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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