How to Use bile in a Sentence

bile

noun
  • Biles held on for the bronze, her fourth medal of the Rio Games.
    JerÉ Longman and Carla Correa The New York Times, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2016
  • Some people notice the bitter taste of bile in the back of the throat.
    Serena Gordon, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The toxic crude oil component was found in the bile of the fish.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Apr. 2020
  • His wife, Kyle Redford, said the cause was cancer of the bile ducts.
    Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2020
  • In that case, your bile doesn’t have a chance to become brown, Dr. Shen says.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Her bile was green, and so were her fingernails and the whites of her eye.
    National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2016
  • Two bags are now attached to her abdomen to drain the bile.
    Wayne Drash, CNN, 13 May 2018
  • That last bit involves strangling on the spit and bile in my mouth.
    Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
  • The chants echoing the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the 1930s.
    Joe Biden, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2017
  • The bears live like that for years, milked for bile, withering away.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • The dress was the color of bile, baggy, covered in ruffles, and zipped all the way up to my chin.
    Danielle Sepulveres, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Bears About the House, which included scenes from bear-bile farms in Laos.
    Stephen Armstrong, Wired, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Flush of salt water, bile and rays of sunlight thrust into the mouths of the devout.
    Hazlitt, 17 May 2023
  • In those instances, your bile doesn’t have a chance to become brown, Dr. Shen says.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 30 May 2018
  • And too much bile may increase your risk of gallstones.
    Verywell Health, 21 Feb. 2023
  • It’s like a melee of bone and bile, flesh and fever, every organ taking shots at the next guy.
    Kimberly Potts, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2021
  • The corners draw samples of blood, urine, bile and vitreous from the eyes of the deceased.
    Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Trump is not the first President to feel the bile boiling within.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 May 2017
  • When Obama won, for a time black tongues were scraped of bitterness and bile.
    Imani Perry, Time, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Responding to this pile of bile, Biden was hardly a choir boy.
    Frank Bruni New York Times, Star Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
  • There is no page, no paragraph, not even a line that doesn’t feel crammed with Wright’s comic bile.
    Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
  • At times, the story is propelled only by Gillen’s bile.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2021
  • Mama had Stage 4 bile-duct cancer, with a prognosis of six months to a year to live.
    Noy Thrupkaew, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Researchers first sifted the amino acid taurine from a sample of ox bile in 1827.
    Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 8 June 2023
  • Again, Logan managed to thwart an alliance against him through luck and bile.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Kasie's discovery that the body parts were covered in vulture bile leads them to the rest of Emma's body.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The pancreas can be pressing on the duct that clears the bile out of the liver, and therefore causes jaundice, the yellowness of the eyes.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Carter’s Little Liver Pills were billed as a medicine aiding bile flow in the liver.
    Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2018
  • That's because the estrogen the body produces during pregnancy can lead to higher cholesterol levels in your bile.
    Robin Elise Weiss, Phd, Parents, 1 July 2024
  • The audience, largely voicing partisan vigor and bile for much of the meeting, grew solemn as the Neutras described their ordeal since hearing from their son, Omer, a member of the Israeli military, the day before the Oct. 7 attack.
    Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024

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