How to Use in utero in a Sentence

in utero

adverb or adjective
  • The killings can even affect the health of their infants in utero.
    — Wired, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Is the killer one of the children that was shown in utero to have the psychopath gene?
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The voice is really the first thing that a baby hears in utero.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Some can show symptoms at birth, and some can be diagnosed in utero.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026
  • Some will show symptoms at birth, and some are diagnosed in utero.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
  • Two babies, infected in utero, were born pre-term and died.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The result is a living piece of work, one that was given the space to evolve in utero.
    — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2019
  • Babies grow much faster in their first year of life than at any other time, except in utero.
    — Elizabeth Florio, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023
  • For those of you who don't know what that is, we are fed through an umbilical cord in utero.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The doctor discovered the virus had passed to the fetus in utero.
    — Anne Thompson, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Arizona wants to lead a team in performing brain surgery on the fetus while in utero.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
  • But soon after, the doctors came to us and said Katie had suffered a stroke in utero.
    — Richard Laver, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
  • Bizarrely, most of the embryo’s long stint in utero is spent barely doing anything at all.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2023
  • This waste was spread around the town through mud and dust, which the mothers inhaled while their babies were in utero.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Some specialties emerge in utero, and some split and form afterward.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The baby was the first and only case that had ever been diagnosed in utero.
    — Patricia Lockwood, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
  • And what of the mamas, those wanting to simply protect their babies in utero and in arms.
    — Rachel Hardeman, Star Tribune, 24 May 2021
  • In contrast to the in utero years needed by a mammoth, the thylacine may only need a few weeks.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The couple also had a son, Jake, who was infected with the virus in utero.
    — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • After all, this is the man who tried to kill the twins in utero and did kill their biological mom.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Gideon and his team started planning the separation surgery while the twins were still in utero.
    — NBC News, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Symptoms arise after the babies have been exposed to opioids in utero.
    — Philly.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Some species manage to give birth to live young, yet the mother contributes little to no food in utero.
    — Jake Buehler, National Geographic, 8 June 2020
  • Denied children in life, a kuntilanak steals them, those in utero and those already born.
    — Literary Hub, 5 May 2026
  • In one of the pregnancies in the study, the fetus was diagnosed with a heart defect in utero.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Bricker was born without legs due to a uterine band cutting off the blood supply to her lower limbs in utero.
    — Colson Thayer, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The massive loss of oocytes in utero occurs throughout much of the animal kingdom.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022
  • The virus can also be transmitted from pregnant mothers to their infants in utero.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 20 Oct. 2021
  • That egg didn’t get enough calcium in utero, and since the shell is weakened, it should also be discarded.
    — Sarah Zlotnick, Country Living, 9 June 2021
  • In the world of medicine, in utero fetal surgery for the spina bifida defect is still relatively new.
    — Ginger Christ, cleveland.com, 24 June 2019

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