How to Use menstruation in a Sentence

menstruation

noun
  • Access to free supplies is one of the group’s goals, as is improving public policies about menstruation.
    Mikala Kane, courant.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Normal variation in blood flow during menstruation is the most prevalent cause of pink discharge.
    Wendy Wisner, Health, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The bloc has pledged to remove all taxes on menstruation products by 2022.
    Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
  • As a result, there can be a misconception around what menstruation is for anyone who is not a cisgender woman.
    NBC News, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Protest is a major motif, and audience members will spend part of their time reading slogans on topics ranging like gun violence and menstruation.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Cis women who can't menstruate and trans women are harmed by the assumption that menstruation defines femininity.
    Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2019
  • But Traverso says that the team is planning to hone their device to release hormones for three weeks, then taper off to allow for menstruation, reports Neergaard.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 5 Dec. 2019
  • This will go a long way in demystifying periods and in tackling menstruation illiteracy that thrives in a shroud of secrecy and silence.
    Ciku Kimeria, Quartz Africa, 26 Feb. 2020
  • School attendance for girls worldwide drops precipitously around puberty, and though there are a number of reasons, menstruation is a major factor.
    Time, 21 Oct. 2019
  • With little to no information around women's health available in schools, 70% of girls in Ethiopia won’t even know about menstruation before their first period.
    Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Always is officially removing the Venus female symbol from the packing of its menstruation products.
    Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2019
  • In India, approximately 1 in 5 girls drops out of school after starting menstruation.
    Time, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Endometrial cancer occurs in the uterine lining, also called the endometrium, which is shed monthly during menstruation.
    Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Next up is menopause, the moment one year after the last menstruation.
    Amy Larocca, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • This is not the first time Florida schools have been in hot water over the topic of menstruation.
    Simrin Singh, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Changes in menstruation weren’t listed as a side effect of the vaccines.
    Alice Broster, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Blockers were a way of, say, keeping a 5-year-old from the trauma of early menstruation.
    Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021
  • As with many aspects of women’s health, there is a lack of data on menstruation.
    Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Here's how parents can make menstruation a lot less scary for their children.
    Ellen Sturm Niz, Parents, 6 June 2023
  • The endometrium, which lines the uterus and is shed during menstruation, has also been linked to the immune system.
    Knvul Sheikh, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2022
  • During menstruation, the inner membrane of the uterus (known as the endometrium) is shed.
    Holly Eagleson, Parents, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The taboo nature of talking about menstruation is changing with young women, at least in the United States.
    Susan Powers, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Suspicions about tear gas and menstruation first came up more than a decade ago, during the Arab Spring protests, Jordt noted.
    Heather Murphy New York Times, Star Tribune, 3 May 2021
  • Research shows it’s not uncommon for women to have periods marked by three or more days of heavy flow as they near the end of the menstruation line.
    Selene Yeager, Good Housekeeping, 29 June 2021
  • Some jurisdictions in the United States are moving the same way, but there’s more to be done in making menstruation fair.
    Popular Science, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The divergence in Bengal could be seen in the menstruation pavilion.
    Suhasini Raj Atul Loke, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The work, part of a makeshift pavilion to worship the Hindu goddess Durga, was designed to break taboos in India about menstruation.
    Suhasini Raj Atul Loke, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • What is clear, though, is that symptoms can flare before and during menstruation.
    Stephanie Watson, SELF, 29 Sep. 2021
  • But menstruation isn't the only indication that stature growth has stopped or will stop soon.
    Maria Carter, Parents, 5 July 2023
  • In ancient Rome it was thought to increase milk and sperm volume, and well as stimulate menstruation.
    Beth Segal, cleveland, 11 Mar. 2021

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