How to Use surrogate mother in a Sentence

surrogate mother

noun
  • Debbie was the one, though, who became like a surrogate mother.
    — Sarah Viren, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Punch and his surrogate mother went viral and visitors flocked to the zoo to see him.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 23 Feb. 2026
  • In fact, Dani saves Grace as a child and becomes her surrogate mother.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The surrogate mother and the twins all died a day away from a full-term, scheduled C-section.
    — Nr Interview, National Review, 9 Dec. 2017
  • First, Kurt needs at least another year with his surrogate mother.
    — Jonathan Wosen San Diego Union-Tribune, Star Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The team then transplanted the egg back inside the horse, which acted as a surrogate mother.
    — Jonathan Wosen San Diego Union-Tribune, Star Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020
  • This will be the Portuguese superstar's first child not to be born by a surrogate mother.
    — SI.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Ania, 26, who has two children of her own, is pregnant as a surrogate mother for the second time.
    — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Arthur welcomed Alysa and the rest of her four siblings through anonymous surrogate mothers.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 23 Feb. 2026
  • These would then be used to create embryos to be implanted into a surrogate mother.
    — Katarina Zimmer /, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Now, that surrogate mother is trapped in a maternity ward in a city in Russia’s crosshairs.
    — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Instead, the couple turned to a surrogate mother to conceive their second child, a son who is now 19.
    — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Long played her mother in the film—and instantly became something of a surrogate mother to the young actress on her first big job.
    — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The embryos are now stored in liquid nitrogen and will soon be transferred into a surrogate mother.
    — Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz Africa, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Single men often look to Cyprus or Belarus to find surrogate mothers.
    — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Of these surrogate mother monkeys, 12 became pregnant, and 6 gave birth to live young.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Then, the embryo is transferred to a surrogate mother, who will give birth after a normal gestation.
    — Alicia Lee, CNN, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The answer was to turn some of the cows into surrogate mothers for others looking to improve the genetics of their herds.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The group of kittens wouldn't survive long without a surrogate mother to provide care and nourishment.
    — Staff Author, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026
  • News of the raid comes four months after a surrogate mother gave birth in China to a boy whose parents had died four years earlier in a car crash.
    — Mike Ives, New York Times, 25 June 2018
  • The egg will then contain an exact copy of the donor’s genome, and if it is implanted into a surrogate mother, the eventual offspring will be a clone.
    — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2018
  • At this point, as the culture cells are finished and placed into oocytes, the resulting embryos are then transferred into the surrogate mother.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2020
  • When two attempts to find a surrogate mother for Jameela failed, staff made the difficult decision to send her to another zoo.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2026
  • This means that even a mouse-size marsupial could serve as a surrogate mother for a much larger adult animal like the thylacine, at least in the early stages.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Rey and Sunny were paired together to help Rey train to be a surrogate mother and young Sunny to pick up more skills.
    — Cierra Morgan, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Tired of being a surrogate mother to Jodie (Kiernan Shipka), a young dancer in the revue.
    — Marya E. Gates, IndieWire, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The Liu children were conceived via in vitro fertilization and born to surrogate mothers.
    — Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Coffey and his husband welcomed to the world their son Tūtānekai Smith-Coffey, born via surrogate mother, last month.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Two cheetah cubs have been born via in vitro fertilization to a surrogate mother for the first time ever at the Columbus Zoo.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Bernice Sadie Brown, who has experienced a lifetime of love and loss, is a surrogate mother for Frankie.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2019

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