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Male jewel beetles, having evolved to respond to the exciting sight, are known to mistake orange peels for potential mates and die in a fruitless attempt to impregnate them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

When the cow reached maturity, the team unsuccessfully attempted to impregnate her using standard artificial insemination techniques.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024

In 2022, a federal court jury in Vermont awarded a woman $5.25 million from a doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate her during an artificial insemination procedure in 1977.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

Female sea horses utilize a protruding egg duct to essentially impregnate the male sea horse with her eggs, which he fertilizes and eventually births.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2023

Then, by thrusting this between the bars of Finn's cage, and jabbing violently at the Wolfhound with it for several minutes, he endeavoured to impregnate the sacking on the rod with a smell of Finn.

From Finn The Wolfhound by Robert Hugh Buxton

Some of the plot elements are similar: In Raising Gazorpazorp, Morty grapples with becoming a single father after he accidentally impregnates an alien robot.

From Time ● Jul. 27, 2017

This forced feeding thoroughly impregnates the cotton in the fuel chamber of the lighter, minimizes evaporation, and yet permits Lyterlife to feed into the wick as readily as a liquid.

From Time Magazine Archive

When eaten, the cysts are destroyed by the digestive juices, and in two or three days the adult worm develops; the male impregnates the female and then dies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Being solicited by her sister mirth, she readily promises her assistance, flies away in a cloud, and impregnates the waters of Bath with new virtues, by which the sickness of Belinda is relieved.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson

It lingers about trenches and dugouts and impregnates soil and cloth for days.

From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson

“The inmate Carroll impregnated is not one of the two victims in this case,” Assistant District Attorney Eric DuTemple said in an email this week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The medical profession successfully argued for an exemption from the wet wipe ban, arguing that non-plastic wipes absorb too much of the detergents and disinfectants impregnated in them, with potential consequences for patient safety.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025

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

All these matters attended to, we may round out our day with insecticides by going to sleep under a mothproof blanket impregnated with dieldrin.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

In an Instagram preview to the interview that was posted this week, Tasha K’s edited caption read, “We never accused him of impregnating another woman.. it was only cheating‼️”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2023

In April, a jury awarded over $8 million in a civil lawsuit to families in Colorado who had been impacted by a fertility doctor impregnating dozens of people with his own sperm.

From Salon ● May 22, 2022

“They go against an innocent creature, and why not against the person who impregnated her? Where is that person? He’s going to continue impregnating girls.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2022

Extant, which premieres Wednesday night, tosses sci-fi films from 2001 to A.I. to Sunshine in a blender, and serves up a psychologically minded speculative smoothie, complete with impregnating aliens, emotional robots, and vast conspiracies.

From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2014

There was a mingled atmospheric flavor impregnating everything with an incense-like odor, thoroughly Oriental.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou