How to Use mate in a Sentence

mate

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• Twenty of the birds had been paired up to mate that year.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
• These birds just show up for mating in the spring and summer.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2023
• Itani said the female was from the Great Plains, and thus unlikely to stay and mate.
  — Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2024
• Once a brood climbs out of the ground, the cicadas crawl up trees to mate, and the females lay eggs in tree branches.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2024
• This means the bears are active year-round and able to mate and reproduce at any time.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• Each spring, salmon migrate upstream from the ocean to the chilly headwaters of rivers to mate.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2023
• The noise attracts other males, who think there is a female ready to mate.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
• The noise attracts other males, who think there is a female ready to mate.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024
• The brawny mill is mated to a bespoke six-speed manual for the first time.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 11 July 2023
• That same spring, Fe mated with an unnamed male and hatched her 40th chick.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
• There, the dragonflies will mate and females will lay their eggs before the end of their life.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2023
• Of course, before these babies are born, the creatures must mate.
  — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• Young male macaques have been seen clinging to female deer and trying to mate with them.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2023
• Parasites travel through the body into a vein in the intestines to mate and lay eggs.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2024
• Four of the females refused to mate; the other two mated but could not conceive.
  — Bydavid Grimm, science.org, 6 June 2023
• Of the six cats that received the treatment, two mated with males, per the New York Times, but none became pregnant.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2023
• Each spring — or summer, in this case — the crickets born that year will mate and lay a new generation of eggs in the soil.
  — Rio Yamat, Fortune, 20 June 2023
• And above all, the structures provide a safe place for breeding penguins to mate and protect their eggs.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Feb. 2023
• The insects will have enough time to get used to their new home and then hopefully mate and burrow down to suckle at the roots of hazel trees.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 31 May 2024
• These insects will mate and chorus for at least six weeks before the 17-year cycle starts again.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2024
• The museum also said the sawfish caught last month had mating scars on its fins and sides.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 11 July 2023
• The brawny mill is mated to a tandem middle axle gearbox that routes power to all six wheels.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2024
• Cicadas are winged insects with red eyes that spend most of their lives underground, emerge to mate, and then die.
  — Zach Tuggle, The Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2024
• The mule is a hybrid, produced by mating a male donkey, or jack, with a lady horse.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
• Larvae then transform into pupae, which swim to the surface and emerge as adult midges ready to mate.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2024
• Starting in late April, two major broods of cicadas that show up on 13- and 17-year cycles will crawl out of the soil and head to treetops to sing and mate.
  — Keely Brewer, The Daily Memphian, and Brittney J. Miller, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2024
• For example, the hyenas here don’t come in mating pairs.
  — Katie Jackson, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2023
• There were naysayers, of course, who said the captive butterflies wouldn’t survive in the wild or be able to find each other to mate.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
• The mill is equipped with an aluminum intake, and dual four-barrell carburetors and is mated to a four-speed manual.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2024
• Three of the original 10 animals have died thus far, although one of those had already mated with another wolf and produced five pups, according to the Colorado Sun.
  — Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024

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mate

2 of 2 noun

• The insects emerge from the ground to flash and mate for only a few weeks.
  — Pien Huang, NPR, 26 May 2024
• In the vast emptiness of the deep sea, finding a mate is no small feat.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
• The song features a sample of the band’s one-time tour mates, the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2024
• How about the random sock that came out of the dryer without a mate?
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024
• This would have marked the first time Mullen performed in concert with his band mates since 2019.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 2 Mar. 2024
• Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, has floated the idea of a $5,000-per-kid credit.
  — Veronique De Rugy, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2024
• No running mate agrees with the top of the ticket on everything.
  — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
• Wisdom and her mate, Akeakamai, had returned to the atoll in the Pacific Ocean to lay and hatch eggs since 2006.
  — CBS News, 6 Dec. 2024
• And her choice for running mate is more popular than Trump’s choice.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2024
• Kennedy plans to name his running mate Tuesday, in Oakland.
  — Allison Novelo, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2024
• Alligators are known to fight to the death over turf, mates and protecting their young.
  — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
• Newton scored and so did backcourt mate Cam Spencer, that different style of smart aleck, who had 20.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
• Assuming all stays that way, the next big question for Democrats is: Whom will Harris pick as her running mate?
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• The artist paired her callout to Trump’s running mate with a photo of herself smiling while holding her pet.
  — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024
• There are no female Eurasian eagle-owls in New York, and so for Flaco, no potential mates.
  — Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Now, much of the discussion about Trump’s campaign has switched to who the former president will pick as his running mate.
  — David Gilbert, WIRED, 25 Jan. 2024
• This former Disney princess is looking for her real-life Prince Charming and thinks Joey could be her soul mate.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
• Then, my middle child who sets the table, my sensitive sweet little soul mate.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 29 Nov. 2024
• Thirty-nine percent call it highly important to them whom Biden picks as his running mate; 35% say the same for Trump.
  — Gary Langer, ABC News, 5 May 2024
• The image really does show a male king penguin trying to make a move on a female who has already paired up with her mate.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• Her appearance also comes at a time where she is rumored to be among the potential picks to be Trump's running mate.
  — Olivia Rinaldi, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2024
• Much of the line-up, including Trump’s running mate, remains unknown.
  — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 12 July 2024
• Thankfully for mom Kelly Levine, her seat mate turned out to be the sweetest passenger.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2024
• Trump’s running mate, struck a similar tone on Wednesday.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Aug. 2024
• Walz is the governor of Minnesota and is Harris' running mate.
  — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2024
• Granted, the 26-year-old was brought on board to complement fellow backfield mate, Zamir White, in what was to be a transition year for the franchise.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
• Despite those critiques, Haley has not ruled out serving as Trump’s running mate.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• Vance held a rally in his hometown of Middletown shortly after he was named Trump's running mate.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2024
• If we are headed for a Republican Administration a year from now, for all our sakes, one hopes for the running mate’s.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2024
• Trump previously ruled out the idea of choosing Pence as his running mate again after their fallout over the Capitol riot.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Feb 2025