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/dʒɪstˈeɪt/
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[ US /ˈdʒɛsˌteɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒɛsˌteɪt/ ]
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be pregnant with
She is bearing his child
The are expecting another child in January
I am carrying his child -
have the idea for
He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients
This library was well conceived
How To Use gestate In A Sentence
- Solus solitudine ego ted atque ab egestate abstuli; solus si ductem, referre gratiam numquam potes. Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
- He says, every year I get a year to kind of gestate that year. Exclusive: Richard Linklater on his 13 Year Film Project Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette – Collider.com
- I'm proud of my baby body, knowing that it gave my son a comfy vessel in which to gestate and has been the source of all his nourishment since birth.
- Male calves resulting from these matings express a higher incidence of dystocia than heifer calves because male calves are gestated longer and have considerably larger birthweights.
- I think it might be because human babies gestate slightly longer.
- The moon affects the tides, a women's monthly cycle and a mouse gestates for 28 days.
- Animals which are currently threatened with extinction may be saved by the use of frozen embryos and IVF technology which uses related species to gestate embryos.
- New ideas, images and beliefs began to gestate in what felt like a nurturing womb. Elizabeth Cunningham: Credo: Community Without Conformity
- Jodi Cleghorn is glad of her ability to gestate this column at the 11th hour, while cooking dinner, bathing her son and attempting to remain sane in the domestic maelstrom. Unsent Letter « Write Anything
- And it was a forum. [laughter] A lot of people of my generation of comics creators, writers and artists both, kind of gestated there. Comics Comics
