tampon

Example Sentences

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"I didn't know the difference between a pad and a tampon," she said.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025

I got my period and asked a woman in the train station for a tampon.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2024

It's childish and weird to act like even looking at a tampon box will emasculate you.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2024

Allusions to the royal family’s bloody colonial past, Charles and Camilla’s infamous tampon scandal and the family’s current woes, including the king’s recent cancer diagnosis, ran rampant.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

So she stored everything on a thumb drive and hid it in a tampon box in the bathroom they shared.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence