How to Use in utero in a Sentence

in utero

adverb or adjective

• The doctor discovered the virus had passed to the fetus in utero.
  — Anne Thompson, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2024
• Arizona wants to lead a team in performing brain surgery on the fetus while in utero.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
• However, there are variations to the fetal position in utero that can affect delivery.
  — Brandi Jones, Verywell Health, 5 Aug. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024