How to Use hymen in a Sentence

hymen

noun

• Not all women are born with hymens, and for those who are, the hymen can vary a lot in thickness.
  — Zoe Ruderman, Cosmopolitan, 19 June 2017
• The hymen, a thin fold of mucous membrane around the vaginal opening, has long been thought of as a sign of purity.
  — Rachel Jacoby Zoldan, Glamour, 4 Aug. 2020
• Some girls feel discomfort when the hymen stretches or tears, which can cause a little bleeding.
  — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 13 Oct. 2017
• The name Hymenocallis is from the Greek word hymen, which means membrane, and callos, which means beauty.
  — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2020
• The former governor also said the girl could not have been raped because her hymen was intact.
  — Tom Loftus, The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2019
• Some feel discomfort when the hymen stretches or tears, which can cause a little bleeding.
  — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 15 Jan. 2020
• No one besides you, not a hymen or another person, can 'take your virginity away'.
  — Brittney McNamara, Allure, 14 Sep. 2017
• While a very small number of people are born with a hymen that's completely closed up, most people have a small opening in their hymen already to allow things like menstrual blood through.
  — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 6 Nov. 2019
• For centuries, the state of a girl’s or woman’s hymen has been used, unscientifically, to determine virginity.
  — Sophia Jones, Marie Claire, 30 Oct. 2019
• Basically, all hymens are different, yet they're often used as a marker of virginity.
  — Brittney McNamara, Allure, 14 Sep. 2017
• Not all virgins have hymens, Vesalius later wrote in a groundbreaking book about human anatomy (which included one of the first relatively correct anatomical descriptions of the hymen).
  — Sophia Jones, Marie Claire, 30 Oct. 2019
• As well as the myths propagated around the hymen, tightness too has been associated with virginity since time immemorial.
  — Sophia Smith Galer, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2022
• The Indonesian army has ended a controversial practice of virginity tests, where doctors check the hymen of female recruits to try to determine their virginity.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
• Olson said what's actually happening is that your hymen stretches when you are penetrated.
  — Brittney McNamara, Allure, 14 Sep. 2017
• That was months after President Ashraf Ghani had promised rights activists that forensic virginity tests — an invasive examination to check whether the hymen is intact — would be abolished as an official procedure.
  — Zahra Nader and Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017
• Erroneous beliefs around vaginal tightness also contribute to the second virginity test that exists, other than a hymen examination — the ‘laxity’ test, or ‘two-finger’ test.
  — Sophia Smith Galer, refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2022
• Insert this artificial hymen into your vagina carefully.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2009
• Not all women are born with hymens, and for those who are, the hymen can vary a lot in thickness.
  — Zoe Ruderman, Cosmopolitan, 19 June 2017
• The hymen, a thin fold of mucous membrane around the vaginal opening, has long been thought of as a sign of purity.
  — Rachel Jacoby Zoldan, Glamour, 4 Aug. 2020
• Some girls feel discomfort when the hymen stretches or tears, which can cause a little bleeding.
  — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 13 Oct. 2017
• The name Hymenocallis is from the Greek word hymen, which means membrane, and callos, which means beauty.
  — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2020
• The former governor also said the girl could not have been raped because her hymen was intact.
  — Tom Loftus, The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2019
• Some feel discomfort when the hymen stretches or tears, which can cause a little bleeding.
  — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 15 Jan. 2020
• No one besides you, not a hymen or another person, can 'take your virginity away'.
  — Brittney McNamara, Allure, 14 Sep. 2017
• While a very small number of people are born with a hymen that's completely closed up, most people have a small opening in their hymen already to allow things like menstrual blood through.
  — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 6 Nov. 2019
• For centuries, the state of a girl’s or woman’s hymen has been used, unscientifically, to determine virginity.
  — Sophia Jones, Marie Claire, 30 Oct. 2019
• Basically, all hymens are different, yet they're often used as a marker of virginity.
  — Brittney McNamara, Allure, 14 Sep. 2017
• Not all virgins have hymens, Vesalius later wrote in a groundbreaking book about human anatomy (which included one of the first relatively correct anatomical descriptions of the hymen).
  — Sophia Jones, Marie Claire, 30 Oct. 2019
• As well as the myths propagated around the hymen, tightness too has been associated with virginity since time immemorial.
  — Sophia Smith Galer, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2022
• The Indonesian army has ended a controversial practice of virginity tests, where doctors check the hymen of female recruits to try to determine their virginity.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 29 Jul 2024