How to Use sperm in a Sentence

sperm

noun

• The sperm fertilizes the egg.
• That was a very long run of jokes about Elon Musk’s sperm.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2023
• The signal below the testes is from the epididymis that stores the sperm.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• Now add a new crisis to the list: a shortage of crab sperm.
  — Lizzie Johnson, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
• But these embryos weren’t the product of an egg and a sperm.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Aug. 2022
• This tube carries sperm out the tip of the arm and into the female.
  — Tik Root, Time, 21 Aug. 2019
• This is shirako, the sperm sacs of cod, soft and milky as oysters.
  — Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi, New York Times, 8 May 2023
• Valdez’s sperm was found in the woman’s home, according to the suit.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• The hermaphrodites, which produce both eggs and sperm at once, are the true solo act of the worm world.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
• Overall, the more motile sperm a man in the study had, the longer he was expected to live.
  — Simon Spichak, Health, 27 Mar. 2025
• And so many years later, there is no way to trace for sperm or DNA.
  — Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2020
• Donor sperm is around £1000 per vial, which is equal to one round of treatment.
  — Jamie Wareham, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
• There’s even a lounging form written in the meat of the fruit that might be a sperm or a vulva.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
• Instead the mice’s frozen sperm and embryos are kept ready.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020
• The more common health risk, however, has to do with the sperm.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2020
• Salmon sperm facials are much newer to the scene than snail mucin.
  — Sam Delgado, Vox, 17 Mar. 2025
• Sometimes, doctors help the sperm and the egg join so adults can have a baby.
  — Robin Elise Weiss, Phd, Parents, 8 July 2024
• Olaf the toad is the first of its species to be born from previously frozen sperm.
  — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2020
• But in the austral spring, the rear of their bodies turn into sacks of egg or sperm.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• Matt White, one of the children fathered using Cline's sperm, helped to get the bill passed.
  — Ali Pantony, Glamour, 20 Apr. 2022
• What if men thought about their sperm like women think about their eggs?
  — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2020
• The Normans bought sperm from Xytex, and Wendy Norman gave birth to a son in 2002.
  — Kate Brumback, Star Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
• This keeps the sperm from reaching and fertilizing the egg.
  — Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 13 July 2023
• In fact, some aren't friendly at all and may even damage sperm.
  — Nicole Harris, Parents, 2 Mar. 2024
• Our task: document whether the coral below sent up a cloud of eggs and sperm.
  — Brianna Randall, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
• Those steps begin just days after a sperm and egg join.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 30 Sep. 2020
• By contrast, the cost to collect and freeze sperm is often less than $1,000.
  — Caitlin Granfield, miamiherald, 25 May 2018
• Week 3: In a cycle when someone would become pregnant, the sperm and the egg meet up around the start of this week.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• Dad was a dollop of decades-old frozen Poitou sperm from a French jack, or male donkey.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• Suleman used the sperm of a platonic friend to fertilize her eggs.
  — Janine Rubenstein, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025