Sample Sentences forgestation (auto-selected)
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His will, it turned out, was that Emily give birth at home at twenty-six weeks' gestation.† (source)
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Their effect on Ty was as strong—he had rigged lights around the gestation floor, and he and the crew worked out there until almost eleven.† (source)
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As a fat man, I walked with the foot soldiers so as not to jounce the gestation.† (source)
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She had nearly died during his gestation and birth; his name was her thanksgiving.† (source)
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I observed her unconscious flowering, the effortless rosy bloom of her complexion, which seemed so vital and basic and life-affirming in that period of gestation in which I had no legitimate part.† (source)
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She was married now and not remotely interested in Blomkvist as anything more than a friend, but she worked in the media and had just finished a book that had been in gestation for ten years, which dealt with the image of women in the mass media.† (source)
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Gestation was six months.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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I was fourteen then, fourteen in years if they could have been called years while in that unpaced corridor which I called childhood, which was not living but rather some projection of the lightless womb itself I gestate and complete, not aged, just overdue because of some caesarean lack, some cold head-nuzzling forceps of the savage time which should have torn me free, I waited not for light but for that doom which we call female victory which it endure and then endure, without rhyme or reason or hope of reward—and then endure;† (source)
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17 O I see flashing that this America is only you and me, Its power, weapons, testimony, are you and me, Its crimes, lies, thefts, defections, are you and me, Its Congress is you and me, the officers, capitols, armies, ships, are you and me, Its endless gestations of new States are you and me, The war, (that war so bloody and grim, the war I will henceforth forget), was you and me, Natural and artificial are you and me, Freedom, language, poems, employments, are you and me, Past, present, future, are you and me.† (source)
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June When I was pregnant with Claire, I was told that I had gestational diabetes.† (source)
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* *The sperm whale, as with all other species of the Leviathan, but unlike most other fish, breeds indifferently at all seasons; after a gestation which may probably be set down at nine months, producing but one at a time; though in some few known instances giving birth to an Esau and Jacob:—a contingency provided for in suckling by two teats, curiously situated, one on each side of the anus; but the breasts themselves extend upwards from that.† (source)
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I reach up, touch the gestating lump.† (source)
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The new specialized city of specialized military men would mold a high-performing population that in traditional cities required generations to gestate.† (source)
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The gestation period lasts nine weeks, so you've got another two weeks.† (source)
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There was another demographic change, however, unforeseen and long-gestating, that did drastically reduce crime in the 1990s.† (source)
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