had fertilized
- past perfect of fertilize.
Example Sentences
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Three eggs had fertilized but none developed into embryos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
In mid-March, the Murillos learned that eight of the eggs from their anonymous Czech donor had fertilized with Tony's sperm.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2020
By 1969, he successfully had fertilized an egg in a test tube — or, more accurately, in a laboratory Petri dish.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2010
All my barrenness had disappeared; the heavenly dew had fertilized the dead and gnarled stick; it began to be green and flower again.
From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
The boundless fields which the waters had fertilized were then every where tilled.
From Cleopatra by Abbott, Jacob
