impregnated

Example Sentences

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While the cow is milking, she is impregnated.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2024

The maggots arrived at her doctor’s office impregnated in a gauze pad.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2024

As for the suggestion that Charlotte could have been impregnated by a shark, Lyons said that’s impossible.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2024

He also believed the drink might prevent scurvy, saying, "In general the disease in which water impregnated with fixed air will most probably be serviceable are those of a putrid nature."

From Salon • Jul. 27, 2023

A smell of tender mushrooms, of wood-flower fungus, of old and concentrated outdoors impregnated the air of the bedroom as it was breathed by the colossal old man weatherbeaten by the sun and the rain.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez