How to Use reproduce in a Sentence

reproduce

verb
  • Salmon return to the stream to reproduce offspring.
  • The virus is able to reproduce itself very rapidly.
  • They haven't been able to reproduce the results of the first experiment.
  • Sound effects can reproduce the sound of thunder.
  • The concert will be reproduced on compact disc.
  • Two groups reproduce in the fall in the center of the Baltic or in the western Baltic.
    Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Next the fungus kills the host and uses it to reproduce.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
  • This means the bears are active year-round and able to mate and reproduce at any time.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The bears bulk up not just to survive, but to reproduce.
    Emily M. Eng, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Most would soon die, and few at this age would even be able to reproduce.
    Heide Brandes, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Plants have one goal — to reproduce, and to do so widely.
    Michaela Mulligan, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
  • The trick to reproducing this in gluten-free baking is to create a dough that’s sticky and thick enough to do the same.
    Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Bees and ants reproduce quickly–a queen can lay up to thousands of eggs in a day.
    Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Lab tests showed that the virus can reproduce in fat tissue.
    CBS News, 26 Dec. 2022
  • That’s because the worms are able to reproduce without a mate.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 5 Apr. 2022
  • James Ford reproduced it and helped put the final touches on it.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2023
  • The result is that these rivers are not cold enough for salmon to reproduce and not high enough to help baby salmon swim back to the ocean.
    Nicole Norman, CNN, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Again, the speaker can't reproduce the deepest sub-bass lows.
    PCMAG, 16 May 2024
  • The drivers have no problem reproducing the sub-bass at the 34-second mark of a Kendrick Lamar track.
    PCMAG, 15 July 2024
  • So the more cicadas emerge together, the better the odds that more will live on to reproduce and pass along their genes.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Most small groups of stragglers get snapped up and don’t survive to reproduce.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Pain-pleasure inverts that eat and reproduce would pass on their genes just as well as us.
    Philip Goff, Scientific American, 3 July 2024
  • Despite this, the mouse was able to reproduce normally with a male.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The drop in fat could affect when purple martins are able to reproduce.
    Jill Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Sparks went looking for projects that could reproduce that success—with her name on the cover.
    William Tipper, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The females reproduce under the shell cover and the nymphs (crawlers) emerge in the spring and summer from their covers and attach themselves to the cane to feed.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Humpback whales travel up the coast of Australia to reproduce.
    Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 30 June 2023
  • Studies of the samples’ guts, gonads and eggs help determine how much the fish eat and reproduce.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
  • No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Since their reproductive genes tend to mutate faster, the right dose can leave them relatively unfazed but unable to reproduce.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024

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