How to Use gamete in a Sentence

gamete

noun
  • The divers went to collect gametes each night this week.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 17 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a little explosion of light as both dump their gametes in the water.
    — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2018
  • Once a group of adults is conditioned, they are transferred to warmer water and made to release their gametes.
    — Julia Rentsch, baltimoresun.com, 18 Aug. 2019
  • This is precisely why such people were never good candidates to be gamete donors in the first place.
    — Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Once adult human cells can be made into gametes, editing the stem cells will be relatively easy.
    — Jason Pontin, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
  • In Darwin’s day, of course, the processes by which gametes are formed and then fused had yet to be discovered.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • These stem cells will eventually be converted into gametes, sperm and egg cells.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2019
  • Many fish change their gamete production from eggs to sperm, or vice versa; some worms produce both at once; some lizard species produce no sperm at all.
    — Donna L. Maney, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Four people can pair up, create two embryos and combine gametes from those embryos to make a baby that has four parents.
    — William Saletan, WSJ, 28 June 2018
  • Early plants, for example, still needed to let their gametes swim to each other in standing water.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The plants are giddily spewing their powdery gametes all over everything.
    — Daniel Pund, Car and Driver, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Genetic testing has increased, anonymity is gone and caps on the number of families that can use one donor’s gametes are common.
    — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Wednesday night was a much bigger event, and thousands of gametes were collected, Matsuda said.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Other examples include dandelion seeds being carried on the breeze or coral gametes being pushed along by ocean currents.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025
  • If Fisch’s data are any indication, New York men produce more of the wiggly gametes than most.
    — Mary Roach, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • DuBose also sponsored a bill that would have put specific gender definitions in state law, based on the presence of gametes.
    — Alander Rocha, al, 6 June 2023
  • Ford says, explaining that the animals procreate by releasing their gametes into the sea and trusting that sperm and eggs will commingle.
    — Degen Pener, Los Angeles Magazine, 22 June 2018
  • The corals in natural conditions spawned as predicted and expressed many genes only during or just before releasing their gametes.
    — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017
  • His lab had successfully nudged the development of stem cells to around week three of that cycle, inching closer to the development of a human gamete.
    — Jason Pontin, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
  • By flocking together, the sperm group’s momentum cancels out any wayward movements of a lone gamete, collectively giving them a more direct path to the egg.
    — Marcus Woo, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2015
  • Gametes and gamete production physiology, by themselves, are only a part of the entirety of human lives.
    — Agustín Fuentes, Scientific American, 1 May 2023
  • Among the organization’s platforms are calls for a national retroactive ban on anonymous gamete donation.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Clearly, there are strong mechanisms by which Mendel’s law of segregation (that decrees equal access to gametes by allelic pairs) is enforced.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The chalk bass, however, is capable of producing both male and female gametes (sperm or eggs) simultaneously.
    — Mary K. Hart, National Geographic, 6 July 2016
  • Pollen contains the plants’ male gametes, which, when deposited onto another flower in the right place, can fertilize the female gametes and produce seeds that grow into new plants.
    — Claire Therese Hemingway, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Another concern is how the gametes, or the reproductive cells, might be affected by conditions beyond Earth.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Telfer notes that in her own work, which relies on natural precursors to human egg and sperm cells, successfully growing mature gametes remains difficult.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The exact identity of the sperm was random, and the egg waited passively until the Michael Phelps of gametes finally arrived.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2017
  • Females produce large gametes and our bodies are organized around gestation and birth; males have small gametes and their bodies are organized around impregnating.
    — Paisley Currah, The New York Review of Books, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The animal kingdom does not limit itself to only one biological binary regarding how a species makes gametes.
    — Agustín Fuentes, Scientific American, 1 May 2023

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