How to Use sperm in a Sentence
sperm
noun
- The sperm fertilizes the egg.
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That was a very long run of jokes about Elon Musk’s sperm.
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Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Mar. 2023
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The signal below the testes is from the epididymis that stores the sperm.
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William A. Haseltine,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2022
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Now add a new crisis to the list: a shortage of crab sperm.
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Lizzie Johnson,
Washington Post,
1 July 2022
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But these embryos weren’t the product of an egg and a sperm.
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Megan Molteni,
STAT,
2 Aug. 2022
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This is shirako, the sperm sacs of cod, soft and milky as oysters.
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Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi,
New York Times,
8 May 2023
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Valdez’s sperm was found in the woman’s home, according to the suit.
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Salvador Hernandez,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Apr. 2023
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And so many years later, there is no way to trace for sperm or DNA.
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Washington Post,
13 Mar. 2020
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Donor sperm is around £1000 per vial, which is equal to one round of treatment.
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Jamie Wareham,
Forbes,
27 Mar. 2022
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There’s even a lounging form written in the meat of the fruit that might be a sperm or a vulva.
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Cate McQuaid,
BostonGlobe.com,
18 July 2023
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Instead the mice’s frozen sperm and embryos are kept ready.
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James Gorman,
New York Times,
14 Mar. 2020
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The more common health risk, however, has to do with the sperm.
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Molly Longman,
refinery29.com,
20 Apr. 2020
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Sometimes, doctors help the sperm and the egg join so adults can have a baby.
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Robin Elise Weiss, Phd,
Parents,
8 July 2024
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Olaf the toad is the first of its species to be born from previously frozen sperm.
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Lindsey McGinnis,
The Christian Science Monitor,
29 May 2020
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Matt White, one of the children fathered using Cline's sperm, helped to get the bill passed.
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Ali Pantony,
Glamour,
20 Apr. 2022
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What if men thought about their sperm like women think about their eggs?
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Claire Zillman,
Fortune,
4 Sep. 2020
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The Normans bought sperm from Xytex, and Wendy Norman gave birth to a son in 2002.
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Kate Brumback,
Star Tribune,
28 Sep. 2020
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This keeps the sperm from reaching and fertilizing the egg.
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Juliana Ukiomogbe,
ELLE,
13 July 2023
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In fact, some aren't friendly at all and may even damage sperm.
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Nicole Harris,
Parents,
2 Mar. 2024
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Those steps begin just days after a sperm and egg join.
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Kelly Servick,
Science | AAAS,
30 Sep. 2020
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Week 3: In a cycle when someone would become pregnant, the sperm and the egg meet up around the start of this week.
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Los Angeles Times,
9 Sep. 2021
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Dad was a dollop of decades-old frozen Poitou sperm from a French jack, or male donkey.
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BostonGlobe.com,
1 Oct. 2021
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Read on to see some of the best products for achieving glowing skin — sans salmon sperm.
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Anna Tingley,
Variety,
24 Sep. 2024
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On the other hand, sperm can live for up to five days under the right conditions.
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Holly Eagleson,
Parents,
30 Nov. 2023
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When there’s no sperm to fertilize the egg, the uterine lining sheds, and voilà!
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Julia Sullivan,
SELF,
18 July 2024
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The fluid usually does not have sperm in it, but that’s not always the case.
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Alyssa Hui,
Verywell Health,
23 Feb. 2023
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Her eggs were stored and then fertilized with Tauer's sperm.
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Star Tribune,
24 Apr. 2021
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Men can be seen as peripheral to the IVF process, like their job is just to give sperm.
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Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
8 Aug. 2024
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They can be frozen, or combined with sperm to create embryos first and then frozen, so the eggs can be used in the future to try for a pregnancy.
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Katie Camero,
SELF,
26 Nov. 2024
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The hormones suppress ovulation and thicken the mucus lining of the cervix, impeding sperm from reaching any egg that is released.
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Margaret Talbot,
The New Yorker,
3 Dec. 2024
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