Menstruation

//ˌmɛnstɹuːˈeɪʃən//

"Menstruation" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Is your menstruation normal?

Menopause is the end of menstruation.

A paycheque is like menstruation. It comes once a month but only lasts a week.

During puberty girls begin menstruation.

Amanda didn’t understand what menstruation was.

Daniel asked Amanda why she never taught their daughter about menstruation.

Amanda knows everything about menstruation.

Every girl gets menstruation.

Menstruation, or period, is normal vaginal bleeding that occurs as part of a woman's monthly cycle.

The U.N. says the day is meant to promote the idea that menstruation is a biological process so girls and women can menstruate without fear or shame, and without being exposed to greater vulnerability.

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It would seem that in Avebury, Stonehenge, and Malta the mystery cult of menstruation/mensuration reached its most consummate development.

[T]he release of semen from the penis predominantly symbolizes a forceful masculine operation, an orgasmic ‘rush’ – ejaculate refers to a sudden happening, an ejection – while the ‘loss’ of blood during menstruation is viewed as a more or less passive occurrence. Even the metaphors employed to depict these two aspects of corporeality serve to situate them on differently gendered poles. Man ‘spoofs off’ or ‘shoots his load’, while woman ‘gets her visitor’, ‘has got her monthly’.

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