How to Use incubate in a Sentence

incubate

verb
Definition of incubatenext
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  • The virus will incubate in the body for several days before the patient experiences any symptoms.
  • The baby emerges from an egg incubated in its mother’s pouch for about 10 days.
    — Danielle Beurteaux, National Geographic, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The disease incubates for an average of between seven and 10 days.
    — oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The beauty and the challenges of incubating future generations is hard work.
    — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • After being incubated, seven of those cells matured and were suitable for fertilization.
    — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
  • And a rural enterprise program in local villages teaches small business skills, from marketing to finance, and incubates the most promising projects.
    — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2019
  • In recent years, swarms of mosquitoes, incubated by warming temperatures, have driven many of the reindeer away from their regular route.
    — New York Times, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The place is a toxic blend of those intent on incubating ISIS' ideology and those who want to leave their past behind.
    — Arwa Damon and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The eggs incubate for 60 days and crack open in the fourth week of January.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The eggs then incubate in warm sand for roughly 60 days, the agency says.
    — Fox News, 22 July 2022
  • Elmer and Lima were given a chance to incubate the egg.
    — NBC News, 2 Feb. 2022
  • To make the xenobots, the researchers scraped living stem cells from frog embryos and left them to incubate.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The protocol required at least two eggs to be left in the nests for the local birds to incubate.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2021
  • After incubating the egg for five months, the pup hatched.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The birds’ eggs are the largest of any species in proportion to their body size; females incubate their eggs for 75 to 90 days.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2021
  • For instance, some fish, like lake whitefish, spawn in the fall in nearshore areas of the lakes where the eggs incubate over the winter.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Netflix was the first app available on Roku and helped incubate the business.
    — Patience Haggin, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The chefs and sous chefs of shuttered restaurants have taken this year to incubate new ideas.
    — Erik Oberholtzer, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Taking that time to incubate yourself to be ready for this world.
    — Essence, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The male and female are taking turns and sometimes squabbling over who will incubate the eggs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The hens will eventually incubate their four eggs and raise young within 150 yards of the singing grounds.
    — Tom Fegely, Field & Stream, 13 Apr. 2020
  • So if the test was done when the infection was still incubating, the test may turn out to be negative.
    — Catherine Ho, SFChronicle.com, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The virus can incubate for days before a test will uncover it.
    — Calvin Woodward and Jill Colvin, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Polio, which took six to 20 days to incubate, stayed contagious for as many as two weeks.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 8 June 2020
  • To that end, the spin out is also a big move for SpringHill, which incubated the company since its launch last summer.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Apr. 2023
  • In an attempt to save the chicks, keepers may swap a dummy egg for a real one and give it to a more successful pair to incubate.
    — NBC News, 2 Feb. 2022
  • According to a news release, the zoo has relied on foster couples to incubate eggs in the past.
    — Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Researchers mix the blood samples with the Omicron pseudovirus in lab dishes and incubate them.
    — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The team is currently incubating additional eggs, so more baby tegus may be on the way.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 18 June 2024
  • These animal fathers, who all represent egg-laying species, help out by either incubating, protecting, or otherwise shepherding offspring out of a shell and into the wide-open world.
    — Ben Guarino, Popular Science, 13 June 2024

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