How to Use semen in a Sentence

semen

noun
  • In their lungs, brains, hearts, blood, semen and breast milk.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
  • Rachel Bloom would rather be singing about trees that smell like semen.
    — Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
  • And oh, by the way, Richard, there are semen stains in my bed.
    — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 27 May 2026
  • So far, it isn’t known if the virus is transmitted through semen.
    — Vinay Kampalath, STAT, 8 June 2022
  • Sperm can’t get through the filter, but semen, a liquid, can still pass through.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
  • There was semen all over me and my pajama bottoms were off and the top was opened.
    — EW.com, 3 May 2018
  • Okay, the man’s semen was found at the scene of the crime, which doesn’t suggest anything great.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 26 June 2024
  • Later, Oliver leans down to slurp his semen out of the dirty drain.
    — Caroline Madden, Vulture, 8 July 2024
  • The tests were run on semen and hair samples found in the girl’s underwear.
    — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2026
  • This way, a single dose of bull semen could be used to impregnate a whole lot of heifers.
    — Maureen O’Hagan, Quartz, 24 June 2019
  • If there was no sperm in his semen, he would’ve been deemed sterile in a prior lifetime.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2021
  • In some men the virus disappeared from the semen and then reappeared over the course of the year.
    — Seema Yasmin, Scientific American, 29 Feb. 2016
  • My fiancée doesn’t want to be the one to inject the semen, so the midwife does her thing.
    — refinery29.com, 1 June 2021
  • Meanwhile, one of the drugs turned his sweat yellow (also his semen).
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 6 June 2024
  • What about the dotards who have semen all in the fingernails of their thumbs and pinkies, Yesha?
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 6 Oct. 2017
  • All the husband had to do was leave a semen sample with the medical team.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 3 July 2025
  • The drops of semen are said to look like the individual pearls on a strand of beads.
    — Rose Surnow, Cosmopolitan, 17 Nov. 2016
  • Pinch the tip to leave a a little room at the end — think of it like a tiny latex waiting room for the semen.
    — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 17 Feb. 2017
  • Survivors who got the drug cleared the virus from their semen more quickly than survivors who got the placebo.
    — NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
  • By now, the DNA in Long’s semen is no longer his own but his donor’s.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2019
  • In the semen analysis, a healthcare provider will check to ensure the semen is free of sperm.
    — Jamin Brahmbhatt, Verywell Health, 11 July 2024
  • The prostate is a gland near the bladder that produces prostate fluid, one of the main elements of semen.
    — Gigi Engle, Teen Vogue, 16 May 2018
  • The semen found on it was linked back to Ewers, the prosecutor said.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Another soda can was found in the freezer next to frozen canine semen.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The prostate is a gland around the top of the bladder that produces prostate fluid, one of the main elements of semen.
    — Gigi Engle, Teen Vogue, 7 July 2017
  • These tiny particles have been found in blood, brains, breast milk, placentas, semen, and bone marrow.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2025
  • So did blood on the interior of the front door to Lori's trailer, and semen on her bedsheet.
    — Murray Weiss, CBS News, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Uranus’s genitalia, along with his blood and semen, formed a thick, dense, mist from which Venus (or Aphrodite) emerged.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 31 July 2018
  • In addition, Maven will now offer males with semen-analysis kits that can be used at-home.
    — Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Schafer noted that finding the CWD prions in semen was one thing.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2020

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