procreative

Example Sentences

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Several times a year, when fever or exhaustion signals that the bugs colonizing her damaged, mucus-clogged lungs are getting overly procreative, Pam heads to a clinic or hospital for IV treatment.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2022

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

Studies of the procreative dance are considered vital for helping save beleaguered coral reefs around the globe, including the Great Barrier Reef off Australia.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2016

It is obvious that the wing is not a tissue in the process of making, through which the procreative energy of the vital juices is shooting its shuttle; it is a tissue already complete.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard