How to Use reproduction in a Sentence

reproduction

noun
  • The males also have large spines on the end of their tails that the team believes may have to do with reproduction.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Two years ago, the colonies suffered one of their worst years for reproduction in decades due to a lack of those fish.
    Patrick Whittle, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Once the team flipped that switch, the female flies had the ability to just do the whole reproduction thing on their own.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
  • The spring patterns up to this point are based much more on food and warmth than reproduction.
    Nicole Stone, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2024
  • For instance, as a Christmas card, the reproduction was not just the work of art, but the whole label.
    Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • Though the mural was torn down due to the school’s expansion, a poster reproduction of it still exists at the school.
    Megan Woolard, Journal Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The main difference might be the texture: The record’s couch appears to be more of a bouclé while the reproduction is velvet.
    Curbed, 15 Nov. 2022
  • According to the zoo, the species has a low success rate for reproduction.
    Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2022
  • The findings indicate that menopause ends reproduction in chimps at around the age of 50, the study authors write.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The poster, a large reproduction of the album cover, was stunning.
    Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Except that, in this world view, not all reproduction is equal.
    Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Though the device had a good-sized display, the color reproduction wasn't great.
    Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Each has its own life span, its own pattern of reproduction.
    Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • The new species was identified by its eyelids, reproduction method, scale pattern and DNA, the study said.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The zoo is part of the species survival program for the Galápagos tortoises, but reproduction wasn’t easy for the 80-year-old Max.
    Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2024
  • The paint colors are reproductions of those that were used in Colonial Williamsburg.
    Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 12 May 2024
  • Montessori talks about writing as a gesture of the hands, as opposed to a reproduction of the letters of the alphabet.
    Rivka Galchen, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
  • Early in the program, some females were triple clutched to speed up reproduction rates.
    Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 6 Oct. 2022
  • But none could have guessed just how challenging reproduction would be for the pair—and for pandas overall.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
  • All of this is to say that the reproduction criterion isn't black-and-white, and neither is the definition of life.
    Scientific American, 1 June 2023
  • But Ward wants the opposite – to talk about blood, to talk about hygiene, to talk about reproduction and everything that comes along with it.
    Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Maybe the pathogen coaxes the host to act in a way that increases the likelihood of reproduction, like Ophiocordyceps does for ants.
    Tara C. Smith, Quanta Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Pinyon jays rely on these mast crops for their reproduction, storing large quantities of seeds in the fall and winter to feed to their young in the spring.
    Sara Van Note, WIRED, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Such precise reproductions require a good deal of time to create, Clark said.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 19 July 2023
  • When your work is made digitally, the only way to sell it before this was to print it as reproduction.
    Amiah Taylor, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2022
  • The British apparently at first assumed that the head was a reproduction.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Philips and Grazia Chiuri touched on themes of metamorphosis, along with the idea that the reproduction of an original is never the same.
    Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2024
  • And we were all profoundly failed by a culture that taught men that reproduction is not their problem.
    Glamour, 13 May 2022
  • This dynamic — in which a bee feeds on a flower’s nectar and gathers pollen to feed larvae, and also propagates pollen from flower to flower, enabling plant reproduction — was already well established.
    quantamagazine.org, 30 Sep. 2024
  • This may disrupt reproduction in an era when corals are in serious decline and face a plethora of other threats like rising water temperatures and destructive diseases.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024

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