How to Use bolus in a Sentence

bolus

noun

• The remaining billion-plus bolus that the NIH has to spend?
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2021
• Audi's brash little bolus is a design statement that eclipses the Bimmer and anything else in this class.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 1 June 2020
• The feature is used for bolus insulin dosing, said the company.
  — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2022
• But true mastery of the subject requires not only a big bolus of math and physics but a whopping expansion of one’s inner vision.
  — Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2017
• The new report says the medical team at the hospital gave the patient a common medication to break up blood clots that could cause a stroke, called t-PA bolus.
  — Amanda Sealy, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
• The next day, the blood cultures all turned positive quickly, proving that a large bolus of colon bacteria must have burst into her bloodstream.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
• This quick test saves him from wasting a bolus of precious (seriously) sperm on a millipede inamorata from the wrong species.
  — Emily Willingham, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020
• Soda or carbonated water bubbles can help break down the food bolus too.
  — Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2022
• In manual mode, there’s what’s known as a dual-wave bolus that allows you to fine-tune doses to reflect different foods or circumstances.
  — David Lazarus, latimes.com, 7 June 2018
• Then again, the whole interconnected extent of the bolus (in the German original) makes it a natural for the Internet and hypertext.
  — Michael Hofmann, The New York Review of Books, 10 Mar. 2020
• In a worrying sign for Antarctic wildlife, Borowicz has started finding bits of plastic in bird boluses, lumps of undigested food that birds regurgitate as part of the feeding process.
  — Time, 9 Apr. 2020
• If taken in a large, bolus dose, beta-alanine will typically induce this feeling.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
• The largest effects were observed for melba and cake, which are dry products requiring sufficient saliva to form a coherent bolus safe for swallowing.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2012
• First, a fast-acting bolus of toxins temporarily freezes the fish; a second wave induces irreversible paralysis.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2021
• Applied across the more than 600 gigawatts of wind power capacity installed worldwide, either estimate represents an impressive bolus of clean energy that can be seized with little extra investment.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024