How to Use embryo in a Sentence

embryo

noun
Definition of embryonext
  • What did that mean about the whereabouts of their own embryo?
    — Elizabeth Narins, Health.com, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Which is where the 14-day rule and the changing shape of embryo science comes in.
    — Ross Douthat New York Times, Star Tribune, 24 June 2021
  • The Cardinales’ case is not the first in which there was an embryo mix-up.
    — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Is the person or the people who those embryos belong to charged?
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Image Then the researchers grew fish embryos from the cells.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The germ is its embryo, which has the potential to sprout into a new plant.
    — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Rd, Health, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The parents then choose an embryo to implant in the mother.
    — James Lee, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The next step on their journey is to find a surrogate to carry the embryo to term.
    — Julie Moreau, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The doctors were able to get seven — three less than their goal in the hope of getting one healthy embryo.
    — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • An embryo like the one detailed in the paper, with all its bones in place, is rarer still.
    — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Her ovaries are pulled outside her body, and a catheter full of embryos is plunged into her oviduct.
    — Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • With white rice, the grain is polished in a way that removes two parts—the bran and embryo—and leaves a starchy section called the endosperm.
    — Cynthia Sass, Rd, Health.com, 1 July 2021
  • Bizarrely, most of the embryo’s long stint in utero is spent barely doing anything at all.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Some dropped their eggs in the shallow pits, and the embryos likely cooked from being too close to hot surface sand.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • In February, the Troxlers had one last chance with a frozen embryo.
    — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The embryos were nourished by a milk-like substance secreted in the oviduct.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024
  • The result is that over a million frozen eggs or embryos are stored in the United States today.
    — Eva Epker, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • But as that egg becomes an embryo, the cells within it become more set in their ways.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The uterus transplant takes place and six months later, the embryo is implanted.
    — Williesha Morris | [email protected], al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The embryos came from two other couples, both of whom sued for custody.
    — Julia Whelan Krish Seenivasan Lance Neal, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The medical name for the process the Ridgeways went through is embryo donation.
    — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The $15 million is probably enough, Church said, to get to an embryo — to get a calf more money will need to be raised.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Clear ice means the water had time to expand around the embryo before freezing.
    — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Scientists clone Ripley, along with the Xenomorph Queen embryo inside her, to study the aliens.
    — Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The embryos would have otherwise been wasted when the mothers died.
    — Gareth J. Fraser, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The chimeric embryos were made by injecting the human stem cells into the pig embryos.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Few Americans relish the thought of ending the life of an embryo or fetus.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
  • This resilience in the embryo has taken some by surprise.
    — Laura Hercher, Scientific American, 1 June 2022
  • They can be frozen, or combined with sperm to create embryos first and then frozen, so the eggs can be used in the future to try for a pregnancy.
    — Katie Camero, SELF, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The gut and brain are connected from the very beginning, originating from the exact same cells in the human embryo.
    — Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 28 Oct. 2024

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