How to Use ovulate in a Sentence

ovulate

verb
  • If a woman isn’t ovulating, there’s nothing to keep that buildup in check.
    — Ashley Abramson, SELF, 7 May 2025
  • That is because menopause occurs when your body stops ovulating.
    — Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Females ovulate once a month, meaning one, count 'em, one egg is released.
    — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2011
  • In some cases, a woman doesn’t make enough of the hormones needed to ovulate.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Dogs ovulate only once or twice a year and mature their eggs in the oviduct for a relatively long time.
    — Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • After mating, the female will ovulate, and the kittens are born about three months later.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
  • However, with the mini-pill, about half the people taking it still ovulate.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 18 Mar. 2024
  • However, with the mini-pill, about half the people taking it still ovulate.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Giant panda females only ovulate once per year, making the birth of these twins even more special.
    — Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 17 Aug. 2024
  • This is very common in adolescents who are just starting to ovulate and menstruate.
    — Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Mothers would stop lactating and start ovulating again, giving the marauding male a chance to spread his genes.
    — Blake Edgar, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
  • Typically in a menstrual cycle, one follicle ovulates one egg in about a month.
    — Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The hormones do more than control when women — or trans men, nonbinary people and others who ovulate — can get pregnant.
    — Caroline Hopkins, NBC News, 17 July 2022
  • Both of these types of pills work to shift your natural hormone levels in order to interrupt the normal signaling in your brain that tells your ovaries when to ovulate.
    — Women's Health, 20 June 2023
  • The sensors are being used to deliver more precise ovulation tracking and forecasting for those who ovulate.
    — Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Women who ingest multivitamins with folic acid regularly have been found to ovulate more (release eggs).
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Since menstruating people ovulate once a month, cysts show up and usually go away on their own after the menstrual cycle or after pregnancy.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Flow Space, 27 Oct. 2025
  • This is especially true for people with irregular cycles, who might ovulate closer to their menstrual cycle's start date.
    — Jennifer Barton, Parents, 3 Aug. 2023
  • A week after the pandemic forced the National Zoo to close, on March 14th, Mei began to ovulate.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Benn had tested positive for clomiphene, a fertility drug used by women who struggle to ovulate, but repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
    — Ben Church, CNN, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Couples may abstain from intercourse when a woman is ovulating or at a point in her cycle of high fertility to enhance the effectiveness of birth control through withdrawal.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 7 July 2024
  • People with endometriosis can experience pain while ovulating, having a bowel movement, or during urination.
    — Cathy Cassata, Health, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Each month when a woman can get pregnant, there’s a group of eggs that can respond to hormones, says Roth; the brain only sends enough hormones to the ovary for one egg to develop and ovulate and the remaining eggs go unused.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Menopause is a natural biological process that occurs when people who menstruate stop making the reproductive hormones their body needs to ovulate and menstruate each month.
    — Joy Emeh, Health, 18 July 2024
  • First, women typically ovulate only once per cycle, releasing one or more eggs simultaneously.
    — John Bonifield and Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 16 Apr. 2021
  • However, this can also depend on your menstrual cycle because while most people ovulate 10 to 14 days before their menses, some are irregular.
    — Sarah Bradley, Parents, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The theory is that conventional IVF could be overriding the body’s natural selection of the most viable of a woman’s eggs to ovulate in a month.
    — Sushma Subramanian, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2024
  • The clinic also offers natural-cycle IVF, which uses the single egg that a woman ovulates each month for fertilization and transfer.
    — Sushma Subramanian, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2024
  • Combination pills that contain progestin and estrogen work by preventing someone from ovulating, the Mayo Clinic explains.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 18 Mar. 2024
  • However, a study published this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B finds no evidence men can tell, let alone prefer, the smell of ovulating women.
    — Molly Herring, science.org, 24 July 2024

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