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How to use sperm in a sentence

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Sperm means the reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon. Example: “I was impregnated at a clinic but don't know who the sperm donor is.”

Examples of sperm by meaning

nounThe reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon.

  • The egg is, but the sperm does.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London...
  • Seeing the two little moving cells – the result of her egg and Luke's sperm – was incredible, and two very long weeks later the clinic confirmed I was pregnant.2012 April 13, Sarah Whitehouse, The Guardian
  • “Female may accept the sperms of male that can catapult but deplete the sperms of male that can be easily caught by her,” he said.2022 April 26, Megan Marples, “Tiny spider catapults to safety after mating to avoid sexual cannibalism”, in CNN

nounSemen; the generative substance of male animals.

  • Deer sperm was in used among the Romans as an aphrodisiac.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 227

More sentences with sperm

  • I was impregnated at a clinic but don't know who the sperm donor is.From the entry impregnate
  • Spermatoceles are intrascrotal cysts containing sperm that derive from the small tubules of the epididymis.From the entry intrascrotal
  • The sperm whale is a toothed whale.From the entry toothed
  • Sperm whales and dolphins are odontocetes.From the entry odontocete
  • The drones recorded three instances of sperm whales engaging in head ramming behavior.2026 April 13, Beth Wegerer, “Scientists Finally Catch Sperm Whales Headbutting on Camera”, in A-Z Animals. From the entry head ramming
  • Sperms are made up of oval-shaped heads and long tails that they use for mobility.2024 June 11, Dr. Steve Chapman, “Is swallowing semen good for you?”, in Better2Know. From the entry spermatozoon
  • Sea urchins, for example, release between ten and one hundred billion sperm with every ejaculation.2016, Marah J. Hardt, Sex in the Sea, →ISBN. From the entry spew
  • Men hardly seem limited by sperm production, however, given the apparent wastage of sperm.2016, Todd K. Shackelford et al., “Human Sperm Competition”, in David M. Buss, editor, The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. Volume 2.…. From the entry ejaculate
  • After the completion of copulation, the number of eupyrene sperm bundles in a spermatophore gradually decreased.2016, Mamoru Watanabe, Sperm Competition in Butterflies, page 55. From the entry eupyrene
  • Like cycads — their gymnosperm relatives — and ferns, the ginkgo produces motile sperm.2015 October 29, Dave Taft, “The Female Ginkgo Tree’s Acrid Smell of Success”, in The New York Times. From the entry gymnosperm
  • The males' sperm, unopposed by female counteradaptation, had become more and more toxic.2013, Anne Campbell, A Mind Of Her Own: The evolutionary psychology of women. From the entry counteradaptation
  • I have wasted gallons of sperm on her, yet she still has her moons.2013, “Cash”, in In Quest of the White Mandan, page 16. From the entry have one's moons
  • Kissed exchanges of period blood (the "rainbow kiss") and sperm (the "snowball") are probably acquired tastes.2010, James McConnachie, Sex, London; New York, N.Y.: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 90, column 2. From the entry rainbow kiss
  • Likewise in Batam, Singapore men are known to "buang sperm" like water over there.2004 March 2, Kilometric, “Singapore Birth Rate”, in googlegroups. From the entry buang
  • In parallel the rate of sperm hyper-, hypohaploidy and diploidy was the highest ever noted.2000, Bernardini L, Gianaroli L, Fortini D, Conte N, Magli C, Cavani S, Gaggero G, Tindiglia C, Ragni N, Venturini PL, “Frequency of…. From the entry hypohaploidy
  • To consummate their union they need to exchange packets of sperm.1997, Hilary Bradt, Guide to Madagascar, page 57. From the entry leechy
  • Thus, in general, cattle sperm are reasonably robust, but sheep much less so.1992, Colin Tudge, “The Frozen Zoo?”, in Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can be Stopped, Washington, D.C.; Covelo, Calif.…. From the entry ovine
  • Both macandrous and nannandrous species produce stephanokont sperm in specially differentiated segments of the filament called antheridia.1984, Hayden N. Pritchard, Patricia T. Bradt, Biology of nonvascular plants, page 91. From the entry stephanokont
  • It is possible that the uterine contractions speed the sperm along.1982, Carole Offir, Carole Wade, Human sexuality,, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 454. From the entry speed
