How to Use pubic in a Sentence

pubic

adjective
  • Move the right hand across the body, below the navel and above the pubic bone.
    Katie Chang, Bon Appetit, 19 June 2017
  • Move the right hand across the body, below the navel and above the pubic bone.
    Katie Chang, Bon Appetit, 19 June 2017
  • The rashes can appear on the body, the thigh, the crease of the thigh, the pubic region and the face.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 May 2023
  • Most adults in the U.S. shave, wax or groom their pubic hair.
    Alice Park, PEOPLE.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The next day, the right side of her pubic hair turned white, while the left half remained black.
    Popular Science, 27 Jan. 2020
  • The same breasts, the same pubic hair, the same silly poses.
    Bob Larsen, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Any hair can turn gray, and that goes for pubic hair, too.
    Tracee Cornforth, Verywell Health, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Brace your core and press your pubic bone into the floor.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 27 June 2018
  • But somewhere along the way in the last few decades, patches of pubic hair have shrunk in size.
    Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Mons Mist is a conditioning spray for pubic hair and the skin in the area.
    Shalwah Evans, Essence, 22 Oct. 2019
  • This Brad stole Samantha’s cab and then asked her to shave her pubic hair.
    Kelly Conaboy, The Cut, 6 June 2018
  • Crab louse eggs were found attached to the pubic hairs of a 2,000-yr-old Chilean mummy.
    Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2017
  • Beauty standards about pubic hair have come a long way in the last few years.
    Deanna Pai, Glamour, 4 July 2018
  • The pubic bone and hip bones should be heavily pressed into the mat.
    Angela Peterson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Pull your pubic hair out in clumps from the root and send it in unmarked envelopes to technocrats.
    Longreads, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Auelkhan said female guards used chewing gum to pull on her pubic hair.
    Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The development of the pubic hair corresponds to a mean age of 15.2.
    Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
  • In her cases, the girls were already in the early stages of puberty, with breast buds and pubic hair.
    Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2022
  • By chance, a scan revealed an issue in the cartilage of her pubic arch.
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Nassar treated the injury with acupuncture to not just the shoulder but his pubic area as well.
    Jennifer Summer, Houston Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The video showcases models' pubic hair in various states, from a clean shave to a full bush.
    Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 26 June 2019
  • There’s a bikini wax, where the hair on the sides and top area along the bikini line is removed, and then there’s a Brazilian, which leaves your entire pubic area bare (!).
    Nerisha Penrose and Starr Savoy, ELLE, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Selling to a pubic-sector bank reflects the growing role of the state in the Russian economy.
    The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Not removing your pubic hair is the best way to prevent ingrowns.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Wilson said Lloyd put his hands in her underwear and touched her buttock and pubic area.
    CBS News, 6 Mar. 2018
  • But a merkin is also a pubic wig, worn by men and women to cover the unsightly effects of syphilis.
    Toby Zinman, Philly.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • This is a film with the audacity to turn the color of a puppet’s pubic hair into a pivotal plot point.
    Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 24 Aug. 2018
  • That's also why many ingrown hairs occur in the pubic area, because hair tends to be curlier down there.
    Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 18 June 2019
  • The photo features a completely nude Kim (with her nipples and pubic area blurred out).
    Alison Caporimo, Seventeen, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Samantha’s trainer/lover shaving her pubic hair into the shape of a lightning bolt.
    Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024

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