tampon

Example Sentences

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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

Elizabeth Hall, founder of the Hygiene Bank which delivered more than £300,000 of donations during the pandemic, and Laura Coryton, who campaigned for scrapping of the so-called tampon tax on period products both become MBEs.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2023

A few weeks later, Izzy had been digging through her bag, desperately looking for a tampon, when Deja had discreetly leaned across the aisle and extended a folded hand.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng