Example Sentences

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Then an angel appeared to Anna, saying: “Anna, Anna, the Lord has heard your prayer. You will conceive, and bear a child, and the child will be famous throughout all the world.”

From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2019

Even then, only about 35 percent of those women under the age of 35 will conceive.

From Scientific American • Nov. 7, 2019

According to the NHS, 82% of women aged between 35 and 39 will conceive within a year if they are having regular unprotected sex.

From The Guardian • Mar. 11, 2017

However, his odds may be slim, since whaling data suggest that fewer than 10 percent of females will conceive so soon after giving birth.

From New York Times • May 3, 2013

Though there is in the tempered scale no difference between C-sharp and D-flat, the musical reader will conceive them as different from one another, partly because of their connection with other related harmonies.

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef