hatch

Example Sentences

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When a gust yanks the handle out of her grasp, she decides to batten down the hatches, latching it behind her and inspecting her surroundings via phone flashlight.

From Literature

They hatched two chicks last year in early June.

From BBC

He moved her to the garage, where she guarded the eggs for weeks until they hatched into tiny spiderlings.

From BBC

The goal is for the altered males to mate with females, producing eggs that don’t hatch.

From Los Angeles Times

A new study in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution explores this question by examining oviraptor nesting behavior and hatching patterns.

From Science Daily