How to Use gall in a Sentence

gall

1 of 2 noun

• The cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity, and the gumption.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2021
• Cory wipes the gall coming from the other end of the phone and makes a plan.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2021
• His reign was cut prematurely short by a bull that had the gall to fight back.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2021
• But in terms of pure gall, there was something different this time, David E. Sanger writes.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
• But for pure gall, there was something different this time.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
• But for pure gall, there was something different about the balloon.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
• But gall was in abundant supply in the risk-tolerant world of crypto.
  — Ben McKenzie, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
• Above the books hangs a swath of raw linen adorned with oak galls — scabs shed from the trees Argote passes on routine walks in her neighborhood of Boyle Heights.
  — Jennifer Piejko, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• The case drew even more press, partly for the lawyers’ gall in coming back for another round against the behemoth of the U.S. government.
  — Nate Berg, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2020
• Sun bears’ gall bladders are used in some Chinese folk medicine, and their paws are a high-end delicacy.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• The sprouts formed by crown or leaf gall will be twisted, bulbous, or otherwise misshapen.
  — oregonlive, 12 Mar. 2023
• With the excitement just hours old, Dylan Hernández has the brazen gall to decide McVay might not return as coach.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• Jean-Louis Petit performed gall bladder surgery in Europe in 1743.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2022
• Sarver, according to reports, had the gall to bristle at the punishment.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2022
• No cause was given, but Dow had been in hospice care and announced in May that he had been diagnosed with prostate and gall bladder cancer.
  — Dallas News, 27 July 2022
• The big-ag boys, forever hating Chavez and Huerta for their gall, grew only richer and more entrenched.
  — Mark Arax, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• Shannon is clearly piping mad that a leathery weasel has the gall to say this to him on national television.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2023
• Eventually, the larvae become adult insects and tunnel out of the gall.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2020
• The digestive system is made up of the digestive tract, liver, pancreas, and gall bladder.
  — Jon Goodwin, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2022
• Insect and mite galls are common on trees and shrubs throughout the Chicago area and generally are nothing to be concerned about.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2023
• Leaf galls rarely cause serious harm because unaffected leaf tissue on the plant, and even on the same leaf, will continue to produce food for the plant.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2023
• The agency takes extreme precaution to slow the degradation of these fragile records, made of parchment and featuring iron gall ink.
  — Sean Catangui, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• The staffers seem slightly intrigued by his lyrical punch lines, and by his gall, but no record deal immediately results.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2022
• The biologists also hunt for gall crabs that burrow into corals.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• Samples of bile, gall bladders and kidneys also were taken to assess overall health.
  — al, 21 July 2022
• In South Korea, farmers aren’t allowed to extract bile from living bears – but are allowed to kill farmed bears over 10 years old, and sell their gall bladders to be milked for bile, Garshelis said.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 3 June 2023
• To set up a promo stand in a state where your company was currently embroiled in litigation against that state took a certain kind of gall.
  — Ben McKenzie, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
• Applying a control is not really necessary, as there will not be any lasting harm to your birch tree because of this gall.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2021
• Perry had the gall to run radio ads in California urging companies to move to Texas—using the lack of a personal income tax as bait.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• Dear Miss Manners: I’m often flummoxed by some people’s gall, but this situation, in my humble opinion, takes the cake.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 July 2023

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gall

2 of 2 verb

• It galls me that such a small group of people can have so much power.
• This is the galling thing about the GOP’s entanglement with Trump.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
• Some of the things are galling, like building an extra day in for directors to do a director’s cut off of producer notes.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
• Its failure to convict Trump understandably galls many of his opponents — left, right, and center.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023
• Bouts could stretch to galling lengths, with little discernible action, before winding their way to unsatisfying, humdrum endings.
  — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
• The inflation of the past three years is especially galling for autoworkers, who agreed to give up automatic cost-of-living increases in 2008 when two of the Big Three filed for bankruptcy and had to be bailed out by the federal government.
  — Bypaige Hagy, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
• Video calls slavery a ‘compromise’ Critics have been particularly galled by PragerU’s history lessons related to slavery.
  — Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
• Particularly galling was the CDC’s taking the non-scientific advice of teachers’ unions while developing guidance on school reopening.
  — The Editors, National Review, 22 June 2023
• Scrambling, mostly futilely, for publishers in other countries, he was also clearly galled by the commercially more successful writer’s unwillingness to leave his German publishers and readers.
  — Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
• It galls me that such a small group of people can have so much power.
• This is the galling thing about the GOP’s entanglement with Trump.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
• Some of the things are galling, like building an extra day in for directors to do a director’s cut off of producer notes.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
• Its failure to convict Trump understandably galls many of his opponents — left, right, and center.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023
• Bouts could stretch to galling lengths, with little discernible action, before winding their way to unsatisfying, humdrum endings.
  — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
• The inflation of the past three years is especially galling for autoworkers, who agreed to give up automatic cost-of-living increases in 2008 when two of the Big Three filed for bankruptcy and had to be bailed out by the federal government.
  — Bypaige Hagy, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
• Video calls slavery a ‘compromise’ Critics have been particularly galled by PragerU’s history lessons related to slavery.
  — Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
• Particularly galling was the CDC’s taking the non-scientific advice of teachers’ unions while developing guidance on school reopening.
  — The Editors, National Review, 22 June 2023
• Scrambling, mostly futilely, for publishers in other countries, he was also clearly galled by the commercially more successful writer’s unwillingness to leave his German publishers and readers.
  — Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
• It galls me that such a small group of people can have so much power.
• This is the galling thing about the GOP’s entanglement with Trump.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
• Some of the things are galling, like building an extra day in for directors to do a director’s cut off of producer notes.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
• Its failure to convict Trump understandably galls many of his opponents — left, right, and center.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023
• Bouts could stretch to galling lengths, with little discernible action, before winding their way to unsatisfying, humdrum endings.
  — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
• The inflation of the past three years is especially galling for autoworkers, who agreed to give up automatic cost-of-living increases in 2008 when two of the Big Three filed for bankruptcy and had to be bailed out by the federal government.
  — Bypaige Hagy, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
• Video calls slavery a ‘compromise’ Critics have been particularly galled by PragerU’s history lessons related to slavery.
  — Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
• Particularly galling was the CDC’s taking the non-scientific advice of teachers’ unions while developing guidance on school reopening.
  — The Editors, National Review, 22 June 2023
• Scrambling, mostly futilely, for publishers in other countries, he was also clearly galled by the commercially more successful writer’s unwillingness to leave his German publishers and readers.
  — Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
• It galls me that such a small group of people can have so much power.
• This is the galling thing about the GOP’s entanglement with Trump.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
• Some of the things are galling, like building an extra day in for directors to do a director’s cut off of producer notes.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023

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