How to Use ovulation in a Sentence

ovulation

noun
  • The ovaries work hard to make and release eggs for ovulation.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Flow Space, 27 Oct. 2025
  • And in the unusual case of triplets, those eggs are all released with one ovulation.
    — John Bonifield and Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The cycle involves ovulation, where an egg is released from one of the ovaries.
    — Gabrielle Smith, CNN, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Some people may also spot lightly around the time of ovulation.
    — Rachel Gurevich, Parents, 30 July 2024
  • The four patients will now have to wait at least a month, for their next ovulation, to start an embryo transfer.
    — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The office is open seven days a week—ovulation does not take weekends off—and Huang is there most days.
    — Jancee Dunn, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2019
  • The one-pill dose works by delaying ovulation with a hormone called levonorgestrel.
    — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 19 July 2022
  • This luteal phase of the cycle starts with the release of the egg at ovulation and ends when a period begins.
    — Sara Twogood, Quartz, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The time is right, according to my ovulation-tracking strips and midwife.
    — refinery29.com, 1 June 2021
  • The luteal phase of the menstrual cycle starts right after ovulation.
    — Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The follicular phase is when your body prepares for ovulation.
    — Wendy Wisner, Health, 22 Dec. 2024
  • At around five months old, a hen undergoes the hormonal changes that trigger ovulation.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Of course, the app’s span of red days tries to account for this and predict the days prior to ovulation in which a woman is fertile.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2018
  • The team had also discovered how to induce ovulation in the dunnart.
    — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The best ovulation tests are affordable, simple to use, and easy to interpret.
    — Rachael Schultz, Health, 9 July 2024
  • The 21 active pills prevent ovulation, meaning that no egg will be released from the ovaries.
    — Gabrielle Smith, CNN, 6 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • My doctor decides to start me right away on a drug called Clomid, which stimulates ovulation.
    — refinery29.com, 30 June 2020
  • During perimenopause, ovulation (the release of an egg from the ovary) may not occur every month.
    — Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Each month, during ovulation, a prospective mother (or her doctor) unthaws a vial and injects the sperm.
    — New York Times, 8 Jan. 2021
  • While estrogen drops around ovulation, too, the decline is not as rapid, which might explain why migraines aren’t as common at this time.
    — Lori Youmshajekian, WIRED, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Laird points to the possibility that long-term ovulation suppression could be a tool to delay menopause.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Flo, a period and ovulation tracking app, has more than 100 million users.
    — Zoe Schiffer, The Verge, 13 Jan. 2021
  • The cycle begins with menstruation—known as a period—and leads to ovulation, or the release of an egg.
    — Andrea Stanley, Health, 20 July 2023
  • These include food tracking, sleep monitoring, and special stats for the ladies (ovulation and such; more on that below).
    — Lindsey Murray, Good Housekeeping, 11 May 2018
  • Issues with ovulation may also be a sort of risk factor for PCOS.
    — Emilia Benton, Health.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Rather than blocking ovulation, the IUD works by preventing sperm from getting to your eggs.
    — Emily Shiffer, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Most of those work by either thickening the cervical mucus so sperm can't get to the uterus or stopping ovulation or making it so the sperm can't swim.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2024
  • If the ovulation timing is unknown or cannot be determined, the due date may range from 58-68 days from the day of breeding.
    — Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 22 June 2022
  • The first dose contains the gonadotropin-releasing hormone that resets the ovulation cycle of the female.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021

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