How to Use birth control pill in a Sentence

birth control pill

noun
  • The world might be a lot closer to a birth control pill for men.
    — Doug Criss, CNN, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Certain birth control pills also have been found to raise the risk.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The use of condoms increased, as did the use of birth control pills.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2018
  • The female birth control pill has stood on the market alone for decades.
    — Julia Zorthian, Time, 19 Mar. 2018
  • No tests, no explanations—just birth control pills shoved in my face.
    — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 June 2017
  • Research had linked birth control pills to a modest increase in breast cancer decades ago.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Uninsured customers, on the other hand, must pay upfront for birth control pills.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • What everyone’s talking about A once-a-month birth control pill?
    — Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Researchers first began work on a male birth control pill in the 1970s.
    — Andrew Marquardt, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2022
  • But a male birth control pill that is both safe and effective may be on the horizon, according to a new study.
    — Mark Lieber, CNN, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The researchers attribute a great deal of this increase to women’s access to the birth control pill.
    — Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • Most of the latest technologies don’t take the form of a hormonal birth control pill, though.
    — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The drug, with the brand name of Opill, is a progestin-only birth control pill to be taken daily.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 11 July 2022
  • The latest effort to come up with a male birth control pill has found a formulation that appears to be safe.
    — NBC News, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The birth control pill, called Opill, was first approved for use in 1973 — if prescribed.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2022
  • Then a gloss of Pear Drops toothpaste, her pick of six varieties of hair dryer, and birth control pills.
    — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The findings don't necessarily mean that teenage girls shouldn't take birth control pills, the researchers wrote.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Five years of trials were needed to demonstrate its safety and effectiveness for the birth control pill.
    — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2019
  • Women can get several types of birth control pills, as well as the birth control patch and ring through the Nurx app and website.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Traditional birth control pills can also cause blood clots and increase the risk of heart problems like a stroke or heart attack.
    — Fortune, 22 May 2020
  • In general, the birth control pill also reduces the risk of several types of cancer.
    — Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • The reason [those taking birth control] tend to have fewer cramps is birth control pills work by blocking ovulation.
    — Shanelle Drakeford, Allure, 8 July 2018
  • Page conducted a small study showing a male birth control pill, which mimics testosterone, was safe when given daily for a month.
    — Jonathan Lapook, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Women in more than 100 countries can buy birth control pills without a prescription.
    — Abigail Abrams, Time, 21 June 2019
  • So, a male birth control pill that lowers testosterone (and sperm production) would need to do so without all the side effects of low testosterone.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 22 Mar. 2018
  • This works out to a perfect-use effectiveness of 99 percent, which is the same perfect-use number as birth control pills.
    — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 29 Aug. 2018
  • The first male birth control pill, which has shown significant results in lab trials, could begin human testing before the end of the year.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Democrats said the broad language of the bill could also have been read as banning many forms of birth control including intrauterine devices and birth control pills.
    — Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 4 May 2018
  • Her contributions proved invaluable, and the birth control pill came on the market in 1960.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 21 Jan. 2017
  • What's more, Zeichner brings up the fact that now more than ever women are starting birth control pills at a young age, with many staying on the drug for decades.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Allure, 16 Oct. 2017

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