage their gonads.
  — National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2019
• In the past, researchers cut open juvenile turtles to inspect their gonads.
  — Ben Guarino, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2018
• The birds might also feed selectively on certain parts of jellies, like their gonads, which are rich in fats and proteins.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
• An oyster’s gonad — its largest organ — makes up 30 to 40 percent of its body mass when fully developed.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 5 May 2017
• The signal is read by cells that go on to form the animal's gonads, which go on to produce hormones that direct the turtle's development.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Apr. 2020
• The body and brain swap information via the chemicals released by endocrine organs like the thyroid and gonads, as well as parts of the immune system.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2019
• But as seasons change, warming water may induce oysters to spawn, releasing the contents of their gonads.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 5 May 2017
• On the other hand, the uni shooter (a gonad bathed in yuzu), sourced from other waters, was fine though not particularly memorable.
  — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 3 May 2018
• A study based on penguin cams released last year revealed the penguins targeted jellyfish with large gonads while hunting.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 Aug. 2017
• The Verge spoke with Rabaiotti, Caruso, and Kocak on a conference call about fart-catching devices and gonad-eating parasites.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 31 Mar. 2018
• If your level is low enough to warrant more aggressive treatment, your doctor can prescribe a drug that causes your pituitary to tell your gonads to make more testosterone.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Men's Health, 24 Feb. 2023
• And most purple urchins aren’t marketable because their only edible parts, their gonads, are considered too small.
  — Maurice Roper, National Geographic, 30 Apr. 2020
• Even so, the researchers note that reduced food supplies don’t stop these resourceful creatures, which can regrow their gonads once food availability increases.
  — Rachel Riederer, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
• Prior studies by Dhillo of healthy men with no libido problems found giving them kisspeptin boosted levels of testosterone and luteinizing hormone, which is important for gonad function.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
• Credit where credit is due: Evolution has invented a galaxy of clever adaptations, from fish that swim up sea cucumber butts and eat their gonads, to parasites that mind-control their hosts in wildly complex ways.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 4 July 2019
• Early during an embryo’s development, the germ cells — which are basically the cellular grandparents or great grandparents of sperm — travel to the nascent gonads.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 26 Apr. 2018
• Various hypotheses have been proposed, including the idea that dangling gonads are a way to signal virility and good health, but none are satisfactory.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2018
• But the urchins living in barren environments have little to eat so their insides, including their prized golden gonads, are shriveled and commercially worthless.
  — Smithsonian, 21 Sep. 2019

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