gestate

Example Sentences

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“This is the continuation of a long gestating effort to remove this sheriff from office.”

From Seattle Times

SZA also decided that, to fully gestate “SOS,” she needed to shed her dependencies.

From Los Angeles Times

That would be the end of the line for that mother, her gestating calf and ultimately the species itself.

From Scientific American

There's a vast chasm between the scale of revulsion that met Madonna's altered visage and the perturbation over Rihanna refusal to somersault while gestating a human being.

From Salon

Mothers not only gestate us and grant us introduction to life, but they can keep giving it to us throughout their years.

From Los Angeles Times