How to Use sperm in a Sentence

sperm

noun

• The sperm fertilizes the egg.
• The guy asks if the fuzz can trace sperm in a girl’s body.
  — James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
• The chances of the right egg meeting the right sperm — to make me — is about 1 in 400 quadrillion.
  — Charlie Coyne (age 2), Good Housekeeping, 11 May 2018
• 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
• The prostate is a gland that produces fluid to help sperm stay healthy.
  — Abby Norman, Verywell Health, 20 May 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
• The gel has been shown to suppress sperm levels for about 72 hours.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Time, 22 Dec. 2017
• Those stem cells can then be turned into sperm and eggs.
  — Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 6 Apr. 2018
• 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
• The next step is to see if the pills decrease sperm production.
  — NBC News, 19 Mar. 2018
• 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
• If all goes to plan, the cells will travel to the embryo’s gonads, transforming them so that the females produce eggs and the males produce sperm not of the host species but of the moa.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 8 July 2025
• The donor egg will now begin to divide and develop with its healthy mitochondria and the nuclear DNA from the mother’s egg and the father’s sperm.
  — Nancy Lapid, USA Today, 17 July 2025