How do you use Incubate in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like develop or brood, plus the exact meaning.
Incubate meaning
- To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
- To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.
Using Incubate
- The main meaning on this page is: To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions. | To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.
- Useful related words include: develop, brood, hatch, cover.
- In the example corpus, incubate often appears in combinations such as: to incubate, samurai incubate, incubate africa.
Context around Incubate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Incubate
- In this selection, "incubate" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, samurai, help, industry, africa, eggs and whole stand out and add context to how "incubate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include also help incubate small businesses and days to incubate. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "incubate" sits close to words such as actinium, addington and adenauer, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with incubate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The virus takes anywhere from two to 14 days to incubate. (11 words)
When they nest, plover eggs take about a month to incubate. (11 words)
After they lay their eggs, females typically incubate them until they hatch. (12 words)
On Thursday, Samurai Incubate Africa in partnership with GrowthAfrica held a successful pitch event in Nairobi where 11 startups got a chance to pitch their solutions to a panel of judges for a chance to walk away with a cash prize of $100,000 investment. (45 words)
Halter’s vision also includes a nonprofit arm under the umbrella of the business that serves to encourage and incubate other businesses and as a funding source for start-ups of fledgling entrepreneurs who want to serve the Alton regional community. (41 words)
Freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform Captain Fresh has raised $2.3 million in pre-series A round of funding led by Ankur Capital with participation from Incubate Fund India and Silicon Valley-based angel investors. (37 words)
Are women opening their legs for their concubines under their fertile moons and luring their husbands to incubate eggs they did not fertilize? (23 words)
Example sentences (20)
Johnni Kjelsgaard, Founder & Chief Executive at GrowthAfrica (L) with Mr. Takuma Terakubo, CEO of Samurai Incubate Africa (R) with a guest during the Samurai Incubate Africa pitch challenge dubbed Africa’s Notable Startup Pitch Event.
Are women opening their legs for their concubines under their fertile moons and luring their husbands to incubate eggs they did not fertilize?
Moving forward, Viomi will cooperate with universities and professional institutions through cumulative top talents in industry, incubate whole house intelligent projects and promote the development of whole house intelligence industry.
The females of the species return to the same beach they hatched on to spawn or lay their own eggs, and bury them in sand nests to incubate for 45 to 72 days.
We provide expert coaching and consultation, build leadership capacity, incubate innovative ideas, spearhead community collaboration, advocate for policies and funding, and design and pilot programs.
Edwards, the co-founder of Chomp (which was acquired by Apple) will help incubate new product ideas in partnership with leaders across Knowledge and Information.
The park authority has mentioned that birds such as the meadow pipit and skylark are building nests on the ground to incubate eggs while lambs, foals, and calves are taking their first steps.
Biden appeared despite warnings from medical experts that his tests do not ensure he is free of the disease, which can take up to two weeks to incubate.
Freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform Captain Fresh has raised $2.3 million in pre-series A round of funding led by Ankur Capital with participation from Incubate Fund India and Silicon Valley-based angel investors.
In her research, Jordy uncovered the ability of UV lights to eliminate bacteria and viruses that incubate in classrooms.
It is essential for the spacefarers that they do not incubate any illness after they enter the organisation’s orbiting lab, the report said.
People rarely end up in A&E after falling in love so David has less evidence to support his next theory, but he speculates that the parties also helped to incubate Covid cases in another way.
The virus takes anywhere from two to 14 days to incubate.
On Thursday, Samurai Incubate Africa in partnership with GrowthAfrica held a successful pitch event in Nairobi where 11 startups got a chance to pitch their solutions to a panel of judges for a chance to walk away with a cash prize of $100,000 investment.
Research on farmers markets shows they provide economic stability since many vendors come from established farms and are less likely to relocate, and also help “incubate” small businesses in small communities like Camas.
But the shift towards partners is twofold: One is we are bringing in and trying to incubate fintechs.
Halter’s vision also includes a nonprofit arm under the umbrella of the business that serves to encourage and incubate other businesses and as a funding source for start-ups of fledgling entrepreneurs who want to serve the Alton regional community.
When they nest, plover eggs take about a month to incubate.
After they lay their eggs, females typically incubate them until they hatch.
Both males and females will incubate, with the male often incubating at night and, during the day, defending the nest territory while the female incubates.
Common combinations with incubate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to incubate 11×
- samurai incubate 3×
- incubate africa 3×
- parents incubate 3×
- incubate eggs 2×
- help incubate 2×
- incubate new 2×
- incubate in 2×
- then incubate 2×