How to Use semen in a Sentence

semen

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The semen sample is then analyzed in a lab, and as long as the sample contains live sperm cells, it can be frozen and stored.
    Samantha Lauriello, Health, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Prostate Disorders The prostate is a small gland in the male reproductive tract that helps make semen.
    Samantha Lauriello, Health, 25 Aug. 2023
  • John Free: There was semen found on her underwear and on her jacket.
    Natalie Morales, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • After depositing semen and eggs in the water, these clam worms die, Weeks said, and the process starts again the following year.
    Dustin Barnes, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Swabs taken and preserved in a rape kit revealed semen.
    CBS News, 3 Dec. 2022
  • He was named after George Gee, who worked at Patuxent and collected the semen.
    baltimoresun.com, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The vas deferens tubes, which carry sperm, are tied, cut, clipped or sealed to prevent the release of sperm into the semen.
    Julie Washington, cleveland, 11 July 2022
  • 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
  • The investigators also asked Hair for permission to check his uniforms for semen.
    Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2024

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