How to Use ejaculation in a Sentence

ejaculation

noun
  • He was greeted with ejaculations of surprise.
  • The two steps of insertion and ejaculation can take no more than a five-count in some species.
    Emily Willingham, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020
  • This is a blockage in the duct that supplies sperm to the urethra during ejaculation.
    Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 1 June 2023
  • So blue balls is the result of not having that release of ejaculation, or orgasm.
    Seventeen Editors, Seventeen, 3 Sep. 2019
  • These can result in ejaculation in males, but what about females?
    Louise Gentle, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Good news for men: Frequent ejaculation appears to be linked to a lower risk for prostate cancer.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 1 Mar. 2018
  • But this brake is released after ejaculation, when semenogelin breaks down and the sperm start swimming.
    Carrie Arnold, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2013
  • These neurons produce a protein, called corazonin, that turns on the ejaculation process.
    National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Not only that, but a 2008 study found that the females' calls during mating increase the likelihood of male ejaculation.
    National Geographic, 12 Aug. 2017
  • What is released then is not precum, but the actual first small emissions of ejaculation.
    Christina Oehler, Health.com, 5 June 2019
  • Vasectomies don’t lead to sterility or changes in ejaculation (other than the lack of sperm), and can often be reversed.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Editor’s picks At first glance, the series appears like a TV-14 rendition of Bridgerton (ejaculation plays far less of a role).
    Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
  • First, a quick bit of background on premature ejaculation (PE).
    Vanessa Marin, Allure, 19 Apr. 2019
  • When the pleasure of ejaculation has been in short supply, the fruit fly heads straight for the bar, choosing liquid food spiked with alcohol over the liquid food that is standard sustenance for fruit flies in the lab.
    Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • New research shows that for male fruit flies, the process of ejaculation might actually be quite pleasurable.
    National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Compare that to Mapplethorpe’s portrait of Dennis Speight naked, holding a spray of calla lilies like a floral ejaculation.
    Arthur Lubow, New York Times, 25 July 2019
  • Men reporting 21 or more ejaculations a month were less likely to get prostate cancer than men who ejaculated four to seven times a month.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 1 Mar. 2018
  • In this case, poor Theroux’s character has a premature ejaculation problem that would be grounds for breakup … if Carrie didn’t love his mom so much.
    Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
  • A premature ejaculation arrives when the baddies make good on their threat and, as terrified faces of all age and stripe meet their gooey end, the soundtrack switches to Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto.
    Jordan Hoffman, VanityFair.com, 16 Mar. 2017
  • One company, called Morari, showed off a prototype of a perineum patch that is supposed to help those who struggle with premature ejaculation.
    Lauren Goode, Wired, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Frequent ejaculation may reduce the risk of prostate cancer and improve sperm motility.
    Yuliya Klochan, Health, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The researchers concluded that daily ejaculation caused sperm counts to decrease.
    Karen Pallarito, Health, 12 May 2023
  • One form of male sterilization that is better known than the rest is the vasectomy, a procedure which blocks the vas deferens, the tubes that carry sperm during ejaculation.
    Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
  • These have been found to prevent ejaculation, but not orgasm—though originally, that outcome was only a side effect.
    Hannah Flynn, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Premature ejaculation is a bigger issue when a man has a partner who can have orgasms from intercourse.
    Time, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Up there with tiger tooth extraction and female bonobo ejaculation sampling is giving a pregnant shark an ultrasound.
    Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2019
  • The gel is designed to block sperm without affecting sensation or ejaculation.
    Wired, 24 July 2022
  • Researchers have found monkeypox in semen, but more research is needed to determine whether ejaculation itself can transmit the virus.
    Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2022
  • But the Embarrassment, singular, which is like, what… a poo stain, premature ejaculation, turning up at your daughter’s wedding drunk?
    Bob Guccione Jr, SPIN, 15 June 2023
  • Others include retrograde ejaculation, in which semen travels backward into the body, and rarer conditions linked to cystic fibrosis.
    Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 16 June 2024

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