How to Use sperm donor in a Sentence

sperm donor

noun
  • But for me, my sperm donor was a drug addict and drug dealer and went to jail for that.
    — Grace Byron, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
  • Slepian had been conceived through a sperm donor, his father confessed over the phone.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Choosing my sperm donor wasn’t a candles, lobsters, and chocolates kind of affair.
    — Angela Hatem, Parents, 9 June 2026
  • And to make the audience believe that even a creepy aspiring sperm donor is a sweetie?
    — Rima Parikh, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2025
  • These mutations can be spontaneous, but the paternal age of a sperm donor can also be a factor.
    — Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Emerald has no need for men, using a sperm donor to create her perfect family of high-achieving triplets.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Emerald has no need for men, using a sperm donor to create her perfect family of high-achieving triplets.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2025
  • In the scene, Kevin awkwardly questions Jan about her sperm donor, delivering a punchline that implied he may have been involved.
    — Kennedy French, Variety, 21 Mar. 2026
  • However, individual countries may have their own rules or guidelines surrounding sperm donor usage.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The process families take in choosing the sperm donor of today who could turn into the genetic co-contributor of tomorrow is different for everyone.
    — Angela Hatem, Parents, 9 June 2026
  • The Donor Chloe Fineman and Sarah Sherman portrayed a couple asking their friend, played by Andrew Dismukes, to be a sperm donor during a dinner at a restaurant.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Watching their relationship devolve (never more so than when their sperm donor, a rakish, motorcycle-driving restaurant owner played by Mark Ruffalo, enters the scene) is most definitely a tear-jerking experience, as is the film’s final scene.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 28 June 2026
  • Russo-Young revisits her family’s unique—and headline-making—history in this engrossing docuseries about her biological father, a gay sperm donor, suing for paternity rights, and the lawsuit that threatened her already vulnerable family.
    — Dan Stahl, New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Russo-Young revisits her family’s unique—and headline-making—history in this engrossing docuseries about her biological father, a gay sperm donor, suing for paternity rights, a lawsuit that threatened her already vulnerable family.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
  • At that conference, Edwige Kasper — a specialist in cancer genetics at Rouen University Hospital in France — presented the case of the sperm donor whose genetic material carried the harmful variant.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 11 Dec. 2025

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