How to Use birth control in a Sentence

birth control

noun
  • Well, that depends on your current birth control methods.
    Sara Lindberg, SELF, 21 Dec. 2021
  • In many instances, patients didn’t need to be convinced to consider birth control.
    Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2022
  • However, one aspect of that topic not often discussed is male birth control.
    Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
  • With or without birth control, our skin can be a mirror for our 40-something hormonal upheaval.
    Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2022
  • This effect may also delay how certain medications, such as birth control, are absorbed in the stomach and work in the body.
    Kirstyn Hill, Pharmd, Mph, Health, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Sometimes birth control alone isn’t enough to really make a difference in hormonal acne.
    Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Also, for other options, there are birth control pills and IUDs that do not have hormones and do not have the same breast cancer risk.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Today, most birth control is provided by government institutions for free.
    Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Patients can take testosterone alongside hormonal birth control or other hormone therapies.
    Laken Brooks, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Combination hormonal birth control, which contains the hormones estrogen and progestin, helps keep hormones balanced and skin clear.
    Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Broader religious and moral exemptions could also be granted to employers, who could opt out of paying for birth control, and to health providers, who could then refuse to prescribe or dispense the medicine.
    Tina Reed, Axios, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The right to birth control could very well be the next target.
    Mark Kelly and Gabby Giffords, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024
  • This has been enough birth control to last me at least 10 years.
    R29 Team, refinery29.com, 11 Sep. 2024
  • What would be the safest way for someone my age to get birth control?
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Included was The Pill in 1975, one of the first songs to discuss birth control.
    Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The mother called and asked if her daughter should go on birth control.
    Sarah Stankorb, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Here's a brief overview of male birth control through the centuries.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 7 July 2024
  • The news came as a shock because Fiona's father died in 2017, and Bibi has been on birth control.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Bill Baird, the ‘father’ of birth control, on the religious right and Supreme Court.
    Brittany Levine Beckman, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2024
  • That said though, it shouldn’t be used as daily birth control.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Read More Once the over-the-counter birth control pill is available, what about cost and coverage?
    Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 19 July 2023
  • Cramping is the main birth control side effect for IUD users.
    Heather Viggiani, Glamour, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Much of the change was attributed to wider knowledge of long-lasting birth control, like the IUD.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 1 June 2023
  • About 10 weeks ago, the birth control failed between the woman and her partner.
    Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The right to access birth control was enshrined in a 1965 Supreme Court ruling.
    Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 5 June 2024
  • The same is true for people who have just come off of hormonal birth control.
    Lindsay Modglin, Health, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Chan said birth control can be a good option for some, but not all, of her PCOS patients.
    Caroline Hopkins, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2024
  • The low risk procedure is widely known as a form of male birth control.
    Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The previous year, the court sanctioned birth control for the unwed.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 8 June 2022
  • Meanwhile, there are other forms of male birth control in the pipeline.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024

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