How to Use impregnate in a Sentence

impregnate

verb

• This way, a single dose of bull semen could be used to impregnate a whole lot of heifers.
  — Maureen O’Hagan, Quartz, 24 June 2019
• Farmers no longer believe, as the Greeks did, that the west wind somehow impregnates mares.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 3 June 2017
• Four of the guards were believed to have been impregnated by inmates.
  — Phil Davis, baltimoresun.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• The original plan had been to use donor sperm to impregnate Candice.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 15 June 2020
• In the books, another part of the prophecy suggests Ciri’s child will save and rule the world, so Emhyr plots to impregnate his daughter.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2021
• Female sea snipes, which impregnate the males, and leave them to stay home and rear the young, have higher testosterone levels than their mates.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Jan. 2018
• Lawrence sees her both as a victim of pop culture and a malleable young mind to impregnate with his extreme ideas.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
• In silence sits a 37-year-old house painter who raped and impregnated his own daughter.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 6 June 2019
• The other way is to impregnate the threads themselves with these kind of antimicrobial agents.
  — Kate Greene, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2013
• Tobala’s taste comes from the Copal trees in our region which impregnate and perfume the soil where Tobala agaves are grown.
  — Omaid Homayun, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• Instead, he is accused of using his own sperm to impregnate them.
  — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 28 Aug. 2017
• The king had seen Bathsheba bathing on a roof near his palace, summoned her to him, raped and impregnated her, and had her husband killed to cover his sins.
  — USA Today, 13 Feb. 2020
• Fired from his corporate job, a man agrees to impregnate his ex-fiancee and a slew of lesbians for money.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• As for how to get that impregnated-by-Ryan-Reynolds look — well, that's a tutorial Lively has yet to share.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 3 May 2019
• What makes Kevlar fabric so effective is that it's impregnated with resin to produce a shell, which is lighter and tougher than steel.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2019
• The beachy waves meet a guy with beachy waves who may or may not go on to impregnate them, leaving them wondering the identity of their future child for decades to come.
  — Gabriella Paiella, The Cut, 21 Dec. 2017
• In 2017, Cline avoided jail time for lying about using his own sperm to impregnate as many as dozens of women after telling them the donors were anonymous.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 22 May 2022
• In Nigeria, Boko Haram kidnapped girls as young as nine with the intent to impregnate them and breed a new generation of fighters.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 May 2019
• Your kindly old neighbors were secret Satanists ready to impregnate you with the devil’s spawn.
  — Thomas Mallon, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
• And none of these policies mention what lawmakers think should happen to the men who impregnate women.
  — Grant Hughes, Glamour, 13 July 2022
• The longest-serving is Mayra Veronica Figueroa, 33, a maid who was impregnated by rape and lost her baby near full term.
  — Juan Carlos, Marie Claire, 25 Apr. 2016
• Decades ago, Cline allegedly used his own sperm to impregnate his patients without telling them.
  — Stat Staff, STAT, 24 Dec. 2019
• But Jupiter was able to enter the tower and impregnate Danaë by transforming himself into a shower of gold coins.
  — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
• The Duke awakens and becomes an active participant, but the lack of consent at the start plus Daphne attempting to force him to impregnate her ...
  — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• Don't Breathe, Stephen Lang played a sightless veteran who terrorizes, and in one case attempts to impregnate, a trio of young burglars.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2021
• The aroma of vanilla, sugar and the toasted crust of their bolillos — a soft savory Mexican bread — impregnate the space.
  — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021
• The lawsuit claims that Mortimer's use of his own sperm to impregnate Ashby remained a secret until July.
  — Jacqueline Howard and Mayra Cuevas, CNN, 4 Apr. 2018
• In his take on the system, a central transmitter, hooked up to a big battery or to the mains, broadcasts the carrier wave, while the task of impregnating it with data is done by a chip on the sensor.
  — The Economist, 13 Sep. 2017
• As for the suggestion that Charlotte could have been impregnated by a shark, Ms. Lyons said that’s impossible.
  — Ben Finley, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2024
• Curra was impregnated using IVF, now scientists hope to use the same method to impregnate southern white rhinos with the embryos of the nearly extinct subspecies, northern white rhinos.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024