How to Use anus in a Sentence
anus
noun-
To do this, lube up your finger or toy and gently massage the anus.
— Gigi Engle, Teen Vogue, 7 July 2017 -
Wombats have roundish anuses, just like the rest of us mammals.
— Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2018 -
But before there's any more time for a reunion, the alien arrives—a squid thing with some sort of anus mouth filled with teeth.
— Matt Miller, Esquire, 8 May 2017 -
Among these, about 80 percent of cases affect the mouth and throat, while others occur in the anus and penis.
— Gigi Engle, Marie Claire, 14 Dec. 2017 -
Only white-boy crazy makes someone stuff a toy car up his anus while cameras are rolling, like the Jackass crew.
— Michael Harriot, The Root, 11 Oct. 2017 -
Use lube and try using your fingers or a small butt plug by inserting it into the anus.
— Gigi Engle, Teen Vogue, 27 June 2017 -
New moms should place the frozen condom on the perineal area (the area between the anus and vulva) with a washcloth between the skin and condom to prevent freezer burn.
— Jessica Mattern, Woman's Day, 13 Apr. 2017 -
There’s so little distance between their mouths and anuses that their guts send long branches down each leg.
— Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 10 July 2017 -
The anus does not naturally lubricate the way a vagina does.
— Gigi Engle, Teen Vogue, 7 July 2017 -
In a classroom early one morning, before students were in school, Whitehurst poked the man in the anus, prompting the man to call Portland Police.
— OregonLive.com, 20 Mar. 2015 -
For easier entry, insert a toy with a pointed tip into the anus at an angle.
— Lily Herman, Allure, 28 June 2017 -
Menageries living at the start of the small intestine are different from the micropopulations that live down at the anus.
— Jonathan Weiner, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2016 -
A fourth method uses staples to fix the hemorrhoids in place on the tissue wall, keeping them from collapsing and exiting the anus.
— Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 4 July 2017 -
The animals were long thought to live without an anus, but new videos of them pooping show that biologists were not ready for this jelly.
— National Geographic, 13 Aug. 2016 -
The anus lacks vocal cords, of course, but those are nothing special, just flaps to help keep food and water out of our airways; the anal sphincter can buzz like a trumpeter’s mouth anyway, which is almost as good.
— Sam Kean, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017 -
When irritated, this nerve can send shooting pain to the skin around the anus that intensifies during your period.
— Suzannah Weiss, SELF, 19 July 2017 -
That means ensuring that their semen or vaginal fluid do not get inside your vagina, anus, penis or mouth.
— OregonLive.com, 17 July 2017 -
Even your anatomy can play a role in vaginal yeast infections: Women with a short perineum — the area between your vagina and anus — are more susceptible.
— Philly.com, 23 July 2017 -
Syphilis is characterized by firm, round and painless sores, generally on the genitals, anus or mouth.
— Santa Cruz Sentinel, The Mercury News, 10 May 2017 -
Overall, then, evolution easily could have done a U-turn long ago and developed fancier folds around our anuses for rectal talking.
— Sam Kean, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017 -
An infection with this common virus, which is transmitted through intimate skin-to-skin contact, can cause cancer in several areas of the body, including the throat, anus, penis and vagina.
— Susan Scutti, CNN, 16 Oct. 2017 -
Another concern was preserving the structure around Lynlee’s already developed anus and reproductive organs, as part of the tumor extended to her pelvic area.
— Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2016 -
Other infections, such as hookworms and roundworms, can be transmitted in a practice called coprophagia, in which animals ingest one another’s stool or by licking each others’ anuses, Dr. Nandi said in an email.
— Christopher Mele, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2016 -
No less a pornographic luminary than Miss Jenna Jameson offers a surprisingly diverse line of anuses and vaginas, cast from Jenna herself at various stages of contraction.
— John Brownlee, WIRED, 1 May 2007 -
Human studies have found that baby boys who were exposed to higher phthalate levels during fetal development had shorter distances between their anuses and genitals — a measure linked to lower testosterone levels and semen quality later in life.
— New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
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