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How to use fertility in a sentence

37 example sentences · noun

Fertility means the condition, or the degree, of being fertile. Example: “Muckspreading increases the fertility of the soil.”

Examples of fertility by meaning

nounThe condition, or the degree, of being fertile.

  • Muckspreading increases the fertility of the soil.
  • Men may also have fertility challenges, especially if their hypogonadism was caused by anabolic steroid use.2018 June 25, James Roland, “What is Hypergonadism?”, in Healthline

More sentences with fertility

  • In America the fertility rate of recent immigrants tends to be higher than that of native population.From the entry fertility rate
  • In most industrialized countries the fertility rate has dropped well below replacement rate.From the entry fertility rate
  • Despite fertility treatment, one out of three women in the study remained unimpregnable.From the entry unimpregnable
  • Unlike chimpanzees, whose females have bright red swollen buttocks when ovulating, females in humans evolved to have concealed ovulation, and do not have any perceptible signs that indicate their fertility.From the entry concealed ovulation
  • Bi's fertility doctor strongly discouraged that because of risks to the babies and surrogate.2025 September 3, Emi Nietfeld, Wired, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2025. From the entry twibling
  • It doesn't mean that everyone who is CNBC has undergone fertility treatments, but a lot have.2023 June 19, Ashley Maier, “The Cruelty of Natalism”, in Psychology Today, New York, N.Y.: Sussex Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry CNBC
  • Furlough fertility was a big discussion among federal workers in D.C. during government shutdowns.2020 March 23, Petula Dvorak, “Will coronavirus intimacy lead to a baby boom? Or a divorce tsunami?”, in The Washington Post, Washington…. From the entry coronababy
  • Additionally, the bio-genealogical imperative is realized by fertility science in other familiar ways.2019, Frances J. Latchford, Steeped in Blood: Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family. From the entry dibling
  • Antinatalism is a negative view toward human fertility (and perhaps the fertility of other sentient life forms).2015, Todd K. Shackelford, Ranald D. Hansen, The Evolution of Morality, Springer, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry antinatalism
  • The soil should be of poor or average fertility and well drained.2005, Marianne Binetti, Don Williamson, “Dwarf Morning Glory: Convolvulus”, in Best Garden Plants for British Columbia, Edmonton, Alta.…. From the entry dwarf morning glory
  • Egyptian princesses were buried with sacred bulls to promote princessian fertility.1998, Jhan Hochman, Green Cultural Studies: Nature in Film, Novel, and Theory, University of Idaho Press, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry princessian
  • In hunting or agrarian societies dependent upon nature, femaleness was honored as an immanent principle of fertility.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry femaleness
  • Progeny were closely culled and crossbacked with emphasis on fertility, mothering ability, and gain ability.1974, Farmers' Bulletin, page 21. From the entry crossback
  • Otherwise, they say, mankind will become extinct through lack of fertility.c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden…. From the entry clamor
  • In the southern United States, the baculums of raccoons— nicknamed Texas toothpicks—are considered signs of luck and fertility.2016, Ann Downer, The Animal Mating Game, →ISBN. From the entry Texas toothpick
  • In the context of FERG, risk assessment was used to estimate the burden of dioxin-related hypothyroidy and impaired fertility.2015 December 4, “Methodological Framework for World Health Organization Estimates of the Global Burden of Foodborne Disease”, in PLOS…. From the entry hypothyroidy
  • Physical methods are sometimes used to reduce or eliminate fertility.2013, Russell F. Reidinger with James E. Miller, Wildlife Damage Management: Prevention, Problem Solving & Conflict Resolution, Baltimore…. From the entry addling
  • It keeps in the good: the wimmin, their fertility.1980 February 16, Kore J. Sapphire, “The Politics of Valentines”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 29, page 11. From the entry averter
  • The bill seeks to make IVF treatment more affordable by mandating coverage for fertility treatments under employer-sponsored insurance and certain public insurance plans.2024 June 13, Clare Foran and Ted Barrett, “Senate GOP blocks bill to guarantee access to IVF nationwide”, in CNN. From the entry mandate
  • Britain, in common with many other developed nations, is experiencing a sharp new slump in fertility, the full extent of which remains unclear.2021 April 2, Colin Brazier, “Britain's Covid baby bust is bleak news”, in The Spectator, London: Press Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry coronababy
