How to Use birth control pill in a Sentence

birth control pill

noun
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  • The world might be a lot closer to a birth control pill for men.
    — Doug Criss, CNN, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The use of condoms increased, as did the use of birth control pills.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2018
  • The female birth control pill has stood on the market alone for decades.
    — Julia Zorthian, Time, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Researchers first began work on a male birth control pill in the 1970s.
    — Andrew Marquardt, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Certain birth control pills also have been found to raise the risk.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The birth control pill, called Opill, was first approved for use in 1973 — if prescribed.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2022
  • The drug, with the brand name of Opill, is a progestin-only birth control pill to be taken daily.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 11 July 2022
  • When [Somerhalder] threw out all my birth control pills.
    — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The researchers attribute a great deal of this increase to women’s access to the birth control pill.
    — Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • Most of the latest technologies don’t take the form of a hormonal birth control pill, though.
    — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Then a gloss of Pear Drops toothpaste, her pick of six varieties of hair dryer, and birth control pills.
    — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
  • But a male birth control pill that is both safe and effective may be on the horizon, according to a new study.
    — Mark Lieber, CNN, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Women can get several types of birth control pills, as well as the birth control patch and ring through the Nurx app and website.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • What everyone’s talking about A once-a-month birth control pill?
    — Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Research had linked birth control pills to a modest increase in breast cancer decades ago.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
  • The latest effort to come up with a male birth control pill has found a formulation that appears to be safe.
    — NBC News, 19 Mar. 2018
  • No tests, no explanations—just birth control pills shoved in my face.
    — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 June 2017
  • Uninsured customers, on the other hand, must pay upfront for birth control pills.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The Catholic Church condemned the birth control pill, preachers linked it to promiscuity and politicians urged pharmacies to pull the product from the shelves.
    — Steve Marble, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
  • For the first time, a pharmaceutical company has asked for permission to sell a birth control pill over the counter in the U.S.
    — Matthew Perrone, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2022
  • Almost 50% of pregnancies in the U.S. are still unplanned or mistimed, even though the first birth control pill was sold almost 60 years ago.
    — Sarah Lynch, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The research, funding, and social activism that led to the first birth control pill, Enovid — and allowed women across the country to use it.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Last month, for the first time a pharmaceutical company asked for permission to sell a birth control pill over the counter in the U.S.
    — CBS News, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Like the tags, the backs of the shopping bags relate the biographical import of each object: birth control pills, pieces of clothing and, of course, chairs.
    — Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Her contributions proved invaluable, and the birth control pill came on the market in 1960.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 21 Jan. 2017
  • Clinical trials for a birth control pill for men took place in the 1970s, when the pill for women was becoming mainstream.
    — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2022
  • So, a male birth control pill that lowers testosterone (and sperm production) would need to do so without all the side effects of low testosterone.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The findings don't necessarily mean that teenage girls shouldn't take birth control pills, the researchers wrote.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 30 Oct. 2019
  • In general, the birth control pill also reduces the risk of several types of cancer.
    — Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • This works out to a perfect-use effectiveness of 99 percent, which is the same perfect-use number as birth control pills.
    — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 29 Aug. 2018

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