How to Use biological in a Sentence

biological

adjective
  • As a result, girls athletes in the state like Chavez and Lewis have had to play against biological males in the time since then.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Harwin tells his biological boys, Jace and Lucerys, to join the fight.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Damian is Bruce Wayne’s biological son, a fact unknown to Wayne for the first eight to 10 years of Damian’s life.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Laine raised Tad as her own after the death of his biological mother, Cheryl.
    — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
  • This can look like the stepparent and the biological parent setting up a time to talk, says Williams.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 15 Dec. 2022
  • And that’s when William overhears the news that Jamie is his biological father.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
  • For decades we were led to believe that the father who raised us was our biological father.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Austin knew biological parents didn’t have to be a child’s guardian.
    — Karen Garciastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Dionne is a woman who reached out to Hornigold in 2020, claiming to be his biological mother.
    — Emily Blackwood, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Two of their biological children, Nick and Rose, also declined to comment when reached by the Globe.
    — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The affidavit says Dash was the biological father of three of the woman’s children, including the 13-year-old charged with killing him.
    — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Take, for instance, a mother with a biological child, who gets a divorce and then marries a new spouse.
    — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 17 May 2022
  • This is a person that was closer to me than my own biological father.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The stuff disrupts a key biological process necessary to keep plants alive.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • In Kentucky, both biological parents of a child have to give their consent for a stepparent to legally adopt the child.
    — Sean Scott, The Enquirer, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Proteins are long strings of amino acids that form the building blocks of most biological processes.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 9 June 2022
  • In her memoir, Wong details the series of twists and turns (and a DNA test with surprising results) that led her to the truth about her biological father.
    — Jodi Helmer, Fortune, 13 July 2022
  • Yet, the Lord placed other men in his life as surrogate dads, who loved him like their biological children.
    — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
  • Bellugi helped the Salk emerge as an elite center for the biological sciences after its opening above Blacks Beach in the 1960s.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The singer is a former romantic partner of Porter’s and the biological father of her son, Quincy Brown.
    — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 2 Oct. 2024
  • There are a wide range of biological therapies that are used in people who do not respond to this treatment.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The parent-theme continues with Mel’s quest to find her biological father, who just might have been under her nose this whole time.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The two married when her daughter turned 8, but for the next 3 years, the girl primarily lived with her biological father.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Two were biological kin, both younger than Savage, the eldest of 10 siblings.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Hen and Karen find out that Denny is in contact with his biological father.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The Barnetts also claimed at the time that Grace had sinister intentions and tried to hurt both them and their biological children.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Authorities have said that Wynter was not Trice’s biological child, but the 1-year-old boy was.
    — Matthew Dolan, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 2023
  • What does that mean to be the biological mother of a fetus that is genetically not your child?
    — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • State researchers have found crayfish — freshwater crustaceans that belong to the same biological group as lobsters — in a creek on the trail.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The key biological mechanism behind this effect appears to be a drop in serotonin levels.
    — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025

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