How to Use penile in a Sentence

penile

adjective
  • One of her toughest tasks was how to handle the show’s penile amputations.
    — Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Cysts are also common, and like penile papules, generally not a big deal.
    — Jenna Birch, Health.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • This isn’t the only injectable men are using for penile enhancement.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Sometimes the bend is slight and doesn't interfere with reasonable penile functions.
    — Dan Savage, Chicago Reader, 9 May 2018
  • What the study showed Studies have measured penile length dating back at least 80 years, Eisenberg said.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Doctors have taken an interest in penile transplants as the nature of injuries soldiers suffer at war has changed.
    — Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • About 20 percent of the penile injuries were considered severe — but how many might warrant a transplant is not clear.
    — Author: Denise Grady, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Some observational studies have found that adult men who were circumcised as babies were less likely to get penile cancer.
    — Susan Reslewic Keatley, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The number of people who knew HPV caused oral and penile cancers hovered around 30% that whole time.
    — Angus Chen Reprints, STAT, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Gave ketamine or morphine injections to course participants to demonstrate penile nerve blocks.
    — Dennis Wagner, azcentral, 15 July 2015
  • Like, seeking controversial penile enlargement treatments and risking their health to do so.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Other implants, like plastic urinary pessaries or penile pumps, would never even be seen by a crematory worker.
    — Hayley Campbell, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
  • There have been four other successful penile transplants reported worldwide.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The samples were then analyzed using chemical imaging, which revealed that four of the five men had microplastics in their penile tissue.
    — Jack Guy, CNN, 19 June 2024
  • Unlike pap smear campaigns for women that catch cervical cancer, no such regular screening test exists for penile, head and neck, or anal cancer.
    — Grace Browne, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Black Knight Sword has no discernible penile fixation, but doesn’t appear to be any different in terms of its thematic depth.
    — Andrew Groen, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2013
  • But penile fractures can also result from intense trauma, like getting severely injured in a car accident.
    — Julie Stewart, Men's Health, 21 July 2023
  • In addition to cervical cancer, the virus can cause anal, oropharyngeal, penile, vaginal, and vulvar cancers.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The team sends people vaginal, penile or anal swabs with instructions to collect samples and mail the swab back to Johns Hopkins for analysis.
    — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The doctor found the abuse involving several forms of contact, including penile-vaginal contact, the warrant states.
    — Emily Lane, NOLA.com, 5 Jan. 2018
  • As cGMP levels increase, the blood vessels relax and widen, allowing more blood to flow into the penile tissues.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Plastic surgeons can perform penile reconstruction using a patient’s own skin but a transplant of an entire organ is much trickier.
    — NBC News, 23 Apr. 2018
  • There were two earlier successful penile transplants in South Africa, as well as an unsuccessful one in China.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Add to it a penile fracture, a man overboard, seismic weather events, and a surgery by flashlight, and Doctor Odyssey seemed bound for a second-season renewal.
    — Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Men who develop penile cancer often need to undergo amputation.
    — Josh Dean, Esquire, 15 Feb. 2017
  • Vacuum erectile devices or penile implants might also be recommended.
    — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 9 June 2023
  • Symptoms include unusual vaginal or penile discharge or burning while peeing, though some people experience no symptoms.
    — Wendy Wisner, Health, 31 Oct. 2024
  • To counteract retraction and scarring after removal, some men engage in an elaborate penile rehab regimen.
    — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 26 June 2023
  • His habit of requiring employees to sign confidentiality agreements and then gliding among them nearly nude has drawn some negative comment, as have his penile metrics.
    — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Today, some scientists assume that SREs protect the integrity of the penile cavernous bodies.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2016

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