How to Use motility in a Sentence

motility

noun
  • In this case, certain receptors that help gut motility are blocked.
    — Jessica Migala, Women's Health, 15 Apr. 2023
  • They are also thought to improve gut motility and reduce the risk of leaky gut syndrome.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Almstrup also points out there can be more problems with sperm than just low numbers or poor motility.
    — Andrea Marks, Scientific American, 22 Mar. 2017
  • It is also designed to boost your motility and digestion.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Gut motility is how food and waste move through the GI tract and how bowel movements exit the body.
    — Brittany Dube, Health, 8 Feb. 2025
  • This supplement can help protect sperm from oxidative damage and may help sperm motility.
    — Casey Seiden, Parents, 19 May 2024
  • Ginger speeds up your gastric motility, or how quickly food moves through your gastrointestinal tract.
    — Ashia Aubourg, SELF, 9 Oct. 2023
  • During flight, in addition to low residue foods, some use was also made of drugs to reduce intestinal motility.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2021
  • First, exercise increases the motility of your colon, which reduces the amount of time your stool sits in your belly making gas.
    — Sarah Bradley, Women's Health, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Gut motility, the process by which the digestive system processes food and expels stool, tends to slow with aging.
    — Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Add fiber to your diet to promote gastric motility and reduce the risk of constipation.
    — Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 1 Oct. 2025
  • This affects the muscles in the digestive tract and slows down digestion and gastric motility.
    — Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 13 Feb. 2025
  • High-fiber foods like kiwi can speed up gut motility to an uncomfortable degree, Lindsay said.
    — Stephanie Anderson Witmer, Health, 16 Dec. 2025
  • In humans, a small study found that maca root supplements may improve sperm count and motility in men with fertility issues.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Their research saw that the Black men in their study had even lower sperm concentrations and motility compared with other men.
    — Melanie Curry, Men's Health, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Researchers identified eight types of polymers, with some affecting sperm motility.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The technology could help sperm with low motility move toward the egg in fertility treatments.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 25 Feb. 2025
  • That said, researchers of the new study did not find any association between cell phone use on motility and morphology.
    — Kaitlin Vogel, Health, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Metabolism slows down over time, and so does bowel motility and the mobility of intestines.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 26 Dec. 2023
  • What will make a smart G-tube ‘smart’ is its ability to measure stomach motility (or movement) for clinicians.
    — Christopher Reardon, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Studies have also found that sperm count, motility, concentration and volume have declined sharply in recent decades.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Eric delivered a decent spiel about sperm motility as a proxy for health and how sperm racing drew attention to important issues.
    — Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The ability of sperm to properly swim through the female reproductive tract to reach and fertilize an egg is called motility.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Additionally, testosterone helps to increase the motility of sperm cells.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
  • But freezing sperm, a necessity when recovering semen from wild males in the field, reduces its motility.
    — Amy Mathews Amos, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2023
  • In animal studies, maca root has been shown to increase sperm production and motility, as well as improve fertility in male rats.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2023
  • To test male infertility, doctors can look at the concentration of sperm and motility, meaning how active the sperm are.
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 29 May 2025
  • Nicotine, marijuana and excess alcohol have all been linked to lower sperm count, poor motility and abnormal shape.
    — Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
  • When zinc attaches to these receptors, sperm motility increases.
    — Amy Brownstein, Verywell Health, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Belladonna contains atropine, which blocks cisapride from helping with the motility of your gastrointestinal tract.
    — Mary Choy, Health, 9 Oct. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'motility.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: