How to Use unfertilized in a Sentence

unfertilized

adjective

• Known to the world as a delicacy, caviar is unfertilized fish eggs with a salty taste.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2022
• Vets found an unfertilized egg that the kiwi was unable to lay.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 28 Dec. 2020
• But now, researchers revived the cells and fused one of them with an unfertilized egg from a domestic horse.
  — Jonathan Wosen San Diego Union-Tribune, Star Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020
• Waste and unfertilized eggs left by the fish become part of the food chain, and some of the sucker fry swimming back to the lake are gobbled up by northern pike, muskie and great blue herons.
  — Michael Hawthorne, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2017
• But, Drost said, the eggs are likely unfertilized and will not hatch because they were laid by a lesbian penguin couple.
  — NBC News, 23 Oct. 2020
• Whenever a nesting pigeon flies off to get a bite to eat, the laughingthrushes zip to her nest, hop around in it and poke at her unfertilized eggs with their beaks.
  — Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 10 Apr. 2021
• If nights fall below 55 degrees Fahrenheit, possible on any night of the year, blossoms will drop unfertilized, leaving only their stems to taunt us with what might have been.
  — Pam Peirce, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2021
• Drones develop from unfertilized eggs and are much larger than worker bees.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2023
• Those who have cut trees to produce a pasture or crop field often use it for just a few years and then, when its unfertilized soil has lost nutrients, abandon it or sell it cheap in one of these informal deals.
  — Juan Forero, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
• Caviar is unfertilized eggs—also known as roe—that are harvested exclusively from the sturgeon family of fish and then salt-cured.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 July 2021
• Whereas the goal with IVF is to produce an embryo that will then be implanted in a patient’s body, oocyte cryopreservation banks unfertilized eggs for later use.
  — Courtney Vinopal, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2022
• The queen can directly control the numbers of daughters and sons in the colony by laying either fertilized or unfertilized eggs, respectively.
  — Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2021
• The unfertilized eggs become male drones that do nothing but inseminate the queen—quite literally, flying bags of semen.
  — Ben Huberman, Longreads, 22 Sep. 2017
• Kono is particularly proud of the chochin, an ovary surrounding an unfertilized egg, still clinging to its fallopian tube and liver.
  — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2022
• We primates have spindle proteins, which are crucial for cell division, located near the chromosomes in our unfertilized eggs.
  — Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2021
• This year, a team led by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem finally produced haploid human embryonic stem cells by forcing unfertilized egg cells to divide.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2016
• Their reproductive system is limited, and females will be carrying far fewer unfertilized eggs in the autumn.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 June 2019
• Instead of figuring out when fertilization was happening inside a lizard, the researchers used unfertilized eggs instead.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2019
• For starters, collecting unfertilized eggs is a harrowing business.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 4 July 2018
• Scientists suspect that sometime around 1995, a genetic mutation allowed a pet crayfish to reproduce asexually, giving rise to a new, all-female species that could make clones of itself from its unfertilized eggs.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2020
• To clone an animal, ViaGen needs oocytes, or unfertilized eggs, to implant the genetic material into.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2020
• In wasps, bees and ants, however, males generally are born from unfertilized eggs and therefore contain only genetic information from their mother.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
• Meiotic drive is a type of competition within the genome of unfertilized eggs, where variations of different genes can manipulate the cell division process to favor their own transmission to the offspring over other variations.
  — Kathryn Kavanagh, The Conversation, 1 Sep. 2022
• The scientists also gathered crustaceans that had spent time in aquariums with reproductive male seaweed plants and relocated them to tanks containing unfertilized female plants.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2022
• Parthenogenesis is the development of viable offspring from unfertilized eggs, no sperm necessary.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2021
• Next, scientists retrieve an unfertilized egg from another donor animal.
  — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 12 Sep 2024