How to Use uterus in a Sentence

uterus

noun
  • Fibroids could cause the uterus to push against the back or butt.
    — Suzannah Weis, SELF, 21 July 2021
  • The weight of the uterus can press on the spine and back muscles.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
  • She was warned of the slim chance that her uterus would be damaged.
    — Washington Post, 25 June 2020
  • Then Wyle can open the uterus with scissors.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Fibroids are growths of tissue that form in the uterus.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The uterus should become firm and be about the size of a grapefruit.
    — Naseem S. Miller, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2017
  • After all, your ovaries and uterus are not like an atomic clock.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
  • In one case, all four shark embryos were crammed into one uterus.
    — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2019
  • When the body starts to heat up, blood pulls away from the core and the uterus and rushes to the skin.
    — Amudalat Ajasa, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • This ball of cells then attaches to the lining of the uterus.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2023
  • Do his constant reminders of your value as a uterus work for you?
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Humans reach this stage before the embryo beds down in the wall of the uterus.
    — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2018
  • Her cancer is metastatic, spread from the uterus to the liver and lungs.
    — Jason Fagone, SFChronicle.com, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Polyps are also benign growths, and they can be found in the uterus or on the top of the cervix.
    — Wendy Wisner, Health, 13 Sep. 2024
  • To her surprise, Aria finds an embryo lodged in the corpse’s uterus.
    — Waka Tsunoda, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • That same uterus has to do a lot of work to contract back down to pre-pregnancy shape.
    — Arianna Bradford, Parents, 29 July 2023
  • Both work by changing the way sperm cells move in the uterus and prevent them from reaching an egg.
    — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2024
  • And meanwhile, women are over here with a swarm of bees in our uterus and our skin falling off.
    — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The first uterus transplant at Penn was in 2018.
    — Stephanie Stahl, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The uterus and round ligaments stretch as the fetus grows in the womb6.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 18 May 2022
  • The endometrium is the tissue that lines the inside of the uterus.
    — Kasandra Brabaw, Health, 19 June 2024
  • The first piece that came to me was this image of this white, glowing uterus with boxing gloves for ovaries.
    — Lisa Beebe, Los Angeles Magazine, 26 Feb. 2018
  • These muscles support the bladder and bowel, as well as the uterus.
    — Kristina Behr, Parents, 13 Mar. 2024
  • And Conlon has demonstrated the right way and the wrong way to cook a pig uterus.
    — Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 8 May 2018
  • With this cancer stage, the disease has spread to the outer surface of your uterus.
    — Sherri Gordon, Health, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The eggs can be thawed, fertilized in the lab and transferred to the uterus as embryos.
    — Rebecca Albright, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2018
  • During her exam, the midwife found a broken stick lodged in the girl’s uterus.
    — Susannah Savage, Washington Post, 22 May 2018
  • In men, oral and throat cancers are on the rise, and liver and uterus cancers in women.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
  • Avoid lying on your right side or flat on your back, which puts the full weight of your uterus on the vena cava.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Johnson explained that the cancer was present in her cervix, uterus and a couple of lymph nodes.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 15 June 2026

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