How to Use progesterone in a Sentence

progesterone

noun
  • The patients will get two shots of progesterone a day for five days.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2020
  • This is due to an increase in progesterone levels in your body.
    — Anna Rahmanan, Parents, 27 Oct. 2023
  • That progesterone call-out, after all, applies not just to trans folks but those in menopause, too.
    — Jesse Dorris, Pitchfork, 25 Feb. 2026
  • In a lot of mammal species, progesterone levels start to drop a few days before birth.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2020
  • At that point, their ovaries start to produce less of the hormones estrogen and progesterone.
    — Katie Camero, SELF, 26 Nov. 2024
  • That’s largely thanks to a hormone that helps prep your body for pregnancy called progesterone.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 18 May 2022
  • The ovaries start to produce less estrogen and progesterone.
    — Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The decrease in your body’s progesterone production can lead to restless nights, too.
    — Maria Del Russo, Woman's Day, 18 June 2020
  • As a control, some were given a placebo instead of progesterone.
    — WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Michele started taking a high dose of progesterone to help her body sustain the pregnancy and stayed on bed rest.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 26 Mar. 2021
  • What happens with menses every month is that the lining of the uterus grows, due to estrogen and progesterone.
    — Katie Heaney, The Cut, 15 Feb. 2018
  • This is not a safety issue of progesterone, but of mifepristone.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2026
  • This makes sense, since estrogen and progesterone levels are high, which can lead to bloating and fatigue.
    — Christine Yu, Outside Online, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Mikki's progesterone levels were high on Monday, the tweet said.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 9 July 2019
  • Zookeepers confirmed the pregnancy with a blood test that showed high levels of progesterone.
    — Washington Post, 6 July 2018
  • This time, the chatter revolves around Khloé’s low progesterone levels.
    — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The question is whether the progesterone increases that likelihood and by how much.
    — Bracey Harris, NBC News, 20 July 2024
  • The first, mifepristone, blocks a hormone called progesterone.
    — Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2022
  • The progesterone that many women now take with an oestrogen supplement is thought less likely to do so.
    — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The progesterone analogue blocks the testes from producing normal levels of sperm.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 21 Dec. 2017
  • These drugs block the body from producing estrogen and progesterone, which cause the uterine lining to build up.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 20 June 2023
  • The drug works by blocking the pregnancy hormone progesterone.
    — Liz Essley Whyte, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • But, now doctors can prescribe micronized progesterone that has fewer side effects.
    — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Without progesterone, the lining of the uterus breaks down and the pregnancy cannot continue.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Progestin is a synthetic hormone that mimics the effects of progesterone in the body.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The zinc found in oysters controls progesterone levels which are said to have a positive effect on the libido.
    — Redbook, 9 Feb. 2011
  • Without progesterone, the lining of the uterus breaks down and pregnancy cannot continue.
    — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 19 May 2022
  • The hormones most commonly used to treat symptoms of menopause are estrogen and progesterone.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The progesterone helps stabilize the tissue of the cervix to prevent early labor.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The drug dilates the cervix and blocks the effects of the hormone progesterone, which is needed to sustain a pregnancy.
    — Arkansas Online, 12 Feb. 2023

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