  • Sperm Productions, that innocent company dragged yet again into another Schultz intempestivity.1979, James Patrick Donleavy, Schultz, Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, →ISBN, page 329. From the entry intempestivity
  • Frozen sperm banks make it possible to improve the breed of cattle, goats, chicken, even herring.1971 January 26, Lucy Kavaler, “Sperm in the Deep‐Freeze”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry sperm bank
  • An infant pigmy sperm whale was left on the waterstep of the Miami Seaquarium one night recently.1969, “The Fishermen and the Whale”, in The Drum and Croaker, volume 69, number 3, page 31. From the entry seaquarium
  • Use of sperm banks would avoid mutations induced by radiation, Dr.1961 August 29, Donald Janson, “Sperm Bank Asked For Armed Forces; Radiation Damage Feared by Nobel Prize Winner”, in The New York Times…. From the entry sperm bank
  • Iberian harvester ant queens have been observed tracking down males of a different species, a phenomenon known as sperm parasitism.2025 September 16, “Two Different Species of Ants Born From a Single Ant Queen”, in Smore Science, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2026. From the entry xenoparity
  • A sperm, or spermatozoa, is the microscopic male reproductive cell.2024 June 11, Dr. Steve Chapman, “Is swallowing semen good for you?”, in Better2Know. From the entry spermatozoon
  • Is humankind really facing "Spermageddon," a decline in sperm count that could spell the end of the species?2021 May 10, Ruth Schuster, “Spermaggedon in the West? Relax, Harvard Has Good News for You”, in Haaretz, archived from the original on 16…. From the entry spermageddon
  • The sperm passes through an outer barrier called the zona pellucida and, all being well, fuses with the egg.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 339. From the entry zona pellucida
  • Capacitation is only one example of post-ejaculatory modifications to sperm (PEMS) that are widespread throughout the animal kingdom.2019, Scott Pitnick, Mariana F Wolfner, Steve Dorus, “Post-ejaculatory modifications to sperm (PEMS)”, in Biological reviews of the…. From the entry post-ejaculatory
  • That's two orders of magnitude more than the few hundred million sperm per spew an average human bloke can dish out.2016, Marah J. Hardt, Sex in the Sea, →ISBN. From the entry spew
  • In suboptimal cases the gynaecologist takes sperm from anonymous donors.2015, Werner A. Mueller, Monika Hassel, Maura Grealy, Development and Reproduction in Humans and Animal Model Species, Springer, →ISBN…. From the entry stepfather
  • As a result of meiosis, quadrinucleate spermatids are formed, but only the nuclei of maternal origin produce sperm (Fig. 3).2015 July 9, Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin, Andrey V. Stekolshchikov, D.C. Gautam, “General trends of chromosomal evolution in Aphidococca…. From the entry quadrinucleate
  • By using highest male-specific spermatocrit as a reference value, we equalized number of sperm cells across the 48 fertilizations.2015 September 22, “Male Investments in High Quality Sperm Improve Fertilization Success, but May Have Negative Impact on Offspring…. From the entry spermatocrit
  • This is the act of stealing your sperm out of used condoms to impregnate themselves without your knowledge.2015, James McAllister, The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Business, Finance, and Life. From the entry spermjacking
  • Seventy percent of twins are fraternal and result from fertilization of two separate ova by two different sperm.2012, Leonard Crowley, An Introduction to Human Disease: Pathology and Pathophysiology Correlations, page 471. From the entry fraternal
  • At the same time the middle piece breaks down and releases the centriole, around which egg cytoplasm forms the sperm monaster.2012, Gerhard Czihak, The Sea Urchin Embryo: Biochemistry and Morphogenesis, →ISBN, page 179. From the entry monaster
  • Seminal vesical pigment is thought to derive from cellular byproducts of nonviable sperm ingested by the seminal vesical epithelium (spermatophagy).2011, Alan J. Wein, Campbell-Walsh Urology, page 2534. From the entry spermatophagy

Meaning of sperm

  1. noun The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon.
  2. noun Semen; the generative substance of male animals.
  3. noun Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti.

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Questions about sperm in a sentence

How do you use sperm in a sentence?
Sperm is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I was impregnated at a clinic but don't know who the sperm donor is.”
What is a short sentence with sperm?
“Sperm whales and dolphins are odontocetes.”
What does sperm mean?
Sperm means the reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon.

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