How to Use semen in a Sentence

semen

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  • By now, the DNA in Long’s semen is no longer his own but his donor’s.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2019
  • To give just the briefest of overviews: Folks tried to sneeze or high-kick the semen right out of them (this didn’t work).
    — Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Rachel Bloom would rather be singing about trees that smell like semen.
    — Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
  • My fiancée doesn’t want to be the one to inject the semen, so the midwife does her thing.
    — refinery29.com, 1 June 2021
  • Jackson was connected to the crime through DNA found in semen at the crime scene.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • The urethra: This is the tunnel through which urine and semen travel.
    — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 29 Dec. 2018
  • Sperm can’t get through the filter, but semen, a liquid, can still pass through.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Ranford had spit on her breast and semen, along with a wadded up piece of cloth, inside of her.
    — Amber Hunt, Cincinnati.com, 23 June 2020
  • So far, it isn’t known if the virus is transmitted through semen.
    — Vinay Kampalath, STAT, 8 June 2022
  • At one point, a performer is doused in gallons of pig semen.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The only difference will be a lack of sperm in your semen.
    — Jon Irwin, Men's Health, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Lisa Collins: the goal was to try to figure out … Who did this semen sample belong to?
    — CBS News, 20 Nov. 2021
  • There was semen all over me and my pajama bottoms were off and the top was opened.
    — EW.com, 3 May 2018
  • The lab didn’t find semen in the rape kit, but there was some DNA that could be directly compared.
    — cleveland.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • There was semen on the bedspread and the sheets - but police didn't match it to anyone until March 2005.
    — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 16 May 2018
  • 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
  • Prosecutors said at the start of the trial that Downs had the weapons used in Sergie’s killing and that his semen was found on Sergie’s body.
    — Christopher Williams, Sun Journal (lewiston, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The prostate, which is located just below the bladder and in front of the rectum, makes some of the fluid that is part of semen.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The semen found on it was linked back to Ewers, the prosecutor said.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • The cops discover a pair of underwear with Ani’s blood and Bryce’s semen in Bryce’s room.
    — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019
  • And like three of the patients in Italy, these two also had monkeypox DNA in their semen.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • Schafer noted that finding the CWD prions in semen was one thing.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Meanwhile, one of the drugs turned his sweat yellow (also his semen).
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 6 June 2024
  • 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
  • If there was no sperm in his semen, he would’ve been deemed sterile in a prior lifetime.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2021
  • Even more surprising to Long and other colleagues at the crime lab, all of the DNA in his semen belonged to his donor.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2019
  • At its most basic level, prostate cancer is a malignancy that occurs in the prostate gland, which produces fluid that mixes with sperm from the testicles to make semen.
    — Marc B. Garnick, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
  • If a couple is having trouble conceiving, a semen analysis can help determine if the male's sperm is playing a factor.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024

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