INCUBATE in a Sentence

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The house finch is detailed including nesting information, incubation time, egg identification along with picture and description.

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 Meanings and Examples of INCUBATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
incubate
 v.  hatch; develop under favorable conditions
Classic Sentence:
1  Snowball used as his study a shed which had once been used for incubators and had a smooth wooden floor, suitable for drawing on.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
2  On the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the beginning, and the plan which Snowball had drawn on the floor of the incubator shed had actually been stolen from among Napoleon's papers.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
3  The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the premeditation of coups d'etat.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Example Sentence:
1  Inasmuch as our supply of electricity is cut off, we shall have to rely on the hens to incubate these eggs.
2  They will then incubate the viruses in canine tissue cells to see how well they grow.
3  The time needed for the eggs to incubate is nine or ten days.
4  The babies in incubator stories became a lead item in newspapers, and on radio and TV all over the US.
5  The specialist medical team, including a midwife and experts in premature babies, have taken an incubator due to the boy's condition.
6  The house finch is detailed including nesting information, incubation time, egg identification along with picture and description.
7  Male albatrosses share in the incubation of eggs.