How to Use nonpregnant in a Sentence

nonpregnant

adjective
  • The Dobbs decision is also putting even nonpregnant women’s health in jeopardy.
    — Lindsay Beyerstein, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Some nonpregnant reviewers sing its praises for supporting bad backs and easing arthritis, too.
    — Jessica Kasparian, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
  • These hunters never saw the nonpregnant females, which don’t seek out the sun after the brief period of emergence but spend the summer in deep woods as much as two miles from their den crevices.
    — Thomas Palmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • But a gigantic nonpregnant snake with a significant lump does pique her curiosity.
    — Janet Maslin, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Yet pregnant giraffes appear to flee as fast as nonpregnant individuals.
    — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Pregnant women are three times more likely to develop severe malaria compared to nonpregnant women.
    — Zoya Teirstein, Vox, 30 May 2024
  • In fact, pregnant women were nearly three times as likely as nonpregnant women to require ICU care.
    — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Then, starting in September, activity will pick up in the den as nonpregnant females and males return from hunting.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2024
  • The goal of the current study is to compare the olfactory sensitivity of pregnant women to that of nonpregnant women and men.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2014
  • The vaccine response for lactating women was similar to nonpregnant women after their booster dose.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The team first tested the process in baboons and five nonpregnant volunteers before moving on to pregnant women who had been admitted to the hospital with preterm preeclampsia.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Nonpregnant women who are bitten, infected and recover become immune — and can later have a baby safely, experts said.
    — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 5 Feb. 2016
  • Research shows pregnant people who get the virus are more likely to be admitted to intensive care, receive invasive ventilation and die than their nonpregnant peers.
    — Ali Swenson, ajc, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Researchers noticed no difference in the number of emergency room orders for the medication in nonpregnant patients.
    — Sara Novak, Scientific American, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Finding solidarity and community can be helpful in the fight against weathering for pregnant and nonpregnant people alike.
    — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Experts say the safety of the new mRNA vaccines, which do not contain live virus, would probably be similar in pregnant and nonpregnant people.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Experts say the safety of the new mRNA vaccines, which do not contain live virus, would probably be similar in pregnant and nonpregnant people.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 2 Jan. 2021
  • After receiving the vaccine, pregnant women reported pain at the injection site more frequently, and headaches, chills and fevers less frequently than nonpregnant women, researchers said.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Of particular note, experts said, was the fact that the shots produced high levels of neutralizing antibodies, which can prevent the virus from entering cells, in both pregnant and nonpregnant women.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2021
  • Whale watchers estimate that 15 to 20 humpbacks, either juveniles or nonpregnant females, have not migrated south and have remained in the feeding grounds.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2018
  • The researchers also found that 14 percent of pregnant women reported a fever after their second vaccine dose, compared to 52 percent of nonpregnant women.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2021
  • Men with a waist circumference of more than 40 inches and nonpregnant women whose waist circumference is more than 35 inches are considered to have a higher risk of insulin resistance.
    — Knvul Sheikh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The researchers included 88,857 pregnant patients and 853,216 nonpregnant patients in the analysis.
    — Sara Novak, Scientific American, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The study found that orders for acetaminophen among pregnant emergency department patients aged between 15 and 44 fell by 10 percent while no significant change in acetaminophen use was found among nonpregnant female emergency department patients in the same age range.
    — Joseph Choi, The Hill, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Pregnant women are getting vaccinated against the coronavirus at a lower rate than their nonpregnant peers, according to a new report released Tuesday, and the uptake is particularly low among those age 18 to 24 as well as Black and Hispanic women.
    — Christopher Snowbeck, Star Tribune, 15 June 2021
  • The American Diabetes Association sets a target A1C of less than 7 percent for most nonpregnant adults — meeting this benchmark substantially slows, and may completely prevent, the development of diabetes complications.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 27 Feb. 2026

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