How to Use bile in a Sentence

bile

noun
Definition of bilenext
Synonyms for bilenext
  • The half-hour series spews its bile with eloquence and conviction that provide their own momentum, at least to start.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2024
  • 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

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