How to Use trimester in a Sentence

trimester

noun
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  • 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
  • But toward the end of the second trimester, her water broke.
    — Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 5 May 2022
  • My first trimester came with a lot of nausea and food aversions.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The new law would move that to up to 15 weeks, shortly after the beginning of the first trimester.
    — Topher Gauk-Roger, PEOPLE.com, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Dear Amy: Forty years ago, my wife was pregnant for one trimester.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 29 Feb. 2024
  • This led them to drop out of college after two trimesters.
    — Emily Withnall, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The restrictions in the Texas law are imposed during the first trimester.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 4 Sep. 2021
  • During the first trimester, the uterus still has a very thick wall and is protected by the bones in the pelvic girdle.
    — Krissi Danielsson, Parents, 30 July 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
  • Most abortions are performed in the first trimester by one of two methods.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 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
  • Next is Virginia, where it is allowed prior to the third trimester.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Despite her denial, Kourtney was in her first trimester when the scene was filmed in April.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Trisomy 18 can be diagnosed by a blood test toward the end of the first trimester.
    — Gina Kolata Kim Raff, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Rachel refused, and Derek left during her first trimester.
    — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The March of Dimes also states that about 80% of miscarriages occur before the 12 week mark (in the first trimester).
    — Casey Clark, Parents, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The measure aims to prohibit the state from banning abortions before the end of the first trimester.
    — USA TODAY, 14 June 2024
  • Studies show that upward of 90% of abortions are performed in the first trimester.
    — Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2021
  • 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
  • At Michigan, pregnant trainees in their third trimester are not placed on shifts longer than 12 hours and don’t take overnight calls.
    — Miriam Shuchman, STAT, 9 May 2022
  • More than 80% of abortions occur in the first nine weeks of pregnancy, and 6% occur during the second trimester.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024

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