How to Use incubation in a Sentence

incubation

noun

• The bald eagles will take turns in the incubation of the egg.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
• The male doesn't help with incubation but guards the nest and chicks.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2018
• Also, check out some snaps of the band from the incubation stage.
  — Nick Williams, Billboard, 6 June 2019
• The sun was bright, like the incubation lamps farmers used to keep young chicks alive.
  — Hazlitt, 14 Feb. 2024
• The female lays a clutch of one to three eggs, with incubation lasting 34 to 36 days.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2023
• The female will lay up to six eggs, and during incubation, the male bird will bring food to the female.
  — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2017
• Stop by the nursery on your right to see some native plants in incubation.
  — Charles Fleming, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
• Hatch dates are based on the average of 35 days of incubation.
  — cleveland, 14 Mar. 2020
• The team returned the cells to the patients’ bloodstream after 24 hours of incubation.
  — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 21 Dec. 2022
• As of early March, the nest held two eagle eggs, with the adult birds trading incubation shifts.
  — Val Cunningham Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021
• In female eggs, the hole is sealed with medical tape, and the egg is returned to incubation.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 14 Aug. 2019
• Trumpeter swan eggs hatch after close to 35 days of incubation, and the cygnets swim away with their parents.
  — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
• The incubation time for E. coli is most commonly three to four days.
  — Elizabeth Bacharach, Women's Health, 29 Aug. 2023
• And hatcheries must pay for 9 days of incubation costs.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 14 Aug. 2019
• Four times a day, two eggs from each clutch were placed inside an incubation chamber for one hour.
  — Jennifer Leman, Scientific American, 22 July 2019
• The dad stands on ice day and night during the brutal winter months, not eating for the duration of the egg’s incubation.
  — Ben Guarino, Popular Science, 13 June 2024
• All of them have been barred from attending school and will have to stay home until April 18, the end of the incubation period, Good said.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 7 Apr. 2017
• Those who were in close contact will be asked to quarantine in their own rooms for the full 14-day incubation window.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2020
• Since founding EvoNexus in 2010, Moore has never joined the board of a company still in its incubation.
  — Brittany Meiling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2019
• During incubation and early life, the chicks were exposed to the sound of motor engines and the human voice, then were trained to follow the pilot — first on foot, then in the air.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2022
• Still, for that to work, the sensitivity needs to increase to the point where incubation is not required.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
• Wanner said the eggs are about halfway through their incubation.
  — David Williams, CNN, 11 Sep. 2020
• Place the incubation vessel in cold water (fill the sink with cold tap water, or fill a bowl with ice water) until the yogurt is cool.
  — cleveland, 30 June 2020
• The current rough estimate for the incubation time for the virus—that is, from the time of exposure to the development of symptoms—is two weeks.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2020
• But those efforts change nothing if an athlete shows up during the incubation phase of the virus, which the South African team members appear to have done.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 July 2021
• There’s no retail strip awaiting incubation on that part of Stony.
  — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 22 Mar. 2018
• Once laid, some eggs are sent away for incubation and replaced by smart fakes, which wiggle and cheep so that the mother is primed for her hatchling’s return.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• The state has to go two full incubation periods, or 42 days, with no positive tests to be declared measles-free.
  — Sophie Carson, Twin Cities, 31 May 2017
• More than half the businesses in our incubation program and kitchen are owned by people of color.
  — Samantha Bakall, OregonLive.com, 6 June 2017
• During the show’s incubation, the cultural debate about who has the right to depict which kinds of characters has only intensified.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 30 May 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024