Sample sentences for GESTATION

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Definition

the period during which an embryo develops (about 9 months in humans)

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the conception and development of an idea or plan

Elephants have about a 21 month gestation.

Rabbits have about a one month gestation.
She has several projects in various states of gestation.
The study found a greater risk of low bone density in adults born with a gestation period of less than 37 weeks.
The building was two years in gestation.
This is the gestation of the nineteenth century.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
I reach up, touch the gestating lump.
Ellen Hopkins -- Glass
And did I want the Celestial Kingdom, anyway, where women are relegated to polygamy and procreation, gestating new souls to fill earthbound bodies?
Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
There was another demographic change, however, unforeseen and long-gestating, that did drastically reduce crime in the 1990s.
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner -- Freakonomics
He had been born of a miraculous conception, after a gestation of twelve years; his body being that of a serpent, with human arms and the head of an ox.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
June When I was pregnant with Claire, I was told that I had gestational diabetes.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
Jenny was twenty-one weeks into the pregnancy, barely halfway through the forty-week gestation period.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
Gestation was six months.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
"The gestation period lasts nine weeks, so you've got another two weeks.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
As a fat man, I walked with the foot soldiers so as not to jounce the gestation.
Maxine Hong Kingston -- The Woman Warrior
She had nearly died during his gestation and birth; his name was her thanksgiving.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
The new specialized city of specialized military men would mold a high-performing population that in traditional cities required generations to gestate.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
When we come to the phenomena of artistic conception, artistic gestation, and artistic reproduction I require a new terminology and a new personal experience.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
I can't be regular and easy about it when I'm caught by a big experiment, any more than you could be regular and easy and polite when you were gestating the baby.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
I should like to be of use as a doctor or a farmer and at the same time to be gestating something lasting, something fundamental, to be writing some scientific paper or a literary work.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago

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