How to Use gestate in a Sentence

gestate

verb
Definition of gestatenext
  • And some ideas have to sit up here (pointing to the head) for a while to gestate and become ready and right.
    — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The project gestated for a couple of years, with the major work taking place since last fall.
    — Lyz Lenz, Longreads, 18 May 2017
  • The biggest space missions gestate for the longest time.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 11 June 2021
  • That is, the right enjoyed by women is a right to stop gestating, not a right to end the existence of the fetus.
    — Margot Cleveland, National Review, 31 July 2017
  • The long-gestating Sweet Valley High movie has moved on to its third writer.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 8 July 2019
  • So are there any other songs from the album that have been gestating for some time, and why did now seem the time to release them?
    — Bryan Kress, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2018
  • That would be the end of the line for that mother, her gestating calf and ultimately the species itself.
    — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The two-bedroom house took two years to build, but some of its elements have been gestating for decades.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The mothers will gestate their young for 13 months and the calf typically stays with its mother for up to two years.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Myriad life forms may gestate in a womb or sprout in soil, hatch from an egg or germinate in a corpse.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 12 May 2023
  • Also in the hopper is the long-gestating onscreen adaptation of the Half-Life video games.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The album has been gestating for years, its release delayed more than once.
    — Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The idea for An Inconvenient Sequel was gestating for years before the film came to fruition.
    — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2018
  • There are signs Iweala knew his long-gestating novel had problems.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
  • After 11 to 12 months gestating, sloths enter this world with their eyes open, all their teeth intact, and their claws fully grown.
    — Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 8 Nov. 2018
  • The group played unreleased tracks from its long-gestating next album, [USA].
    — Mosi Reeves, Billboard, 17 June 2019
  • The news that twins were gestating inside me had taken me weeks to absorb, and the sudden shift in my fate was disorienting.
    — Daniela Blei, The Cut, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Babies who gestated near a well had a reliably lower birth weight than their siblings who were not exposed to the well.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2017
  • In the meantime, Reilly’s plan to re-examine—and perhaps restrict—the use of climate models will have had a chance to gestate further.
    — Adam Federman, Wired, 15 Sep. 2020
  • That explains how a woman in Bangladesh gave birth to one baby and then had twins, who were gestating in her other uterus, nearly a month later.
    — Katherine Hobson, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
  • These animals gestate for about two weeks before giving birth to even smaller, live young.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Jan. 2023
  • African elephants, for example, already gestate for about two years—during which much can go wrong.
    — Riley Black, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
  • One baby that would stand out at the Met Gala was the fetus currently gestating inside Cardi.
    — New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • Plays usually gestate slowly, so even the most topical ones will make references that are years out of date.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The titular aliens - creatures that gestated inside humans to burst out of their victims' chests - were truly the stuff of nightmares.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 17 May 2017
  • In the decades since its release, the ideas gestated have been poorly nurtured, limiting the story’s growth while testing our patience.
    — Courtney Howard, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Before that plotline has time to gestate, a massive storm front sweeps through the valley while Amine and his folks are out on a visit, leaving Itto to fend for herself as things start to fall apart.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Last week, the New York Times officially rolled out its stand-alone audio app, which had been gestating in development for a good long while.
    — Vulture, 24 May 2023
  • The ruling, treating an embryo the same as a child or gestating fetus under the wrongful death statute, raised concerns about civil liabilities for clinics.
    — Kim Chandler, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2024
  • One study in the 1990s, for example, found that female mouse pups that had developed between two males were much less sensitive to BPA compared with female pups that had gestated between two other females.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 9 Apr. 2024

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