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
• 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
• 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
• Those steps begin just days after a sperm and egg join.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 30 Sep. 2020
• 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
• Read on to see some of the best products for achieving glowing skin — sans salmon sperm.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 24 Sep. 2024
• Even when sperm is secured, there are many hurdles to cross.
  — Longreads, 19 Dec. 2024
• On the other hand, sperm can live for up to five days under the right conditions.
  — Holly Eagleson, Parents, 30 Nov. 2023
• When there’s no sperm to fertilize the egg, the uterine lining sheds, and voilà!
  — Julia Sullivan, SELF, 18 July 2024
• Several of her eggs were retrieved and fertilized using a donor's sperm.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
• During the episode, the reality star suggested that instead of using sperm banks, Malika should ask her brother Rob Kardashian to use his sperm.
  — Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 27 Feb. 2025