How to Use foreskin in a Sentence

foreskin

noun
  • Including this serum that was made from the foreskin of a poor, poor baby.
    — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2017
  • The foreskin is then processed, packaged, and sold as a high-end anti-aging cream.
    — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 14 Aug. 2019
  • In places where the disease is common and treatment is patchy, removing foreskins can be a cost-effective way to fight it.
    — The Economist, 16 Nov. 2019
  • The foreskin is thought to increase the risk of contracting HIV for two reasons.
    — Jenni Singer, Parents, 19 July 2023
  • Before the foreskin serum is applied, Louise preps skin with peels, a micro-needling wand, and an electrifying mask.
    — Shannon Barbour, The Cut, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Meanwhile, Bryton clearly feels threatened by Chris and gives off rancid vibes when asking for proof of foreskin.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 7 June 2024
  • An uncircumcised infant’s foreskin is naturally tight, but will relax as the child grows.
    — Susan Reslewic Keatley, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Then, Parker took out a little piece of (fake) foreskin, put it on his finger — that had little eyes drawn on it — and wiggled it for the camera.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 19 May 2026
  • Smegma, a bodily secretion made up of dead skin cells and oily secretions, settles beneath the foreskin.
    — Christina Oehler, Health.com, 20 June 2019
  • Starting with a small square of foreskin, the fibroblasts can be multiplied to cover several football fields.
    — Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2021
  • The foreskin is collected during circumcision, at which point the stem cells are extracted through a centrifuge.
    — Maria Del Russo, Glamour, 4 May 2018
  • Furthermore, Jewish and Muslim males would be born without foreskins.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 May 2017
  • Not to mention the business with foreskins, demanded by God like genital loot, the spoils of victory, so many scalps.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The religious ritual involves a rabbi sucking a small amount of blood out of an infant's wound with his mouth after the baby's foreskin has been removed.
    — Christina Capatides, CBS News, 19 July 2017
  • For example, circumcision is an appropriate treatment for most men with cancer of the foreskin.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 2 June 2023
  • In addition to the shroud, pilgrims visited Jesus’ crib, splinters from the cross and Jesus’ foreskin, just to name a few.
    — Eric Vanden Eykel, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The foreskin can be a source of multiple medical problems in older men, thus justifying later-in-life circumcision.
    — The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Wanking, at the time, was linked to a whole host of ailments, including epilepsy and insanity, and cutting off the super-sensitive foreskin was designed to prevent them.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Mar. 2018
  • In the same article, Gairdner proposes that the foreskin is far from vestigial, a term applied to features that have lost their function during evolution.
    — Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2022
  • The team take specimens of brain, spinal cord, lungs, heart, kidneys, liver, spleen, muscle, bone marrow, adrenal glands, thyroid, lymph nodes, genital-tract tissues, foreskin and intestine.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • Jesse’s vampire friend Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) is captured and tortured by having his foreskin repeatedly removed.
    — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 14 Aug. 2019
  • One example is phimosis, a rare condition that makes foreskin retraction impossible.
    — Jenni Singer, Parents, 19 July 2023
  • The first few all involving making sure my face is super-clean — all the better to, counterintuitively, dirty it up later with Korean baby foreskin — go figure.
    — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 16 May 2018
  • But parts of the remaining redundant foreskin were inflamed and, along with the termini of the erstwhile skin bridge, covered in what looked like a dense layer of Eastern European soot.
    — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Some Jewish scholars thought that uncircumcised men would prove too irresistible for Jewish women, and that men without a foreskin would not be led into constant temptation.
    — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Some medical professionals have argued the foreskin — though often seen as useless and inconvenient — may actually serve a crucial, hidden purpose.
    — Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2022
  • In the last century and a half of American history, many claims have been made about the effects of keeping or removing one's foreskin, both passionately in favor of and passionately against it.
    — Matt Thompson, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Meanwhile, James Thomson from the University of Wisconsin managed to reprogram skin cells from a foetus and from the foreskin of a baby boy.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2011
  • Bloodstained Men & Their Friends is a non-profit organization dedicated to giving victims of genital cutting a voice and educating Americans about the harms of infant circumcision and the importance of the foreskin.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 23 Mar. 2018

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