gestating
Example Sentences
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"The kicker is within two or three days of giving birth, they fall pregnant again so while they're rearing the first litter, they're gestating the second," Henry says.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
The couple posed for photos at the event, drawing attention to their gestating bundle of joy by framing and caressing Palvin’s belly.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
These duplicitous celebrities, so the rumor mill grinds, have hired mysterious surrogates to do their gestating work.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025
Long before the emergence of a winged protagonist who transports powerful orbs across the mysterious landscape of Cocoon, the adventure video game was an abstract computer science exercise gestating in its creator’s head.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
Never tempt me to write, for while the thing is gestating I am a brute, moody, irritable, unhappy.
From The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
