How to Use gestation in a Sentence

gestation

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  • The book has been in gestation for a long time.
  • All those projects are in the very early stages of gestation.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The top new entry on the latest frame has had a 12-year gestation.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Compared to the mad days of their gestation there are no mysteries of shock and awe, no strut and spunk.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2024
  • About half are with a pill, which can be taken up to 12 weeks gestation, and most are done at 15 weeks or less.
    — Bob Christie, ajc, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The gestation of an elephant is nearly two years and that of a building even longer.
    — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The gestation of the project goes back over a decade starting with a 2012 crowdfunding effort.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The youngest of the zoo's herd of five, Zahara is 15 months into a 22-month gestation period, the zoo announced last week.
    — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The fetuses in the new research were at 32 to 36 weeks’ gestation, researchers said.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The gestation period of a gray squirrel is about 40 days.
    — Kelly McMasters, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Zahara, the youngest of the herd of five, is 15 months into a 22-month gestation period and is doing well, the zoo announced.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2023
  • That law, signed by Gov. Doug Ducey this year, bans most abortions after 15 weeks of gestation.
    — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
  • That’s when the egg adheres to her uterine wall for a brief gestation before cubs weighing less than a pound are born.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2022
  • The young are born after a 46-day gestation period, though as with all lagomorphs, this is not locked in.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • No matter when the court date is, no matter when the ban goes into effect gestation doesn’t stop.
    — Essence, 30 Sep. 2023
  • At the time, Ohio allowed abortions up to 22 weeks gestation unless a woman's life was at stake.
    — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • This law keeps the requirement for two in-person visits but would shrink the time frame for those visits to week six of gestation.
    — Caroline Catherman Orlando Sentinel (tns), al, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Even as Moore was writing, a third business model that scaled was in gestation.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Once cows become pregnant, gestation lasts about a year and the calf will then nurse from its mother for one to two years, Save the Manatees says.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Second, the gestation period for new ideas is too long.
    — Rakesh Kumar, Fortune, 13 June 2023
  • But the casino license’s long gestation didn’t blunt criticism that City Hall has been too hasty in trying to get it through the council.
    — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2022
  • That means abortions are legal in Ohio through 20 weeks gestation or 21 weeks and six days after the last period − at least for now.
    — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2022
  • In 2016, the agency extended its use through ten weeks gestation.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Females give birth to one calf every three to four years and gestation periods can last between 15 to 16 months.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Birth defects are the leading cause of infant deaths, followed by preterm births (before 37 weeks’ gestation) and low birth weight.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Since the work’s gestation overlapped with the height of the AIDS crisis, it could also be seen as a portrait of an entire community.
    — Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • McDonald’s pledged to avoid the use of gestation crates for pregnant pigs entirely by 2024.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Her water broke at 17½ weeks’ gestation, sending her to the emergency room.
    — Laura Ungar, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Her water broke at 17 1/2 weeks’ gestation, sending her to the emergency room.
    — Laura Ungar and Heather Hollingsworth, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Both mothers were around 25 weeks of gestation when exposed to the virus, and neither were vaccinated.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 6 Apr. 2023

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