How to Use sperm cell in a Sentence

sperm cell

noun
  • The crime lab found sperm cells on her pink and blue underwear.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 1 May 2018
  • Both work by changing the way sperm cells move in the uterus and prevent them from reaching an egg.
    — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2024
  • And the body uses the folic acid in strawberries to create sperm cells.
    — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The lab found a sperm cell that did not belong to Bogle, officers said.
    — NBC News, 11 June 2021
  • As the reproductive cells of the body, these can be either egg cells or sperm cells.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 15 Jan. 2019
  • Their tests showed that some sperm cells did make it through, suggesting children may one day be conceived in space.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 27 Mar. 2026
  • In mammals, fertilization occurs when a sperm cell swims out to fuse with an egg.
    — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2018
  • First, the sperm cell has to be activated so its little tail starts wagging.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The egg and sperm cells cultivate the most interest, and the goal is to create and unite them.
    — Ashley Braun, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The eggs were fertilized by male sperm cells and implanted in female mice's uteruses.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The semen sample is then analyzed in a lab, and as long as the sample contains live sperm cells, it can be frozen and stored.
    — Samantha Lauriello, Health, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Each sperm cell moved like a spinning top, rotating around its own axis, and also around a middle axis.
    — Courtney Sexton, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2020
  • Both egg and sperm cells contain mitochondria, of course; without a power supply, sperm could not move.
    — Stephen Jay Gould, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The enzyme appears to play a major role in activating a sperm cell’s ability to swim.
    — WIRED, 14 Feb. 2023
  • But ouabain also affects another type of transporter subunit called α4, which is found only in sperm cells.
    — Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The boys were at the age when their sperm cells — the vessels that would transmit their genetic material — were forming.
    — Judith Finlayson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Like other cells in the body, sperm cells are produced and developed with a specific objective or design.
    — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Epigenetic Avenues In most animals, a sperm cell is tiny compared to an egg cell.
    — Ivan Amato, Quanta Magazine, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Technically, this made the babies fraternal triplets fertilized by one sperm cell.
    — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 14 Nov. 2016
  • Scientists diagnose a mysterious blockage in the flowers that keeps the sperm cells in the pollen from reaching the ovule.
    — Richard Conniff, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • There are particularly high levels of DHA in the retina, brain, and sperm cells.
    — Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 30 Mar. 2026
  • In mammals, including humans, fertilization occurs when a sperm cell swims toward and enters an egg cell.
    — Carla Bleiker, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The next centers on how molecularly encoded experience could make its way into sperm cells.
    — Ivan Amato, Quanta Magazine, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The ovum carries an X chromosome, while sperm cells can carry either an X or a Y chromosome.
    — Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The final cells were large eggs with 23 unpaired chromosomes, ready to fuse with a sperm cell containing a complementary set.
    — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 10 Feb. 2018
  • After one sperm cell joined to the egg, Juno disappeared from the egg surface within 30–45 minutes.
    — Erika Check Hayden, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2014
  • Chemical and genetic techniques can be used to get embryonic stem cells to turn into any cell type desired, including egg and sperm cells.
    — NBC News, 4 July 2018
  • In addition, the sperm of marijuana smokers had erratic or unusual sperm cell size and shape, as well as sluggish swimmers.
    — Brendan Bures, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • To get an accurate picture of how a sperm cell moves, Gadêlha and his team vertically suspended sperm in a solution.
    — Courtney Sexton, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2020
  • To do this genetic trimming, the chromosomes in cells line up in pairs and exchange bits of genetic material before forming an egg or sperm cell.
    — National Geographic, 23 Mar. 2018

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