How to Use ovulate in a Sentence

ovulate

verb

• A week after the pandemic forced the National Zoo to close, on March 14th, Mei began to ovulate.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2020
• Females ovulate once a month, meaning one, count 'em, one egg is released.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2011
• Rape victims are not less likely to ovulate or get pregnant.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2013
• However, with the mini-pill, about half the people taking it still ovulate.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
• Mothers would stop lactating and start ovulating again, giving the marauding male a chance to spread his genes.
  — Blake Edgar, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
• Both of these types of pills work to shift your natural hormone levels in order to interrupt the normal signaling in your brain that tells your ovaries when to ovulate.
  — Women's Health, 20 June 2023
• The hormones do more than control when women — or trans men, nonbinary people and others who ovulate — can get pregnant.
  — Caroline Hopkins, NBC News, 17 July 2022
• Typically in a menstrual cycle, one follicle ovulates one egg in about a month.
  — Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2023
• The sensors are being used to deliver more precise ovulation tracking and forecasting for those who ovulate.
  — Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
• Women who ingest multivitamins with folic acid regularly have been found to ovulate more (release eggs).
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2022
• Courtney, 32, has irregular periods and fails to ovulate, and the couple has opted for a less invasive type of fertility treatment called ‘ovulation induction’.
  — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2023
• That is because menopause occurs when your body stops ovulating.
  — Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 14 Aug. 2025
• That means that during the follicular phase, your body is getting ready to ovulate.
  — Wendy Wisner, Health, 17 July 2025