How to Use incubate in a Sentence

incubate

verb

• The female bird incubates the eggs.
• The cultures must incubate for five more days.
• The virus will incubate in the body for several days before the patient experiences any symptoms.
• Researchers incubated the cells in the laboratory.
• The eggs incubate for 60 days and crack open in the fourth week of January.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2024
• The two incubated three eggs on top of the library in 2017.
  — Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• The eggs then incubate in warm sand for roughly 60 days, the agency says.
  — Fox News, 22 July 2022
• The process of making a batch from scratch takes this chef 24 hours, though most of that time is spent incubating the cheese.
  — Jean Trinh, Los Angeles Magazine, 26 Mar. 2018
• Elmer and Lima were given a chance to incubate the egg.
  — NBC News, 2 Feb. 2022
• To make the xenobots, the researchers scraped living stem cells from frog embryos and left them to incubate.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 29 Nov. 2021
• The protocol required at least two eggs to be left in the nests for the local birds to incubate.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2021
• After incubating the egg for five months, the pup hatched.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023
• The birds’ eggs are the largest of any species in proportion to their body size; females incubate their eggs for 75 to 90 days.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2021
• For instance, some fish, like lake whitefish, spawn in the fall in nearshore areas of the lakes where the eggs incubate over the winter.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
• For instance, some fish, like lake whitefish, spawn in the fall in nearshore areas of the lakes where the eggs incubate over the winter.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
• The tech rise of Guadalajara had taken decades to incubate.
  — Andrew Selee, Smithsonian, 13 June 2018
• Netflix was the first app available on Roku and helped incubate the business.
  — Patience Haggin, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2020
• The chefs and sous chefs of shuttered restaurants have taken this year to incubate new ideas.
  — Erik Oberholtzer, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2021
• Taking that time to incubate yourself to be ready for this world.
  — Essence, 1 Nov. 2023
• Once transmitted, the virus incubates for two to 21 days.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 31 Oct. 2017
• The male and female are taking turns and sometimes squabbling over who will incubate the eggs.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2021
• The flip side: often the USTA has put in years of work (and years of financing) to incubate careers.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 27 June 2018
• Even five minutes off the nest can doom incubating eggs or chicks.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 15 Feb. 2018
• The hens will eventually incubate their four eggs and raise young within 150 yards of the singing grounds.
  — Tom Fegely, Field & Stream, 13 Apr. 2020
• So if the test was done when the infection was still incubating, the test may turn out to be negative.
  — Catherine Ho, SFChronicle.com, 17 Apr. 2020
• Male and female plovers take turns incubating their eggs, and this pair’s flawless changing of the guard is a healthy sign.
  — Washington Post, 17 June 2019
• The female often incubates the eggs, while the male usually secures the food.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
• The baby emerges from an egg incubated in its mother’s pouch for about 10 days.
  — Danielle Beurteaux, National Geographic, 26 Sep. 2019
• The virus can incubate for days before a test will uncover it.
  — Calvin Woodward and Jill Colvin, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• Another 200 people will be part of companies Lilly will incubate.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024