How to Use gestation in a Sentence

gestation

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  • The book has been in gestation for a long time.
  • The drugs are approved for use by the FDA up to 10 weeks of gestation.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 23 Feb. 2022
  • All those projects are in the very early stages of gestation.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The top new entry on the latest frame has had a 12-year gestation.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2023
  • That’s because the brain and spine begin to form within the first four weeks of gestation.
    — Ana B. Ibarra, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2024
  • At the end of four months—the normal gestation period for the species—Lola gave birth to the twin tamarins.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Compared to the mad days of their gestation there are no mysteries of shock and awe, no strut and spunk.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2024
  • About half are with a pill, which can be taken up to 12 weeks gestation, and most are done at 15 weeks or less.
    — Bob Christie, ajc, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The gestation of an elephant is nearly two years and that of a building even longer.
    — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2022
  • At the same time, the riskiest abortions are late-term, after 20 weeks of gestation.
    — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Vets can count the fetuses with X-rays over 45 days of gestation.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024
  • The telltale sign of La Niña's gestation is the spear of green that elongates and widens toward the west from the coast of South America.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2024
  • The gestation of the project goes back over a decade starting with a 2012 crowdfunding effort.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Five to seven pups are born in April after 60 to 63 days gestation.
    — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Shark pups like the ones found in the bay are usually born up to 12 months after gestation, and a litter can have up to 30 sharks.
    — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The youngest of the zoo's herd of five, Zahara is 15 months into a 22-month gestation period, the zoo announced last week.
    — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Eighty-nine percent of the procedures were performed in the first 12 weeks of gestation.
    — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
  • McDonald's first promised in 2012 to phase out the use of the crates, also known as gestation stalls, for pregnant sows.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The fetuses in the new research were at 32 to 36 weeks’ gestation, researchers said.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022
  • More than 90 percent of women who seek the procedure in the U.S. do so within the first 13 weeks of gestation.
    — Mariana Lenharo, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The gestation period of a gray squirrel is about 40 days.
    — Kelly McMasters, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Zahara, the youngest of the herd of five, is 15 months into a 22-month gestation period and is doing well, the zoo announced.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2023
  • That law, signed by Gov. Doug Ducey this year, bans most abortions after 15 weeks of gestation.
    — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Most women have abortions early on, in the first trimester of gestation.
    — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
  • That’s when the egg adheres to her uterine wall for a brief gestation before cubs weighing less than a pound are born.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2022
  • Passed in May, the ban prohibits all abortions in Texas after about six weeks' gestation.
    — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2021
  • With a gestation of 64 days, timber wolf pups arrive in Minnesota around the last week of April.
    — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 4 Feb. 2021
  • The big battle in the now decade-long war has been over gestation crates, small containment units that are used to house pregnant pigs.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The report looked at fetal deaths or stillbirths at 20 weeks gestation or more.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Panda fetuses are typically too small to be seen on an ultrasound, so pregnancy is often not confirmed until late into the gestation period or after the baby is born.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2024

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