How to Use inseminate in a Sentence

inseminate

verb
  • She was artificially inseminated in January.
  • In sharks these are known as claspers, and either one can be used to inseminate the female.
    — Louise Gentle, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Some species of flatworm engage in this duel to see who can inseminate the other.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The tails of the male dinosaurs aren’t in the right position to inseminate the females.
    — Brian Switek, WIRED, 12 July 2012
  • For that reason, Durrant and her team were able to inseminate the zoo’s rhinos by hand.
    — Damon Casarez, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Adams also artificially inseminates his dogs, crops their ears and docks their tails.
    — Bob Warren, NOLA.com, 15 July 2017
  • Screams ensue when the celebs are asked to sheer sheep, corral pigs and even artificially inseminate cows.
    — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The only part of their body that protrudes from the host is the brood canal, an opening through which males inseminate the female and larvae crawl to the outside world.
    — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 25 Feb. 2017
  • She was inseminated with semen from the zoo’s 19-year-old male panda Tian Tian.
    — Washington Post, 26 May 2017
  • The case is not the first time a Dutch fertility doctor has been unmasked for using his own sperm to inseminate women.
    — Fox News, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Dairy cows are inseminated with the aim of creating a beef-dairy hybrid calf that will reach maturity quickly.
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The scientists achieved this by recovering eggs from some of their captive cheetahs and inseminating them with sperm in their lab.
    — Rochelle Beighton and Rachel Wood, CNN, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The bill would prohibit doctors from using their own sperm to inseminate a patient without their consent and expose those who do to civil suit.
    — Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Throughout his career, Cline covertly inseminated dozens of patients with his sperm.
    — Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Dec. 2024
  • It might be coated with compounds capable of making sperm wriggle in place, keeping them from inseminating a woman’s egg.
    — Zoë Schlanger, Newsweek, 15 Dec. 2014
  • If a female hasn’t mated, or has mated with a dud male who’s known to have poor quality sperm, the team artificially inseminates her with sperm from a stud.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Le Le's sperm was frozen and used to inseminate female pandas at other locations, which helped boost the species' population.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Take similar comfort in the fact that humans don’t need to drink urine to start a relationship, as is the case with giraffes, nor inseminate each other via open wounds, as bed bugs do.
    — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The researchers’ workaround was to use a hydraulic restraining device that would keep a female oryx still enough—and gently—for researchers to inject or inseminate her.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The women Cline inseminated believed their child’s father was an unnamed sperm donor or their respective husband.
    — Women's Health, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The unfertilized eggs become male drones that do nothing but inseminate the queen—quite literally, flying bags of semen.
    — Ben Huberman, Longreads, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The fecund doctor, Donald Cline, has since admitted to lying to patients and using his own sperm to inseminate them.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2018
  • That doctor, Burton Caldwell, a sibling told her, had used his own sperm to inseminate her mother, allegedly without her consent.
    — Rob Kuznia, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The viable embryo is just the third to be created in a lab with eggs taken from the females and inseminated with frozen sperm from dead males, according to Wednesday’s statement.
    — Cara Anna, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2020
  • According to the New York Times, Epstein hoped that multiple women would be inseminated with his sperm.
    — Sharon Begley, STAT, 5 Aug. 2019
  • At the time, Rowlette didn’t know that more than 36 years ago, her parents had tapped a fertility doctor to artificially inseminate her mother.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • In the first few episodes, Jane gets artificially inseminated by her doctor and ends up being pregnant by her super-hot boss and ex-crush Rafael Solano.
    — Lluvia Perez, Teen Vogue, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Mortimer then recommended that Ashby be inseminated with her husband’s sperm and that of an anonymous donor in 1980.
    — Amanda Arnold, The Cut, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Instead, the lawsuit claims, her biological dad was a man whose sperm was used to inseminate Jeanine Harvey without her or her husband’s consent.
    — NBC News, 5 Feb. 2022
  • And the only way to have abundant supplies of milk is to (usually artificially) inseminate dairy cows to keep them in a near-constant cycle of calving and then weaning their offspring early.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 19 Sep. 2023

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