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

For ages they had fertilized their eggs by an artificial process, the secret of which lay hidden in the little cave of a far-off valley where Dian and I had spent our honeymoon.

From Pellucidar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Ages ago a torrent had fertilized the surrounding tract, and its dried- up bed was marked by water-smoothed boulders.

From The Wheel O' Fortune by Tracy, Louis