gestate
Example Sentences
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If “The Moment” had more time to gestate, it would likely be a much sharper and shocking satire.
From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026
As female cicadas lay eggs that gestate for the next 13 or 17 years, it can cause short-term damage to some trees and shrubs.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2024
Mothers not only gestate us and grant us introduction to life, but they can keep giving it to us throughout their years.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2023
They will then try to create an embryo carrying that modified DNA that could gestate in an African elephant “surrogate” or an artificial uterus.
From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2022
The girls can't gestate in that climate, at least not until they've been there long enough to get their glands adjusted.
From PRoblem by Nourse, Alan Edward
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.