How to Use embryo in a Sentence

embryo

noun

• Is the person or the people who those embryos belong to charged?
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
• The germ is its embryo, which has the potential to sprout into a new plant.
  — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Rd, Health, 25 Mar. 2023
• Bizarrely, most of the embryo’s long stint in utero is spent barely doing anything at all.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2023
• Some dropped their eggs in the shallow pits, and the embryos likely cooked from being too close to hot surface sand.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• The uterus transplant takes place and six months later, the embryo is implanted.
  — Williesha Morris | [e-mail], al, 2 Aug. 2023
• The medical name for the process the Ridgeways went through is embryo donation.
  — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 21 Nov. 2022
• The embryos would have otherwise been wasted when the mothers died.
  — Gareth J. Fraser, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
• The chimeric embryos were made by injecting the human stem cells into the pig embryos.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
• Few Americans relish the thought of ending the life of an embryo or fetus.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
• The treatments produced two embryos, one of which resulted in their son, now 4.
  — Yeganeh Torbati, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
• Even with perfect embryos… things don’t always go as planned.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 29 June 2023
• As a result, the contribution of human cells in the chimeric embryos Wu’s group produced was low.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
• In young frog embryos, cells in a part called the neural tube have a specific electrical charge.
  — Study Summaries, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
• Alexandra went through a lot to conceive the couple’s fourth child, including the loss of the first embryo, surgeries to get scar tissue cleared and more.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 June 2023
• Ten to 15 of those embryos — based fully on the DNA from the dog being cloned — are then implanted into the uterus of a surrogate dog.
  — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• These are a set of genes that help determine which segments of an embryo will become the head, thorax, abdomen, and so on.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2023
• The shorter brooding time probably reduces the embryo’s risk to predators skulking around to eat the eggs, such as shrimp.
  — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
• The circuit court judge dismissed the case on the grounds that an embryo stored in vitro did not count as a person under Alabama law.
  — Amy Yurkanin | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2023
• Hailstones begin as embryos, which include graupel or sleet, and then grow in size.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• Your eyes saw my embryo, and on your scroll every day was written that was being formed for me, before any one of them had yet happened.
  — Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 9 Mar. 2023
• At the point where advanced technology can detect the first visual flutter, the embryo isn't yet a fetus and does not have a heart.
  — CBS News, 16 June 2023
• The couple’s lawyers said that the embryos of more fertility patients may have been destroyed.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• This causes the uterine lining to stop thickening and to break down, detaching the embryo.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2023
• On the other hand, white rice is a type of refined rice that has been polished to remove the bran layers and embryo so only the starchy white endosperm remains, hence the name.
  — Ashley Martens, Women's Health, 9 Mar. 2023
• Andrews already had frozen embryos with Stoll at the time of her diagnosis.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
• The process involves fertilizing eggs with sperm in a lab to create embryos; at least one is then transferred to a patient’s uterus.
  — Meg Tirrell, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024
• Out of some 300 attempts, only one embryo proved viable.
  — Amanda Holpuch, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• In an instant, the machine started emitting what the woman described as the embryo’s heartbeat.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2022
• Evolution in animals is largely driven by mutations in the DNA of germ cells – the sperm and egg that fuse to form an embryo.
  — Monika Joshi, The Conversation, 1 May 2023
• If the first birth is successful and the mother desires a second child, a second embryo can be implanted in six months.
  — Williesha Morris | [e-mail], al, 2 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024