How to Use gestation in a Sentence

gestation

noun

• The book has been in gestation for a long time.
• Anna’s gestation will lead to two (re)births: this child and Anna’s future.
  — Robert Daniels, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2021
• My son was born at only 23 weeks gestation, right on the edge of viability.
  — Star Tribune, 18 May 2021
• Each new novel’s gestation and critical reception is logged, but there’s far, far more of the writer than the writing in these pages.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2021
• Current Ohio law bans abortions after 20 weeks gestation.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2021
• The project, which had been in a creative gestation period for two years, is now officially in development.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2021
• When he was born at just under five months’ gestation, Justin Douglas Jr. wasn’t expected to survive.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], al, 26 May 2021
• The blowup between Greenwald and the Intercept had a long gestation, people at the publication say.
  — Washington Post, 21 May 2021
• She was born in Syracuse, New York, at 27 weeks, far shy of the typical gestation period of 40 weeks.
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 28 Apr. 2021
• Some good news: The percentage of infants born small and premature — at less less than 37 weeks of gestation — fell slightly, to 10%, after rising five years in a row.
  — Mike Stobbe, Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2021
• The drugs are approved for use by the FDA up to 10 weeks of gestation.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], 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
• 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 report defines extreme preterm birth as when a baby is born before reaching 28 weeks gestation.
  — Ruth Cronin, The Enquirer, 11 July 2024
• With Iowa, eighteen states in total will laws banning nearly all abortions prior to six weeks gestation.
  — Jason Clayworth, Axios, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024