How to Use progesterone in a Sentence

progesterone

noun

• The patients will get two shots of progesterone a day for five days.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2020
• First, there’s a rise in pregnenolone and progesterone.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 May 2022
• This is due to an increase in progesterone levels in your body.
  — Anna Rahmanan, Parents, 27 Oct. 2023
• In a lot of mammal species, progesterone levels start to drop a few days before birth.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2020
• What happens with menses every month is that the lining of the uterus grows, due to estrogen and progesterone.
  — Katie Heaney, The Cut, 15 Feb. 2018
• The drug dilates the cervix and blocks the effects of the hormone progesterone, which is needed to sustain a pregnancy.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 Feb. 2023
• The first drug, mifepristone, blocks the effects of progesterone, a hormone without which the lining of the uterus begins to break down.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
• Michele started taking a high dose of progesterone to help her body sustain the pregnancy and stayed on bed rest.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 26 Mar. 2021
• Those faintly balmy conditions are linked to a surge in progesterone in the latter half of the menstrual cycle, called the luteal phase.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2018
• Without progesterone, the lining of the uterus breaks down and the pregnancy cannot continue.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
• In other words, a change in the amount of progesterone in the body can impact the way your intestines move waste through and out of your body, by either speeding the process up or slowing it down.
  — Maria Del Russo, Woman's Day, 30 July 2020
• The decrease in your body’s progesterone production can lead to restless nights, too.
  — Maria Del Russo, Woman's Day, 18 June 2020
• First the patient takes a dose of mifepristone, which blocks the hormone progesterone, to stop the pregnancy from growing.
  — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023
• That’s largely thanks to a hormone that helps prep your body for pregnancy called progesterone.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 18 May 2022
• The question is whether the progesterone increases that likelihood and by how much.
  — Bracey Harris, NBC News, 20 July 2024
• One of the consequences of menopause is the decrease in blood levels of two key hormones: estrogen and progesterone.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024
• Her doctor in Poland prescribed her the drug progesterone, meant to fortify the inner lining of the uterus, but Kaja’s pain grew worse.
  — Alexandra Sifferlin, TIME.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• Women are about twice as likely to suffer from IBS, and estrogen and progesterone may play a role.
  — Lashieka Hunter, Good Housekeeping, 4 Jan. 2018
• His hypothesis is that the ratio of progesterone to testosterone in a woman and abrupt changes in the levels of those hormones may be key.
  — Bob Roehr, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2016
• These drugs block the body from producing estrogen and progesterone, which cause the uterine lining to build up.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 20 June 2023
• Mikki's progesterone levels were high on Monday, the tweet said.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 9 July 2019
• Progestin is a synthetic hormone that mimics the effects of progesterone in the body.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 28 Mar. 2023
• Like the Pill and the patch, the vaginal ring—a rubbery circle that looks a bit like a hair tie—works by blocking ovulation with estrogen and progesterone.
  — Emily Shiffer, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2022
• This time, the chatter revolves around Khloé’s low progesterone levels.
  — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 26 Feb. 2018
• The basic unit of the ovary is the follicle, each of which contains a single egg surrounded by the cells that make the hormones estrogen and progesterone.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 16 May 2017
• This makes sense, since estrogen and progesterone levels are high, which can lead to bloating and fatigue.
  — Christine Yu, Outside Online, 6 Sep. 2020
• Zookeepers confirmed the pregnancy with a blood test that showed high levels of progesterone.
  — Washington Post, 6 July 2018
• The zinc found in oysters controls progesterone levels which are said to have a positive effect on the libido.
  — Redbook, 9 Feb. 2011
• Mifepristone blocks a hormone called progesterone that is needed for a pregnancy to continue.
  — Ziva Branstetter, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 2024
• Within three months, most of the transgender men’s testosterone levels entered the typical range for cisgender men while their estradiol (the most potent form of estrogen that is made in the body) and progesterone levels decreased.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024