How to Use colon in a Sentence

colon

noun
  • Chia seeds can help move waste out of your colon.
    — Joy Emeh, Health, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Who is at risk of colon cancer?
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 12 Feb. 2026
  • The colon needs water to help keep stool soft.
    — Emmanuella Ogbonna, Health, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Smith has lived most of his life without a colon.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The test showed spots on her liver and a mass in her colon.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 13 June 2026
  • Bacteria in the colon break them down and make gas.
    — Merve Ceylan, Health, 24 Sep. 2025
  • But the most striking one is colon cancer.
    — Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 27 Apr. 2026
  • It's long been known men fare worse with colon cancer than women.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
  • Colonics can flush larger portions of the colon.
    — Erica Sweeney, Time, 11 May 2026
  • What are the symptoms of colon cancer?
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 12 Feb. 2026
  • White then typed out the entry on colons and mailed it to the young writer.
    — Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • And all of them had stage IV colon cancer.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Health, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Or colons, which are too emphatic.
    — Karen Stabiner, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The tumor covered my colon and was on my kidneys.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Your colon exits through the pelvic floor, Pasricha said.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Research shows mixed results about the role of fiber in colon cancer.
    — Courtney Southwick, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
  • These special compounds protect your colon and boost your gut health.
    — Anahad O’Connor, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Or maybe, at the risk of seeming too flippant, that comma should be a colon.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2023
  • He had been diagnosed with colon cancer last year.
    — Gene Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Bell was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer.
    — Currie Engel, SELF, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Those with colon cancer died at four times the rate; those with breast cancer, almost six times.
    — Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • What are early symptoms of colon cancer?
    — Andrea Dwyer, The Conversation, 30 May 2026
  • Reed died of colon lymphoma in 1992 at the age of 59.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The good news is that when it is caught early, colon cancer is highly treatable.
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Your colon runs on a daily rhythm — quiet at night, active in the morning.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2026
  • Your colon runs on a daily rhythm — quiet at night, active in the morning.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 13 June 2026
  • Each celebrity will play in honor of a colon cancer survivor.
    — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Even more importantly, fiber is food for the microbes in your colon.
    — Andrea Muraskin, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Martínez's told the Times that his wife, Cuéllar, has colon cancer.
    — Faith Bugenhagen, Austin American Statesman, 9 Mar. 2026
  • New data shows a rise in colon cancer among adults ages 45-49.
    — Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 12 Aug. 2025

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