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, 2017-06-19
  • Some girls feel discomfort when the hymen stretches or tears, which can cause a little bleeding.
    — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 2017-10-13
  • The former governor also said the girl could not have been raped because her hymen was intact.
    — Tom Loftus, The Courier-Journal, 2019-12-23
  • 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, 2020-08-04
  • No one besides you, not a hymen or another person, can 'take your virginity away'.
    — Brittney McNamara, Allure, 2017-09-14
  • The name Hymenocallis is from the Greek word hymen, which means membrane, and callos, which means beauty.
    — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 2020-08-09
  • 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, 2019-11-06
  • As well as the myths propagated around the hymen, tightness too has been associated with virginity since time immemorial.
    — Sophia Smith Galer, refinery29.com, 2022-04-13
  • For centuries, the state of a girl’s or woman’s hymen has been used, unscientifically, to determine virginity.
    — Sophia Jones, Marie Claire, 2019-10-30
  • Insert this artificial hymen into your vagina carefully.
    — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 2009-10-06
  • 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, 2021-08-13
  • 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, 2017-01-06

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