How to Use pubis in a Sentence

pubis

noun
  • Ina’s pubis was covered in thin white hairs as soft as fine grass.
    — Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • That means the same pubes that started to grow will shed in about a month to a month and a half.
    — Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 24 July 2023
  • Big silver lines, snaking their way from one side of my pubis to the other.
    — Health.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • However, extreme groomers were no more likely to be diagnosed than those who didn't groom their pubes as often.
    — Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • For men that would be the scrotum; the pubis — the area surrounding the pelvis — was the most likely injury spot for women.
    — Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 16 Aug. 2017
  • The slowness with which the tip of the index finger glides over the skin of the belly, the embowed branches covering the pubis, the lips’ edge.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
  • If all goes to plan, this second week will also see Sue lose its chest ribs, neck and chest backbones, and pubis and ischium (the lower hip bones).
    — Steve Johnson and Phil Geib, chicagotribune.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • And just to clarify, the majority of the injuries occurred in the pubic area — the scrotum for men and pubis for women.
    — Sarah Wu, Teen Vogue, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Suddenly, a depressed horse, an alcoholic mad scientist and two preteens with talking pubes had zoomed to the center of pop culture.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Couture said he’s spoken with a few NHL players who have had osteitis pubis about getting past the injury.
    — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Going forward, restorers plan to make fresh casts out of resin to replace the plaster patches that covered missing pieces, including on part of the nape of the neck and the pubis.
    — Francesco Sportelli, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
  • The animal — which, by the way, is known from several specimens — had a pelvic girdle with rear-pointing pubis and ischium, like the ornithischians.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Swinging the pubis backwards is the Darwinian equivalent of loosening your belt at Thanksgiving dinner.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2016
  • But an encouraging freshman season ended abruptly when discomfort in the pelvic region was diagnosed as osteitis pubis, which is generally described as inflammation.
    — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 17 July 2021
  • Rather than meaningfully engage that potent, longstanding idea, the show presents a literal dream sequence of Floyd’s Freudian nightmare, culminating in the reveal of his now-blank pubis.
    — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Then, at 11 weeks, a debilitating pregnancy condition called symphysis pubis dysfunction derailed me.
    — Women's Health, 31 July 2023
  • And, unfortunately for the anonymous Englishwoman with world-famous pubes, doctors still don’t agree about canities subita, the contested phenomenon where hair blanches seemingly overnight.
    — Popular Science, 27 Jan. 2020

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