How to Use artificial insemination in a Sentence

artificial insemination

noun
  • Some of the people who took the tests knew they'd been conceived through artificial insemination.
    — Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY, 8 June 2021
  • The new cub is hailed as the first product of an artificial insemination using only frozen sperm.
    — Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2020
  • In the early days of artificial insemination, bulls would have to prove their merit in real life.
    — Maureen O’Hagan, Quartz, 24 June 2019
  • Like its mother, the zoo said, the calf was conceived through artificial insemination, a historic first.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2023
  • This is Tashi’s fourth calf and her second born via artificial insemination.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 21 June 2019
  • But more challenges lie ahead, with artificial insemination of rhinos in zoos rare so far and resulting in only a few births.
    — Time, 19 May 2018
  • This type of artificial insemination is a treatment that is used to help increase the chances of sperm fertilizing an egg.
    — Matthew Wosnitzer, Verywell Health, 2 Jan. 2025
  • But the bird was small and failed to fertilize hens even after researchers tried artificial insemination.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The calf’s arrival marks the first birth of an oryx to be conceived through artificial insemination without the need for risky anesthesia.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018
  • But first, a rare white rhino, conceived through artificial insemination, turned 1 this week.
    — Arlene Martinez, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Caleb selects and buys the breeds online at a boar catalog and does the artificial insemination himself.
    — Clara Longo De Freitas, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 July 2021
  • Nonetheless, the birth brings an end to an anxious wait that began in March with artificial insemination.
    — Christine Dell'amore, National Geographic, 21 Aug. 2020
  • So the zoo, which has pandas, in large part, to study the reproduction and the preservation of the species, turned to artificial insemination.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2020
  • The calf is the first southern white rhino to be born through the use of artificial insemination in North America.
    — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The event was historic because the calf was the first-ever elephant in the world born via artificial insemination from a mother who was also born through the same procedure.
    — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Each was born in the 1960s and was used as a sire, providing semen for artificial insemination.
    — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • In the comics, Jess got pregnant through artificial insemination as a part of a deliberate attempt to move on to a different phase of her life.
    — Dan Gvozden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 June 2023
  • Both were conceived via artificial insemination, giving Durrant and the teams working on the rhino project hope for the future.
    — Adeline Chen, CNN, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Future is the 100th southern white rhino to be born at the park and the second conceived through artificial insemination.
    — USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2019
  • One of their male pandas, Le Le, helped other pandas across the world conceive babies through artificial insemination, the zoo said.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Brought into the world through an artificial insemination process gone wrong, Hae-jo was cast aside by his parents and grew up wandering his way through life without a family.
    — Regina Kim, Forbes, 19 Nov. 2024
  • When the time comes, the materials are thawed and used for things such as cloning plants or, for animals, artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization.
    — Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The capture of wild whales has been banned for decades, so SeaWorld developed an artificial insemination program.
    — CBS News, 7 June 2019
  • But with artificial insemination, Tex would go on to have a total of 180 children and grandchildren.
    — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The two soon decided to embark on the project, and about a year later, Bott delivered the world’s first female reindeer calf through artificial insemination.
    — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The herd’s newest addition is a young male named Naveen, who was born this year as a product of artificial insemination — and whose sire died in 2011.
    — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Mei Xiang and Tian Tian are the parents of several cubs — all of whom were conceived through artificial insemination.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Since then, SeaWorld has relied mostly on captive breeding to stock its parks with killer whales, even mastering the art of artificial insemination.
    — Tim Zimmermann, Outside Online, 30 July 2010
  • The cub’s birth marks the first time a zoo in the United States has induced a successful pregnancy and birth via artificial insemination with only frozen semen.
    — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Given the data — a more than threefold difference in birth rates between natural mating and artificial insemination — so would the science.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026

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