How to Use procreate in a Sentence

procreate

verb

• Animals have a natural instinct to procreate.
• If there is less of a risk, then the drive to procreate seems less pressing.
  — oregonlive, 17 Oct. 2020
• All this will help bring you back to the idea that your body belongs to you and is not just there to procreate.
  — refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2022
• Tate called for women to be stripped of the vote, barred from the workplace, and forced to procreate.
  — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
• In their offseason, the goats get to rest, recreate and procreate.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• Antillean iguanas the chance to meet and procreate in peace.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
• Men wanted to procreate and needed someone to care for those children.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• The characters mustn’t just live and breathe but bicker and brood, create and procreate.
  — Thelma Adams, Variety, 15 Jan. 2022
• On the fifth step, a vow to procreate, Balaji glanced back with a coy smile at Nidhi.
  — Abhijith Ravinutala, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
• Several of its common species, like black spruce, and jack and lodgepole pines, cannot procreate without fire.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
• In the summer, mountain pine beetles emerge from the now-dead tree in which they were born and seek a new tree nearby to procreate and lay eggs.
  — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2025
• In fact, one of the first things God says is instructing Adam and Eve to procreate.
  — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 4 Mar. 2020
• Do men who don’t procreate receive punishment from the universe?
  — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 13 May 2018
• The few fertile women are captured and forced to help wealthy families procreate.
  — Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• Advising them to wait for a better time to have a baby implies that women who are poor shouldn’t procreate.
  — Alana Semuels, TIME, 13 May 2024
• Nobody warned us how difficult this would be, to raise kids and to hold a job, as if once the truth got out there, no one would ever procreate.
  — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
• Instead, the males will just press their cloaca directly onto that of females, like the way that birds procreate.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2024
• Thus, anyone who wants to procreate will have to fill out an application and submit it directly to me.
  — Megan Amram, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• My wife, obviously, for procreating with me and being such a good life partner.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
• That means there’s no need to acknowledge a shift in younger generations’ desire to procreate.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 2 Apr. 2026
• Movement is one of our 10 life functions — on the same list as eating, sleeping and procreating.
  — Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2019
• Free markets work, which means a decision among the people in a market to procreate less must be a positive signal.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 16 May 2021
• The rush to be in a relationship, the rush to be married, the rush to be in something because that’s what you’re taught to do, to have kids or procreate.
  — Essence, 28 Aug. 2025
• The Constitution protects people’s right to choose whether and when to procreate.
  — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 28 July 2017
• In this case, Patterson said, her client has a strong interest in avoiding procreating against his will.
  — Matthew Barakat, Fortune, 9 May 2024
• Animals are thought to have developed reward systems so that they’d be driven to eat and procreate, and thus to survive.
  — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2026
• Single women, husbands, gay couples, as well as people found on any point of the gender spectrum, all have the choice to procreate — and the choice not to.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2021
• Larkin, a proto-punk, poked fun at the way humans, just by procreating, pass their worst traits to their children and beyond, through infinity.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Nov. 2025
• But the urge to face an uncertain future and procreate in the face of adversity is supposed to be part of the human condition.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2023
• The 2018 law releases the partner who doesn't want to procreate from any obligations.
  — Maria Polletta, azcentral, 23 Jan. 2020