How to Use fertilization in a Sentence

fertilization

noun

• Over-fertilization can cause plants to grow leggy and can even kill them.
  — Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2016
• That cross-fertilization may just need a little longer to come to fruition.
  — Mat Ombler, Wired, 4 Nov. 2021
• Wait about a month after the bloom to restart the fertilization.
  — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 21 Jan. 2026
• Here are his nine easy-to-follow rules for lawn fertilization.
  — Brett Martin, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2023
• The fertilization helps green up the lawn as long as the roots and blades have developed.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 6 May 2022
• In mammals, fertilization occurs when a sperm cell swims out to fuse with an egg.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2018
• Stop fertilization and bring the plant inside before the first frost.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2025
• The embryos that came as a result of their in vitro fertilization were all male.
  — Mikelle Street, Them., 5 Aug. 2025
• Still, the fertilization didn’t take.
  — Phineas Rueckert, Longreads, 3 Mar. 2026
• Clover, as a nitrogen-fixer, does not need fertilization to grow well, but your grass does.
  — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 6 June 2026
• Pampas grass is easy to grow, and plants rarely need watering or fertilization.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2023
• Cities are promising to cover the cost of in vitro fertilization.
  — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
• Learn the best winter fertilization practices for your lawn type and give your lawn a boost this winter to keep it healthy all year.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2025
• Haas gave birth to a boy through in vitro fertilization in 2008.
  — Arpan Lobo, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2023
• Calla lilies thrive even in poor-quality soil and do not require fertilization when grown in the garden.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 27 May 2026
• The couple is trying to have a baby and needs to rely on in-vitro fertilization to do so.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2023
• After both sperm and egg retrieval, fertilization occurs, the goal of which is a healthy embryo.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 6 May 2022
• Late or excessive fertilization will produce more buds and growth than the plant can sustain, and the buds will drop.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026
• If fertilization is successful, the seedpods will develop and ripen in a few weeks to a few months.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 20 July 2017
• The fourth type, the common fig, is parthenocarpic, meaning the fruit forms without fertilization.
  — oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2021
• When April hits and spawning season begins the milt is shipped back here to begin the fertilization process.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 27 Sep. 2022
• In the winner-takes-all game of fertilization, millions of sperm race toward the egg that’s waiting at the finish line.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2017
• Each style connects to its own ovary within the flower, serving to direct the sperm-laden pollen to the right place for fertilization.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 June 2026
• To help encourage more of that sperm to be used for fertilization instead of food, the sperm-donor snail has another trick up its sleeve.
  — Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
• Some species exchange sperm via internal fertilization and then lay egg capsules in or on the ground, Ducey says.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 15 July 2017
• In the wild, fertilization happens as the eggs and sperm from different colonies meet each other in the water column.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Dec. 2021
• If fertilization happens, the egg will continue its journey to the uterus and can implant on that lining.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 28 June 2018
• The researchers complete the fertilization in the lab, then transplant larvae onto needy reefs.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
• As a result, the rates of egg fertilization also dropped after the first 10 matings.
  — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
• The next challenge was to achieve fertilization in the lab with frozen semen collected from three northern white rhino bulls.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 4 July 2018