How to Use incubation in a Sentence

incubation

noun
  • The male doesn't help with incubation but guards the nest and chicks.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2018
  • The bald eagles will take turns in the incubation of the egg.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Also, check out some snaps of the band from the incubation stage.
    — Nick Williams, Billboard, 6 June 2019
  • The sun was bright, like the incubation lamps farmers used to keep young chicks alive.
    — Hazlitt, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Stop by the nursery on your right to see some native plants in incubation.
    — Charles Fleming, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
  • Four times a day, two eggs from each clutch were placed inside an incubation chamber for one hour.
    — Jennifer Leman, Scientific American, 22 July 2019
  • The team compared incubation calls to the begging calls of young chicks.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Wanner said the eggs are about halfway through their incubation.
    — David Williams, CNN, 11 Sep. 2020
  • The female will lay up to six eggs, and during incubation, the male bird will bring food to the female.
    — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2017
  • The male fertilizes these eggs, then takes them into his mouth for incubation.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Hatch dates are based on the average of 35 days of incubation.
    — cleveland, 14 Mar. 2020
  • There’s no retail strip awaiting incubation on that part of Stony.
    — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 22 Mar. 2018
  • In female eggs, the hole is sealed with medical tape, and the egg is returned to incubation.
    — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 14 Aug. 2019
  • As of early March, the nest held two eagle eggs, with the adult birds trading incubation shifts.
    — Val Cunningham Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021
  • More than half the businesses in our incubation program and kitchen are owned by people of color.
    — Samantha Bakall, OregonLive.com, 6 June 2017
  • Trumpeter swan eggs hatch after close to 35 days of incubation, and the cygnets swim away with their parents.
    — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
  • The female lays a clutch of one to three eggs, with incubation lasting 34 to 36 days.
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • If a parasite causes the infection, the incubation time can be one to two weeks.
    — Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 30 Oct. 2024
  • That was part of the incubation process, just being able to interact with those entities.
    — Simon Mainwaring, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • Those who were in close contact will be asked to quarantine in their own rooms for the full 14-day incubation window.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The incubation time for the virus to show symptoms is approximately six days.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2020
  • At the same time, Pop Mart is doubling down on new IP incubation.
    — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The dad stands on ice day and night during the brutal winter months, not eating for the duration of the egg’s incubation.
    — Ben Guarino, Popular Science, 13 June 2024
  • Still, for that to work, the sensitivity needs to increase to the point where incubation is not required.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
  • After 21 days of incubation, eight of the eggs hatched, delivering a small flock of cute, fluffy chicks.
    — Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Place the incubation vessel in cold water (fill the sink with cold tap water, or fill a bowl with ice water) until the yogurt is cool.
    — cleveland, 30 June 2020
  • Nests that are laid earlier stay cooler throughout their incubation.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Once laid, some eggs are sent away for incubation and replaced by smart fakes, which wiggle and cheep so that the mother is primed for her hatchling’s return.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The team returned the cells to the patients’ bloodstream after 24 hours of incubation.
    — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The state has to go two full incubation periods, or 42 days, with no positive tests to be declared measles-free.
    — Sophie Carson, Twin Cities, 31 May 2017

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