How to Use bolus in a Sentence
bolus
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The remaining billion-plus bolus that the NIH has to spend?
—Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2021
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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
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The feature is used for bolus insulin dosing, said the company.
—Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Soda or carbonated water bubbles can help break down the food bolus too.
—Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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If taken in a large, bolus dose, beta-alanine will typically induce this feeling.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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