How to Use bile in a Sentence

bile

noun
  • That last bit involves strangling on the spit and bile in my mouth.
    — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
  • 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
  • The bears live like that for years, milked for bile, withering away.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • Her bile was green, and so were her fingernails and the whites of her eye.
    — National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2016
  • The toxic crude oil component was found in the bile of the fish.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Some people notice the bitter taste of bile in the back of the throat.
    — Serena Gordon, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • When there are no bile ducts left, bile builds up in the body, causing liver damage.
    — Korin Miller, Flow Space, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Fiber binds with bile acids in the gut, so the liver has to use cholesterol to produce more bile.
    — Cynthia Sass, Health, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Responding to this pile of bile, Biden was hardly a choir boy.
    — Frank Bruni New York Times, Star Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Stool can become white or clay colored without the presence of bile.
    — Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 23 Sep. 2025
  • May all your future text conversations be filled with love and bile.
    — Chris Gayomali, GQ, 17 July 2017
  • Flush of salt water, bile and rays of sunlight thrust into the mouths of the devout.
    — Hazlitt, 17 May 2023
  • His wife, Kyle Redford, said the cause was cancer of the bile ducts.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The gallbladder stores bile, a fluid the liver makes that helps break down fat.
    — Qin Rao, Verywell Health, 16 Oct. 2024
  • When Obama won, for a time black tongues were scraped of bitterness and bile.
    — Imani Perry, Time, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Again, Logan managed to thwart an alliance against him through luck and bile.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • That is what happened to my bear Robinson, who was forced to suffer for years on a bile farm.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
  • This allows bile to drain out of the liver and is used to prevent liver failure.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Bear bile farming is now banned in Vietnam, but there are still dozens of bears stuck on farms, caged and alone.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
  • As soon as the column went online, my inbox filled with a torrent of bile that left me happy.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Trump is not the first President to feel the bile boiling within.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 May 2017
  • The corners draw samples of blood, urine, bile and vitreous from the eyes of the deceased.
    — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Bears About the House, which included scenes from bear-bile farms in Laos.
    — Stephen Armstrong, Wired, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Not the beautiful green of moss on the Icelandic plains in the summer, but the green of bile.
    — Joseph Earl Thomas, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
  • China is the center of the industry and of demand for bear bile products.
    — Author: Simon Denyer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2018
  • 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
  • Jacob was born with biliary atresia, a rare disease of the liver and bile ducts that can be deadly.
    — CBS News, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The report noted that the dog's stomach was mostly empty except for small amounts of hair and bile.
    — CBS News, 15 Mar. 2025

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