  • The acrocentric chromosome restored fertility even in monosomic condition, in contrast to chromosome 6H ch S which only fully restored fertility when present in homozygosis.2015 July 21, “Contribution of Chromosomes 1H ch S and 6H ch S to Fertility Restoration in the Wheat msH1 CMS System under Different…. From the entry homozygosis
  • The artisans were lower-caste men who drew upon earlier rural traditions to carve fertility nymphs (yakshis) and male nature spirits (yakshas) around the stupas.2009, Sita Anantha Raman, Women in India: A Social and Cultural History. From the entry yakshi
  • The baby boomlet was a period marked by increases in the number of women of childbearing age and increases in fertility rates of those women.2002, Laura E. Hill, Hans P. Johnson, Understanding the Future of Californians' Fertility, page 87. From the entry baby boomlet
  • Liz Buttle, Britain's oldest birther, lied about not taking fertility drugs and didn't conceive her 2-month-old boy in the usual way as she insisted.1998 January 22, “Paper Disputes Claims of Oldest Brit to Deliver”, in Philadelphia Inquirer, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2012…. From the entry birther
  • ASIATIC civilization is the product of “Mesopotamias”, of great alluvial plains where the natural fertility of the soil stimulated man’s agricultural vocation.1952, René Grousset, “Chinese Earth”, in The Rise and Splendour of the Chinese Empire, University of California Press, published 1970…. From the entry Central Plain
  • The cult of the fertility goddess Frig is sufficiently proved by the occurrence of her name in the Old English Frigedæg, the modern Friday.1943, F[rank] M[erry] Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford, Oxon: At the Clarendon Press, page 98. From the entry frig
  • Your kids are likely still very young, if you have them — many my age are exchanging fertility doctor recs the way we used to hype new bands.2025 December 3, Lizzy Goodman, “Lily Allen’s West End Girl Midlife Crisis Is Inspiring”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry rec
  • That is why they are attributed with trimorphic character, probably dedicated to the goddess Reitia, who is compared to Hecate, the keymistress of death and resurrection, fertility, etc.2018, Martina Blečić Kavur, “Pectoral Pendants from Grobnik in the Context of the Iron Age Symbol Aesthetics”, in Histria archaeologica…. From the entry keymistress
  • And when Congo had been emptied of masks with cutout eyes and old wooden bowls and long-phallused fertility figures, he turned his thoughts to local stone sculpture.2009, Petina Gappah, An Elegy for Easterly, Faber and Faber, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry phallused
  • "The Chinese are much addicted to the doctrine of signatures," writes one author, which creates relationships on visual physical grounds (such as equivalating the seed-laden pomegranate with fertility).2008, Patricia Bjaaland Welch, Chinese art: a guide to motifs and visual imagery, page 12. From the entry equivalate
  • Immigration and differential fertility behaviour of immigrants may lead to a substantial demographic substitution of the authochthone by the allochthone population in specific urban areas or regions.2005, Dragana Avramov, R. L. Cliquet, Integrated Policies on Gender Relations, Ageing and Migration in Europe, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry allochthone
  • In Ireland, land became scarce relative to the rapidly growing population in the early nineteenth century, whereupon fertility began a retreat to its low, prepotato level.1997, The St. Croix Review, volume 30, page 32. From the entry prepotato
  • Therefore it is not surprising that little lakelore has developed and that most of the fertility ceremonies are connected with agriculture and almost none with fishing.1978, Haryati Soebadio-Noto Soebagio, Carinne A. du Marchie Sarvaas, Dynamics of Indonesian history, North-Holland, page 45. From the entry lakelore
  • A group of Harvard researchers stated that the study was based on "questionable assumptions", such as the belief that sperm count alone is an accurate predictor of overall male fertility.2022 November 5, Ellie Austin, “Why are so many young men freezing their sperm?”, in The Times, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2023. From the entry spermageddon
  • To be sure, since NFP is a "morally licit" form of fertility control for Catholics, and many pro-life activists are very orthodox Catholics, NFP is attractive on those grounds alone.1984, Kristin Luker, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 210. From the entry NFP

Meaning of fertility

  1. noun The condition, or the degree, of being fertile.
  2. noun The birthrate of a population; the number of live births per 1000 people per year.
  3. noun The average number of births per woman within a population.

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Questions about fertility in a sentence

How do you use fertility in a sentence?
Fertility is used as a noun. For example: “Muckspreading increases the fertility of the soil.”
What is a short sentence with fertility?
“Muckspreading increases the fertility of the soil.”
What does fertility mean?
Fertility means the condition, or the degree, of being fertile.

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