How to Use embryonic in a Sentence

embryonic

adjective
  • The tourism industry there is still in an embryonic stage.
  • Blood vessels in the limb of an embryonic mouse.
    — Matt Nighswander, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2025
  • And then the little creature would come out and chew through its embryonic sac.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2024
  • And these aren't the same as embryonic stem cells, which are found in fertilized egg.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 31 Oct. 2017
  • But in the short term, Soucek could play a key role in this embryonic stage of his vision.
    — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The glam factor, though, was still embryonic.
    — Nick Scott, Robb Report, 17 May 2026
  • Well, growth factors made from fetal or embryonic cells are the gold standard.
    — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Then the embryo takes over and a strict sequence of embryonic genes kicks in, setting up more features.
    — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2020
  • It is often forgotten, but the goal's greatest piece of skills was at the very embryonic stages of the move.
    — SI.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • If astronomers could find an embryonic planet in a place like this, the payoff would be far-reaching.
    — Joshua Sokol, WIRED, 28 May 2018
  • These are made from human embryonic stem cells, grown into the types of cells needed for transplant.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2019
  • The small size and embryonic nature of this market would have made that difficult.
    — Alex Webbbloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2019
  • But Olivia resembles Eloise in both her fits of pique and her embryonic sense of chic.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
  • At this stage, Murray’s offense is all upside, which is to say most of it is still embryonic.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • And this new data privacy working group is still in the embryonic stages.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The class-action lawsuits of aggrieved bettors are still in their embryonic stages.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 16 May 2021
  • But this research found that some of the strange looks of these sharks happen in the late stage of the embryonic development.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The new fossils give researchers a few clues to go searching for more embryonic and hatchling tyrannosaurs.
    — National Geographic, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Over time the tree develops knobs of embryonic tissue at the end of each branch that becomes the origin of the next season’s growth.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 6 Apr. 2018
  • This season still is too much in the embryonic phase to draw any conclusions despite an uninspiring start.
    — Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2026
  • But fossils of embryonic Shonisaurus as well as those that had only just begun to swim on their own were also in the area.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The vision, however, was as crucial as the sound, and the vision was as yet inchoate, embryonic.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
  • These updrafts keep the embryonic stone aloft long enough to gather up water into an ice ball, and the stronger the updraft, the bigger the stones can grow.
    — John Ingold, The Denver Post, 15 May 2017
  • That is when the rather featureless blob of embryonic cells starts to fold and rearrange itself to acquire the first hints of body structure.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2023
  • The second is to keep the body’s immune system from destroying the cells, derived from human embryonic stem cells.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • EVs from both embryonic and uterine cells altered lipid droplet behavior.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
  • That embryonic Xenomorph then shatters its container and leaps at Wendy, who pets it gently.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Throughout the 1980s, narratives in video games were still in an embryonic stage.
    — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2021
  • The case for the baby great white sighting While in utero, embryonic sharks feed on unfertilized eggs for protein.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Some lipid droplets were transferred directly into embryonic cells.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025

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