How to Use trimester in a Sentence

trimester

noun
  • The impact of cannabis use was seen in the middle of the first trimester.
    Linda Carroll, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2022
  • My wife was in her first trimester, which was hard on her body.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
  • When the couple arrived in May 2020, Luzette was in her third trimester.
    Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2022
  • The news rattled Sanchez, who was already in her third trimester.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The 2019 ruling came in the early stages of the lawsuit over the ban on the second-trimester procedure.
    John Hanna, ajc, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Of the ones coming in the first trimester, more than half of them had no plan for prenatal care.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • This led them to drop out of college after two trimesters.
    Emily Withnall, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The vast majority of abortions in the U.S. — about 91% — occur in the first trimester.
    Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • In the lead-up to the U.S. Open, Olson has continued to play while in her final trimester.
    Jill Lupupa, Peoplemag, 4 July 2023
  • In the middle of the second trimester, things got trickier.
    Holly Jordan, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Willa was 18 months old when the couple brought her home to Nashville, and Akins was in her third trimester with Ada James.
    Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
  • Despite her denial, Kourtney was in her first trimester when the scene was filmed in April.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Rachel refused, and Derek left during her first trimester.
    Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The fourth trimester refers to the 12 weeks after pregnancy, and attention moves from the mother to the infant.
    Geri Stengel, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • In practice, nearly 93% of abortions are in the first trimester, and less than 1% occur in the third, according to the CDC.
    Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2022
  • So my dietician is in the book and gives advice for every trimester.
    Wendy Geller, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Then, like now, most abortions occurred during the first trimester.
    Moira Donegan, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Most had mild cases and most infections occurred in the third trimester.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2022
  • Nearly nine out of 10 of them were in the first trimester, according to tracking by the Ohio Department of Health.
    cleveland, 7 Oct. 2022
  • But again, just on that issue of third trimester abortions, should there be restrictions to that?
    NBC News, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The same vaccine is now approved for pregnant people in their third trimester.
    Alice Park, Time, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Average wait times grew from less than two weeks to more than three weeks for first trimester abortions.
    Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022
  • In terms of its highs and its lows, Saturday seemed to stick closely to the pattern of days that come at the end of the first trimester of September.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Hines, a mother of two, was also in her first trimester of pregnancy.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Monica was in her third trimester of pregnancy when she was found stabbed to death in her home in Heflin.
    Averi Kremposky, Peoplemag, 3 July 2023
  • Ethically, why would the third trimester be different from the first one?
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 July 2022
  • Indeed, only about 10% of abortions came after the first trimester.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 July 2022
  • Second trimester calmed down a bit, but Zika put a dent in any glamorous babymoon plans.
    Nina F. Ichikawa, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2023
  • In the third trimester, growing breast size and a changing center of gravity are likely to blame.
    Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Her pregnancy could rupture and cause a hemorrhage in the first trimester.
    Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2023

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