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Examples of bull session in a Sentence
The governor had a bull session with his staff.
Recent Examples on the Web
And though their scenes together are way too brief, the Older and Younger Elliott bull sessions give the movie both a spiky-humor rush and a sense of genuine grounding.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
The newspaper’s staff won the Pulitzer for breaking news for a series of stories on a secret audio recording that exposed Los Angeles City Council members scheming in a crass and racist bull session about political power in the city.
—Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
This is a Tom Stoppardesque bull session.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
The entire movie is infused with a revolutionary, Year Zero spirit that becomes as exhausting as an undergraduate bull session.
—Kyle Smith, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022
This gives the book the feel of a late-night dorm-room bull session of an erudite sort.
—Barton Swaim, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
But Mandel has the stylistic elegance and emotional sympathy to make this more than merely an undergraduate bull session.
—Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022
Three days before the running of the Derby, Baffert sat with two reporters, his wife, Jill, and jockey agent Ron Anderson for an hour-long bull session.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2021
The calculations about what should be taught, or better yet what shouldn't be, sound like the workings of an all-night dormitory bull session.
—Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2021
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First Known Use
1919, in the meaning defined above
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“Bull session.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bull%20session. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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