How to Use bowel in a Sentence
bowel
noun- The engine room is down in the bowels of the ship.
- They dug deep into the bowels of the earth.
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Out in the dining room with the customers and in the bowels of the kitchen with the staff.
—Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY, 8 June 2018
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The dead shall be buried in the earth’s deepest bowels!
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2019
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The way the trumpets bellow from the bowels of Beale Street.
—Michael Harriot, The Root, 4 Apr. 2018
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Lane called 911, but had a urine and bowel leak issue and left the restaurant.
—Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
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To give my small bowel a rest and time to heal, my doctors put me on TPN.
—Denise Teter, Philly.com, 11 July 2018
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The tissue can also spread to other parts of the body such as the bladder, bowels and even the lungs.
—Chandelis Duster, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
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And all those calibrations trace back to right here, in the bowels of NIST.
—Brian Resnick, Vox, 15 Nov. 2018
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As the dog was being led away to the pet relief area, the dog had a bowel movement of feces and blood near the carousel.
—Matt Rocheleau, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
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The key to less foul-smelling poop is to have a quality bowel movement, Dr. Lee says.
—Jessica Toscano, SELF, 8 July 2022
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The first bowel movement should look dark green and tarry.
—New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
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Follow the roller coaster ride that your bags make into the bowels of the airport.
—Jack Stewart, WIRED, 26 Apr. 2018
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The first sign may be bladder or bowel trouble, or weakness in the legs.
—Denise Grady, New York Times, 24 June 2019
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One one side of the bowel were pieces of rockfish, fresh greens and cherry tomatoes.
—Margie Goldsmith, Forbes, 12 May 2021
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And filling the patient’s belly with air might have opened up the hole, freeing the bowel.
—New York Times, 28 Dec. 2020
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In each of the crawler’s bowels are two main engines of the size found in locomotives or ships.
—Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 29 June 2019
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Mr Liu, in contrast, spent much of his career in the bowels of the state-planning system.
—The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
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These muscles are known as the pelvic floor, a group of muscles that support the bladder, bowel, and uterus.
—Sarah Klein, Health, 1 June 2024
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For all of the following tests, the colon must be clean and free of stool matter, which requires at-home bowel prep.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
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Doctors found tears to his bowels likely caused by blows to the stomach.
—Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 26 Aug. 2019
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During this procedure, the patient does the full bowel prep to clean out their colon.
—Theresa Sullivan Barger, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
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Turns out, that’s one of the deeper, darker queries being explored within the bowels of the park.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 May 2018
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Normally fans don’t get to see this game because it’s played in the lower bowels of most rinks around the league.
—The Athletic Nhl Staff, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
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Their heads are twizzling, their eyes bulging, their teeth ground to the gums, their bowels distended.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
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Although June does end up chained in the bowels of Gilead over her escape, that’s not where her story ends.
—refinery29.com, 9 May 2018
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The Platform closed on a note of hope, with the literal and symbolic rise of a child from the malnourished bowels of the Pit.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2024
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And never shall the two be parted, even by bowel movements.
—Jenny Singer, Glamour, 2 Oct. 2021
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Left for long enough, the buildup can cause the colon to perforate, allowing the contents of the bowel to spill into the abdomen.
—Colleen Stinchcombe, Health.com, 20 Sep. 2021
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The researchers then tracked the effects that 97 different foods had on bowel cancer risk.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 10 Jan. 2025
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