How to Use embryo in a Sentence

embryo

noun
  • One, the embryo, can grow into a new plant.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • One sperm unites with the egg, making an embryo.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • What did that mean about the whereabouts of their own embryo?
    — Elizabeth Narins, Health.com, 7 Dec. 2021
  • But then, a second embryo from her frozen eggs did.
    — Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 31 May 2026
  • Clients use the scores to pick which embryos to use to try to have children.
    — Rob Stein, NPR, 6 May 2026
  • Then, when more light and warmth hit the soil, the embryo breaks through the coating.
    — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Inside each plant seed is the embryo of a future plant.
    — Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
  • And the curled posture of the embryo follows an ovoid shape like that of an egg.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2026
  • To her surprise, Aria finds an embryo lodged in the corpse’s uterus.
    — Waka Tsunoda, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Leaving seeds in the water too long can cause rot and kill the plant embryo.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Moments later, the brain was gone, but the embryo was still alive.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2018
  • There is something deeply strange about looking at a shark embryo.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Priya’s team has since seen these fractures in the hearts of chicken embryos.
    — Clare Watson, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026
  • What looks like a giant tube enters stage right and sucks the embryo up and out of view.
    — refinery29.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Leaving seeds in the water too long can drown the plant embryo and cause the seeds to rot.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Feb. 2026
  • All of their embryos had been stored together in the same vial, in the tank that had failed.
    — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Clients then use those polygenic risk scores to pick which embryos to use to try to have a baby.
    — Rob Stein, NPR, 6 May 2026
  • Her ovaries are pulled outside her body, and a catheter full of embryos is plunged into her oviduct.
    — Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • The clinic said most of the eggs and embryos in the lab were not affected.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The embryos were not used for pregnancies.
    — Laura Dattaro, Scientific American, 10 June 2026
  • The germ is its embryo, which has the potential to sprout into a new plant.
    — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Rd, Health, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Is the person or the people who those embryos belong to charged?
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
  • No embryos were cultured beyond this point.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Her embryo was still in Nadiya, having waited for her for three years.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 22 Feb. 2026
  • The embryos came from two other couples, both of whom sued for custody.
    — Julia Whelan Krish Seenivasan Lance Neal, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • But as that egg becomes an embryo, the cells within it become more set in their ways.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2021
  • By this time the embryo has reached the hollow ball stage, called a blastocyst.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Whether a pre-embryo is a human being is, at least in part, a question of fact.
    — courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The Cardinales’ case is not the first in which there was an embryo mix-up.
    — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Most of the edited embryos also showed mosaicism, in which genomes vary from cell to cell.
    — Laura Dattaro, Scientific American, 10 June 2026

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