How to Use fetus in a Sentence

fetus

noun
  • About a dozen of them held large signs of tiny fetuses from the womb.
    — Brooke Park, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2026
  • But little is known about the impact of those drugs on a fetus.
    — Eshe Nelson Charlotte De La Fuente, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
  • But little is known about the impact of those drugs on a fetus.
    — Laura C. Morel, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Five of the people were pregnant, one of whom lost the fetus.
    — Sophie Reardon, CBS News, 6 July 2022
  • Kitelinger did not recover, and her fetus could not be saved.
    — Jessica Boehm, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2020
  • That’s when the fetus gets entangled in the womb and blood flow is cut off.
    — J.l. Kirven, The Indianapolis Star, 27 May 2021
  • The fetus had two holes in his heart, no nose bone and his brain had not developed.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The uterus and round ligaments stretch as the fetus grows in the womb6.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 18 May 2022
  • Now, the tech is doing an ultrasound and says there are no signs of a fetus.
    — refinery29.com, 30 Nov. 2020
  • The video screened Tuesday appears to show a fetus with a face and limbs.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The doctor discovered the virus had passed to the fetus in utero.
    — Anne Thompson, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • In utero, the fetus does not have the status of life, but of potential life.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Even then, the tiny fetus could be lost amid surrounding blood and tissue.
    — Lara Freidenfelds / Made By History, TIME, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Many of those issues can be life-threatening to a fetus.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 24 Feb. 2026
  • In Byrn, the question was whether a fetus was a person and had the right to life.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
  • But doctors said her six-month fetus had a heartbeat and that Crain was fine to leave.
    — Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Her fetus did not survive the crash and her 11-month-old son was also killed.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The park's zoo team was able to capture the fetus' head, eyes and mouth with the ultrasound.
    — Taylor Pettaway, ExpressNews.com, 13 Jan. 2021
  • The body of his wife and the boy's fetus washed ashore in April 2003.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2021
  • One infection in a pregnant woman led to the loss of her fetus.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Experts say the vaccine will not harm a pregnant person or the fetus.
    — Claire Wolters, Verywell Health, 17 May 2023
  • Most of the work so far has used fetal bovine serum, which is harvested from cow fetuses.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
  • One described a case in which the follow-up testing revealed the fetus was healthy.
    — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The pregnancy ends when the lining can no longer support the fetus.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
  • In one case, a pregnant woman with low vision couldn’t see the face of her fetus on a sonogram.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Adding to Smith’s suffering was the fact that her body refused to give up the fetus.
    — Tamarra Kemsley, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 July 2022
  • That’s the idea that fetuses should have the same legal status as children.
    — Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2026
  • And inside this hollow ball of cells, reshaped by fracture, a fetus will grow.
    — Clare Watson, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Her body and the fetus of her unborn son washed ashore in April 2003.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The woman's fetus wasn't harmed in the incident.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 28 Jan. 2026

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