How to Use in utero in a Sentence

in utero

adverb or adjective

• Is the killer one of the children that was shown in utero to have the psychopath gene?
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
• The killings can even affect the health of their infants in utero.
  — Wired, 6 Dec. 2019
• The odds were small for both groups — 6.3% for those exposed in utero and 3% for those who weren’t.
  — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
• The voice is really the first thing that a baby hears in utero.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 26 Mar. 2018
• The result is a living piece of work, one that was given the space to evolve in utero.
  — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2019
• But soon after, the doctors came to us and said Katie had suffered a stroke in utero.
  — Richard Laver, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
• The couple also had a son, Jake, who was infected with the virus in utero.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 29 Nov. 2019
• In one of the pregnancies in the study, the fetus was diagnosed with a heart defect in utero.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• In contrast to the in utero years needed by a mammoth, the thylacine may only need a few weeks.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2022
• And what of the mamas, those wanting to simply protect their babies in utero and in arms.
  — Rachel Hardeman, Star Tribune, 24 May 2021
• The baby was the first and only case that had ever been diagnosed in utero.
  — Patricia Lockwood, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• Babies grow much faster in their first year of life than at any other time, except in utero.
  — Elizabeth Florio, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023
• After all, this is the man who tried to kill the twins in utero and did kill their biological mom.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2020
• Bizarrely, most of the embryo’s long stint in utero is spent barely doing anything at all.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2023
• Amy Martin was first introduced to the Grand Canyon in utero, when her mother hiked down to the bottom.
  — Outside Online, 21 May 2020
• Gideon and his team started planning the separation surgery while the twins were still in utero.
  — NBC News, 6 Sep. 2021
• The Afghanistan war, now in its 18th year, has been going on for so long that some of those volunteering to fight it were still in utero...
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2019
• When they’re born, panda cubs are 1/900 the size of the mother, making detection in utero quite the challenge.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
• Some species manage to give birth to live young, yet the mother contributes little to no food in utero.
  — Jake Buehler, National Geographic, 8 June 2020
• The location was all the more poignant as JJ's twin brother, Colt, died in utero, and Warriner got the sad news while at the same hospital.
  — Rachel Morris, Woman's Day, 12 Nov. 2014
• The massive loss of oocytes in utero occurs throughout much of the animal kingdom.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022
• The defects, according to the hospital, may be the result of a twin that failed to separate while in utero.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2021
• Some specialties emerge in utero, and some split and form afterward.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Dec. 2020
• His younger sister, 6-year-old Anna, was in utero at the time of Joey's diagnosis.
  — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2019
• The virus in the mother’s blood can pass through the placenta and infect the developing baby in utero.
  — Essence, 19 July 2022
• The path of Mike Budenholzer's life was determined for him in utero.
  — Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2021
• Of those children, 655 were exposed to cannabis while in utero, according to statements from the mothers.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 23 Sep. 2020
• Or maybe it was transferred in utero, or inherited in their DNA?
  — Katherine D. Kinzler, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2020
• There is still amniotic fluid surrounding your baby, as well as all the layers of your body, so the sounds heard in utero are muffled because there is no air to carry the sound.
  — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 29 July 2024
• One child died in utero in January 2015, while her twin brother will need lifelong medical care after sustaining a brain injury, according to the lawsuit.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2024

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024