How to Use infertile in a Sentence

infertile

adjective
  • She was also warned that the treatment could make her infertile.
    — Claire Altschuler, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
  • Still, as many as 80 percent of men who are infertile have low sperm counts.
    — Hallie Levine, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
  • One is infertile and the other is not able to reproduce on her own.
    — National Geographic, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Queen wasps can live up to a year, while worker wasps, infertile females that build and defend the nest, live two to three weeks.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Queen wasps can live up to a year, while worker wasps, infertile females that build and defend the nest, live two to three weeks.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Queen wasps can live up to a year, while worker wasps, infertile females that build and defend the nest, live two to three weeks.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 May 2026
  • Marthas are infertile women who have been assigned as cooks and cleaners to elite families.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Tehya and Goliath recently bred and produced two eggs of their own, but both were infertile.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2022
  • For instance, patients who need cancer surgeries that could leave them infertile have faced denials.
    — Maya Miller, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
  • In the course of tens of millions of years, the island’s infertile soils came to nurture a flora unlike any other in the world.
    — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Since 2022, the shark has laid eggs monthly that were thought to be infertile, according to the zoo.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Forest was cut down and burned before planting, and then, when the plot became infertile, the farmer moved to fresh forestland and did the same again.
    — Michael E Odijie, Quartz Africa, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Use ingestible birth control, which renders male rats infertile and causes females to reach menopause more quickly.
    — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • But the toxic drugs and radiation used in her treatment were likely to injure her ovaries and leave her infertile.
    — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Read Next World Fuzzy red creature was thought infertile at Canada zoo.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 18 June 2024
  • Skating usually works best in the infertile currents of medium- to fast-moving freestone streams.
    — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 26 June 2020
  • That statistic mostly reflects the rate at which couples were infertile, for one reason or another.
    — Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • If crops are not rotated properly, the soil can become infertile and nothing can be grown for several years.
    — Claire Wolters, National Geographic, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The two remaining females, Najin and Fatu, have been deemed infertile.
    — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 4 July 2018
  • The procedure is similar to one performed on infertile living men.
    — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The study found that exposing male frogs to the chemical turned 75% infertile, but turned one-tenth of them into female frogs.
    — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 13 July 2023
  • Both are descendants of Sudan and live in Kenya, and were considered infertile.
    — Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 5 July 2018
  • The name comes from a local legend that infertile women who trek through the island's dense forest and bathe in its mystical lake will be able to have children.
    — Ronan O'Connell, CNN, 10 May 2017
  • The fact that [Ruben] is infertile and what that means to his manhood, and his ability to be masculine and reproduce and have a son.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 29 May 2026
  • But my infertile yearnings, my disastrous pregnancy, did nothing to impart a sense of the sanctity of life.
    — Joanna Petrone, Longreads, 18 Aug. 2017
  • What is the one-term for the process by which fertile land becomes infertile desert land -- and that can be caused by drought, deforestation, or poor farmland management?
    — CNN, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Money off of breeding potential is not guaranteed; the first beagle to ever win best in show, Uno, was infertile.
    — Christine Mui, Fortune, 23 June 2022
  • Tehya and Goliath were paired together to produce new offspring, but the couple had recently laid two infertile eggs.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2022
  • As many as 70 percent of koalas might be infected, and 90 percent of those animals are infertile.
    — Gloria Dickie, Scientific American, 2 Mar. 2021
  • While most hybrid species survive into adulthood, some hybrid species like mules are infertile and others, like the liger—a mix between a lion and a tiger—are fertile.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2022

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