procreative

Example Sentences

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Many investors have come to appreciate the relative stability offered by a commodity once dismissed by the billionaire Warren Buffett as "lifeless" and "neither of much use nor procreative".

From BBC • May 12, 2025

Davis School of Law, said courts had generally taken three approaches to contested embryos by enforcing previous agreements, balancing the procreative interests of the parties, or by trying to get them to agree.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2023

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

In ancient Rome a dove or pigeon was the emblem of the female procreative energy, and frequently a legendary spirit, the accompaniment of Venus.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey