How to Use menstruation in a Sentence

menstruation

noun
  • One of them, which doesn’t get much air time, is menstruation.
    — Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • It is worn for three weeks per month, with one patch-free week during menstruation.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 15 Jan. 2025
  • But that’s not how menstruation works.
    — Ciara Lucas, SELF, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Here's how parents can make menstruation a lot less scary for their children.
    — Ellen Sturm Niz, Parents, 6 June 2023
  • Next up is menopause, the moment one year after the last menstruation.
    — Amy Larocca, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • But to me, menstruation felt more like a time bomb, a fuse that my body re-lit every single month.
    — Therese Shechter, SELF, 13 Mar. 2019
  • From menstruation to menopause, too much has been left unaddressed for too long.
    — Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • The challenges around menstruation don’t end with school.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
  • But for some cultures more than others, menstruation is taboo.
    — Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, 19 Oct. 2020
  • As with many aspects of women’s health, there is a lack of data on menstruation.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 20 Dec. 2021
  • If pregnancy does not occur, menstruation will take place when the luteal phase ends.
    — Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 18 Sep. 2024
  • What is clear, though, is that symptoms can flare before and during menstruation.
    — Stephanie Watson, SELF, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Changes in menstruation weren’t listed as a side effect of the vaccines.
    — Alice Broster, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
  • It is replaced weekly for three weeks, followed by a week off to allow for menstruation.
    — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Check your own baggage The goal is to break cycles of shame and silence around menstruation.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 20 Oct. 2025
  • But menstruation isn't the only indication that stature growth has stopped or will stop soon.
    — Maria Carter, Parents, 5 July 2023
  • Or as bold a statement as speaking to classmates about menstruation, a taboo topic.
    — Elizabeth Llorente | Fox News, Fox News, 13 June 2018
  • Fast forward to today and menstruation is no longer a topic that is hidden in the shadows.
    — Allison Palmer, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2025
  • This is not the first time Florida schools have been in hot water over the topic of menstruation.
    — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The symptoms usually resolve around the third or fourth day of menstruation.
    — Sara Twogood, Quartz, 7 Aug. 2019
  • In fact, menstruation is one of the biggest migraine triggers for women.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 30 Dec. 2019
  • To be sure, managing menstruation is but a small slice of the challenges working women face.
    — Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, Marie Claire, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Blockers were a way of, say, keeping a 5-year-old from the trauma of early menstruation.
    — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021
  • But there’s also the taboo around menstruation, which shuts the conversation down.
    — Clara Longo De Freitas, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Rather, menopause means the end of menstruation and fertility.
    — Karina Zaiets, USA Today, 30 June 2025
  • Her youngest daughter and some of her classmates experienced the start of menstruation as young as age 6.
    — Author: Tammy Webber, Martha Irvine, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2019
  • During menstruation, the inner membrane of the uterus (known as the endometrium) is shed.
    — Holly Eagleson, Parents, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The endometrium, which lines the uterus and is shed during menstruation, has also been linked to the immune system.
    — Knvul Sheikh, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2022
  • Nearly all women report some mood changes and discomfort in the week prior to menstruation.
    — Andréa Becker, The Atlantic, 3 May 2026
  • In ancient Rome it was thought to increase milk and sperm volume, and well as stimulate menstruation.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland, 11 Mar. 2021

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