How to Use pubic in a Sentence

pubic

adjective
  • There is more pubic hair on the seat.
    — R29 Team, Refinery29, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Her pubic hair is not waxed or colored.
    — Weike Wang, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Move the right hand across the body, below the navel and above the pubic bone.
    — Katie Chang, Bon Appetit, 19 June 2017
  • Auelkhan said female guards used chewing gum to pull on her pubic hair.
    — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Beauty standards about pubic hair have come a long way in the last few years.
    — Deanna Pai, Glamour, 4 July 2018
  • The next day, the right side of her pubic hair turned white, while the left half remained black.
    — Popular Science, 27 Jan. 2020
  • But somewhere along the way in the last few decades, patches of pubic hair have shrunk in size.
    — Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 16 Aug. 2017
  • The pubic bone and hip bones should be heavily pressed into the mat.
    — Angela Peterson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The gracilis is a thin inner-thigh muscle that runs from the pubic bone to the knee.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 29 May 2026
  • This Brad stole Samantha’s cab and then asked her to shave her pubic hair.
    — Kelly Conaboy, The Cut, 6 June 2018
  • Pull your pubic hair out in clumps from the root and send it in unmarked envelopes to technocrats.
    — Longreads, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Our head, chest, armpit, and pubic hair consists of terminal hairs.
    — Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The rashes can appear on the body, the thigh, the crease of the thigh, the pubic region and the face.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 May 2023
  • Mons Mist is a conditioning spray for pubic hair and the skin in the area.
    — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 22 Oct. 2019
  • By chance, a scan revealed an issue in the cartilage of her pubic arch.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 Dec. 2021
  • But this is just the latest sign that pubic hair styles are swinging back toward au naturel.
    — Erika W. Smith, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Not removing your pubic hair is the best way to prevent ingrowns.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Nassar treated the injury with acupuncture to not just the shoulder but his pubic area as well.
    — Jennifer Summer, Houston Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The man, who was recording and audibly enjoying the act, had gray in his pubic hair.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The video showcases models' pubic hair in various states, from a clean shave to a full bush.
    — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 26 June 2019
  • Wilson said Lloyd put his hands in her underwear and touched her buttock and pubic area.
    — CBS News, 6 Mar. 2018
  • In her cases, the girls were already in the early stages of puberty, with breast buds and pubic hair.
    — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2022
  • That's also why many ingrown hairs occur in the pubic area, because hair tends to be curlier down there.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 18 June 2019
  • Or a 15-year-old can be well through puberty and have no body odor, no greasiness and no pubic hair growth.
    — Andrea Kane, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Samantha’s trainer/lover shaving her pubic hair into the shape of a lightning bolt.
    — Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
  • But a merkin is also a pubic wig, worn by men and women to cover the unsightly effects of syphilis.
    — Toby Zinman, Philly.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • This is a film with the audacity to turn the color of a puppet’s pubic hair into a pivotal plot point.
    — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 24 Aug. 2018
  • Crab louse eggs were found attached to the pubic hairs of a 2,000-yr-old Chilean mummy.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2017
  • The photo features a completely nude Kim (with her nipples and pubic area blurred out).
    — Alison Caporimo, Seventeen, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Press your hands and toes into your mat and draw your pubic bone toward your belly button to engage the deep core and pelvic floor muscles.
    — Amber Sayer, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2025

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