How to Use foreskin in a Sentence

foreskin

noun

• Including this serum that was made from the foreskin of a poor, poor baby.
  — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2017
• The foreskin is then processed, packaged, and sold as a high-end anti-aging cream.
  — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 14 Aug. 2019
• In places where the disease is common and treatment is patchy, removing foreskins can be a cost-effective way to fight it.
  — The Economist, 16 Nov. 2019
• Before the foreskin serum is applied, Louise preps skin with peels, a micro-needling wand, and an electrifying mask.
  — Shannon Barbour, The Cut, 14 Mar. 2018
• There are descriptions of foreskin and Popeye-like forearms.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2022
• The religious ritual involves a rabbi sucking a small amount of blood out of an infant's wound with his mouth after the baby's foreskin has been removed.
  — Christina Capatides, CBS News, 19 July 2017
• The foreskin is collected during circumcision, at which point the stem cells are extracted through a centrifuge.
  — Maria Del Russo, Glamour, 4 May 2018
• Meanwhile, James Thomson from the University of Wisconsin managed to reprogram skin cells from a foetus and from the foreskin of a baby boy.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2011
• The growth factor used in this case is foreskin — harvested and extracted from the stem cells of a Korean newborn's circumcised foreskin.
  — Samantha Sasso, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Starting with a small square of foreskin, the fibroblasts can be multiplied to cover several football fields.
  — Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2021
• But parts of the remaining redundant foreskin were inflamed and, along with the termini of the erstwhile skin bridge, covered in what looked like a dense layer of Eastern European soot.
  — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• Smegma, a bodily secretion made up of dead skin cells and oily secretions, settles beneath the foreskin.
  — Christina Oehler, Health.com, 20 June 2019
• Furthermore, Jewish and Muslim males would be born without foreskins.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 May 2017
• Wanking, at the time, was linked to a whole host of ailments, including epilepsy and insanity, and cutting off the super-sensitive foreskin was designed to prevent them.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Mar. 2018
• A mohel, who is the rabbi performing the ritual, briefly places his mouth over the cut after removal of the foreskin of the penis and sucks out a small amount of blood, ceremonially purifying the area.
  — Bob Jordan, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2017
• In the same article, Gairdner proposes that the foreskin is far from vestigial, a term applied to features that have lost their function during evolution.
  — Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2022
• An uncircumcised infant’s foreskin is naturally tight, but will relax as the child grows.
  — Susan Reslewic Keatley, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• The probability of infection is also increased, adds Dr. Goldberg, since the foreskin has bacteria and is harder to clean.
  — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 3 Mar. 2023
• The team take specimens of brain, spinal cord, lungs, heart, kidneys, liver, spleen, muscle, bone marrow, adrenal glands, thyroid, lymph nodes, genital-tract tissues, foreskin and intestine.
  — The Economist, 31 May 2018
• In the last century and a half of American history, many claims have been made about the effects of keeping or removing one's foreskin, both passionately in favor of and passionately against it.
  — Matt Thompson, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
• Jesse’s vampire friend Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) is captured and tortured by having his foreskin repeatedly removed.
  — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 14 Aug. 2019
• For example, circumcision is an appropriate treatment for most men with cancer of the foreskin.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 2 June 2023
• The first few all involving making sure my face is super-clean — all the better to, counterintuitively, dirty it up later with Korean baby foreskin — go figure.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 16 May 2018
• Some Jewish scholars thought that uncircumcised men would prove too irresistible for Jewish women, and that men without a foreskin would not be led into constant temptation.
  — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• The foreskin can be a source of multiple medical problems in older men, thus justifying later-in-life circumcision.
  — The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• Circumcision involves surgically cutting off some or all of a penis’s foreskin.
  — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 29 Dec. 2018
• Bloodstained Men & Their Friends is a non-profit organization dedicated to giving victims of genital cutting a voice and educating Americans about the harms of infant circumcision and the importance of the foreskin.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 23 Mar. 2018
• Some medical professionals have argued the foreskin — though often seen as useless and inconvenient — may actually serve a crucial, hidden purpose.
  — Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2022
• Since babies are born with their foreskins intact, uncircumcised penises are actually the biological default.
  — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 29 Dec. 2018

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024