procreative

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

While he was a monk – not an environment renowned for procreative possibilities – he realised he wanted to have children.

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2019

Otherwise, Eufinger wrote, “no certainty can ever be obtained as to the effective functioning of the procreative organs.”

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019

Increasingly, scientists track how environmental changes can disturb the procreative dance.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2016

Rather than telling women to “avoid pregnancy” in the manner of avoiding a pothole, why are none of these assorted agencies telling men to stop having procreative sex until we know more about Zika?

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2016

One sees the same sort of procreative tendency in certain of our hardiest and coarsest weeds.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)