How to Use sperm in a Sentence

sperm

noun
  • The sperm fertilizes the egg.
  • That was a very long run of jokes about Elon Musk’s sperm.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The signal below the testes is from the epididymis that stores the sperm.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Now add a new crisis to the list: a shortage of crab sperm.
    Lizzie Johnson, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
  • But these embryos weren’t the product of an egg and a sperm.
    Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Aug. 2022
  • This is shirako, the sperm sacs of cod, soft and milky as oysters.
    Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • Valdez’s sperm was found in the woman’s home, according to the suit.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Donor sperm is around £1000 per vial, which is equal to one round of treatment.
    Jamie Wareham, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
  • There’s even a lounging form written in the meat of the fruit that might be a sperm or a vulva.
    Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
  • Sometimes, doctors help the sperm and the egg join so adults can have a baby.
    Robin Elise Weiss, Phd, Parents, 8 July 2024
  • Matt White, one of the children fathered using Cline's sperm, helped to get the bill passed.
    Ali Pantony, Glamour, 20 Apr. 2022
  • This keeps the sperm from reaching and fertilizing the egg.
    Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 13 July 2023
  • In fact, some aren't friendly at all and may even damage sperm.
    Nicole Harris, Parents, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Week 3: In a cycle when someone would become pregnant, the sperm and the egg meet up around the start of this week.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Dad was a dollop of decades-old frozen Poitou sperm from a French jack, or male donkey.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • On the other hand, sperm can live for up to five days under the right conditions.
    Holly Eagleson, Parents, 30 Nov. 2023
  • When there’s no sperm to fertilize the egg, the uterine lining sheds, and voilà!
    Julia Sullivan, SELF, 18 July 2024
  • The fluid usually does not have sperm in it, but that’s not always the case.
    Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Her eggs were stored and then fertilized with Tauer's sperm.
    Star Tribune, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Men can be seen as peripheral to the IVF process, like their job is just to give sperm.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Take, just for example, the cost of finding donor sperm.
    Michelle Stansbury, Good Housekeeping, 19 Apr. 2022
  • In a boy, the hormones trigger the testicles to make testosterone and sperm.
    Carrie Madormo, Rn, Mph, Verywell Health, 9 July 2024
  • One of them, mixed with her husband’s sperm, formed a healthy embryo that was transferred to her body.
    Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • But the process of ensuring the sperm is washed out can take up to three months for some patients, Werthman said.
    Meena Venkataramanan, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
  • Damir offers to donate his sperm – but won’t be involved as a dad.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 July 2022
  • The mother then confirmed they had been conceived with donor sperm.
    Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • If lab tests found the fish to be healthy, its sperm would be combined in vitro with eggs from wild females.
    Author: Richard Read, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2021
  • These models are made from stem cells, not egg and sperm, and can’t grow into babies.
    Laura Ungar, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
  • Surrounded by sperm inside a mucus shell, the pink bundles are no bigger than a piece of quinoa, Zimmerman said.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Research in adult males concluded that tongkat ali root extract increased testosterone levels and enhanced sperm quality and production.
    Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 9 Oct. 2024

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