How to Use sphincter in a Sentence

sphincter

noun

• But his swallowing tube was wide open and the tissue around the sphincter was red and swollen.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• Your rectum is designed to keep poop in with help from a muscle called the anal sphincter.
  — Lindsey Lanquist, SELF, 12 Mar. 2018
• Who are these people, the people with the clipboards and white coats and tight sphincters, who get to decide?
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2024
• But any muscle in the body can get fatigued and fail to do its job; the anal sphincter is no exception.
  — Jessica Migala, Health, 6 Aug. 2023
• So that your urine can be released out of your body, the sphincter muscles around the urethra relax.
  — Jessica Migala, Health.com, 22 Feb. 2022
• Your muscles relax—all of them, down to your sphincter—which leads to things like free-flowing urine and feces.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2022
• But things that do end up getting stuck tend to do so at the sphincter muscle valve that separates the small and large intestines.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2017
• Most of the time, however, your external sphincter is to blame.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 12 Feb. 2024
• Those are probably marks from the anal sphincter, Chin explains.
  — Karen Wright, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• All this time, sphincter muscles in the pelvic floor that surround the urethra are keeping your bladder from leaking all over the place.
  — Kasandra Brabaw, Health.com, 25 Aug. 2020
• Part of what Kelley does is based on math, but part of it is designed strictly to tighten the sphincters of the people on the other sideline.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Unlike rectal cancer, which forms in the rectum or colon, anal cancer forms on the anal canal, near the sphincter muscles.
  — Christina Oehler, Health.com, 5 June 2019
• Both sizes offer neck spirals, helping to keep lube trapped inside your sphincter for many hours at a time.
  — Emma Lowrie, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
• The sphincter muscles in the lower esophagus of horses are much stronger than those in humans.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2023
• The next step is an anorectal manometry to test muscular pressure in the sphincter.
  — Cara Schacter, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022
• This includes the urethral sphincters, a pair of muscular valves that regulate urine flow from the bladder to the urethra.
  — Robert Burakoff, Verywell Health, 15 July 2024
• Gas, liquids and solids bump against the esophageal sphincter, the ring of muscular tissue that separates the esophagus from the stomach.
  — Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2015
• Sometimes the upper sphincter, between the esophagus and the throat, malfunctions as well.
  — Jane E. Brody, idahostatesman, 12 May 2017
• Normally the swallowing tube ends with a tight sphincter that stays closed to protect delicate tissue from the harsh acid of the stomach.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• But if the nerves that control the bladder sphincter are slow to mature, a child may not wake up when his or her bladder is full, especially if that child sleeps deeply.
  — Courtenay Harris Bond, Philly.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Choose a comfortable position to relax the anal sphincter (ex: spooning, riding), and start slow.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 21 Sep. 2023
• Bookgasm picks the two worst Stephen King film adaptations… a truly Herculean task, given the crap that’s been spurted from Hollywood’s sphincter over the years with the author’s name on it.
  — John Brownlee, WIRED, 20 Feb. 2007
• This digestive disorder can affect the upper esophageal sphincter (UES), a zone located between the esophagus and the back of the throat.
  — Mark Gurarie, Health, 15 Feb. 2024
• The anus lacks vocal cords, of course, but those are nothing special, just flaps to help keep food and water out of our airways; the anal sphincter can buzz like a trumpeter’s mouth anyway, which is almost as good.
  — Sam Kean, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
• The debris could have blocked the pyloric sphincter, the part of the stomach that empties into the intestines, and prevented the animal’s stomach from emptying.
  — David Doubilet, National Geographic, 31 May 2018
• When you’re aroused, your body relaxes—including your anal sphincter.
  — Kasandra Braba, SELF, 16 Sep. 2021
• The ulcers created scar tissue that narrowed the pyloric sphincter that connects to her intestines.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2019
• The pressure of my lower esophageal sphincter was fine; the wavelike motion of swallowing, called peristalsis, was normal.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• Today's body part is the anal sphincter , that handy little ring of muscle that maintains the separation between your insides and your outsides.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 11 Aug. 2011
• This procedure involves wrapping the stomach's upper portion to the esophagus's lower end, helping strengthen the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) to reduce acid reflux.
  — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 13 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024