How to Use bodily in a Sentence

bodily

1 of 2 adjective
  • The victim suffered serious bodily injury.
  • He is charged with eight counts of child abuse without great bodily harm.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Anything that could cause fear of bodily harm.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Is there an Adult Swim show more steeped in bodily fluids?
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
  • All the bodily functions that cancer had thrown out of whack were now carried out in the bed.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Both men were arrested on felony charges of battery and child abuse with no great bodily harm.
    — Sofia Saric june 30, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
  • Courtiers instead washed with alcohol rubs and used scents to mask bodily odors.
    — Thomas Adamson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
  • She was then arrested and charged with child neglect with great bodily harm.
    — April 10, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Physicians work those hours, and we are trained to override the bodily signals that would tell us to stop.
    — Frances Mei Hardin, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2026
  • Nikol Marie Rodriguez was charged with one count of child abuse with no great bodily harm.
    — Larry Seward, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Pay close attention to your bodily cues.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • This mode of destruction is an outlier and not just for its bodily harm.
    — James Hansen, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Also avoid the bodily fluids of anyone who has come in contact with the virus.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 29 Jan. 2026
  • She was charged with leaving the scene of a crash with serious bodily injury.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Pierre was charged with abuse of an elderly or disabled adult without great bodily harm.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Others showed signs of bruising or other bodily harm.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The virus is spread through close contact with sick or deceased patients’ bodily fluids.
    — Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
  • The virus is spread through close contact with sick or deceased patients' bodily fluids.
    — CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • The official charges for the couple are child abuse without great bodily harm.
    — Abby Dodge, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • This is the enzyme that can break down protein stains like eggs and milk, plus blood, urine and other bodily fluids.
    — goodhousekeeping.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Live through every moment, each meal and bodily function.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The message in both shows is that there can be joy and freedom in bodily autonomy.
    — Mikayla Dawson, Women's Health, 23 June 2023
  • Lyons was booked for assault likely to produce great bodily injury.
    — Tim Fang, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • But the danger there is that words take over and silences and bodily awareness disappear.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 June 2026
  • The virus spreads through contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person — alive or dead.
    — Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
  • The virus spreads through contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person — alive or dead.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 20 May 2026
  • The virus spreads through contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person — alive or dead.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
  • The virus spreads through contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person — alive or dead.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026
  • She was charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon and inflicting great bodily injury.
    — Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • But findings over the past few decades show that the bodily self is surprisingly malleable.
    — Utkarsh Gupta, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2026

bodily

2 of 2 adverb
  • The house will have to be moved bodily to the new site.
  • The blast lifted him bodily into the air.
  • Sanda stared at the goop and bodily fluid pool growing around her foot.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 11 June 2019
  • Normally served on the street, ya dong’s herbal powers are said to cure bodily ails.
    — Natalie B. Compton, GQ, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Avoid contact with blood and bodily fluids from people who are sick.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
  • There are other bodily rhythms, indeed, that follow the same rule-less rule.
    — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2017
  • He’s also just matured as a bodily human as well as an actor.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Slapstick and bodily functions aside, one era’s side-splitter often leaves the next era stone-faced.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Those who refused to move were bodily escorted out by police.
    — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 June 2021
  • Throwing bodily fluids on people is just gross.
    — Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But as the year wore on, and our choices and bodily autonomy shrank, our feeling about the song changed.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 4 Jan. 2024
  • But as the year wore on, and our choices and bodily autonomy shrank, our feelings about the song changed.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Explore what happens inside the brain during times of stress and how to self-regulate your brain and bodily states.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2023
  • Monk and her company’s singing style could be described as bodily, the voice an extension of limbs and emotions.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 12 June 2019
  • Garcia, of Riverview High School, was charged with threats to kill or do bodily injury, a felony.
    — Tiffini Theisen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • We are bodily immersed in this show, and very, very far from the lonely, make-do experience of streaming theater.
    — New York Times, 2 June 2021
  • Natural lube Blood is a bodily fluid ulike anything else that comes out of our genitals, peeps.
    — Arielle Egozi, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 July 2018
  • But the novel’s achievement is that we are forced to experience this insight almost bodily.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • There is, of course, power to be gained by a beautiful woman who is willing to transgress the boundaries of bodily modesty.
    — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The caller told police a man in the home was threatening bodily harm while dumping cans of gasoline inside the home, Young said.
    — Janelle Walker, Elgin Courier-News, 6 Sep. 2017
  • There may also be a nipple discharge of blood or bodily fluids other than milk, skin irritation, redness or flaky skin.
    — Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The disease causes internal bleeding and spreads rapidly through contact with small amounts of bodily fluid.
    — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 17 May 2018
  • The Cameroon players all went over to their bench, the non-scorer Nchout was in tears and at one point was pulled bodily back into the pitch by her teammates.
    — SI.com, 23 June 2019
  • Just as physical pain evolved to alert us to bodily danger, the mental anguish of loneliness alerts us to the danger of isolation.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Time, 6 June 2023
  • In plainer terms, what the young artist reaches for is transport; art and bodily experience provide the vehicle.
    — Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, clotting is a natural and often lifesaving bodily function that helps stop bleeding when we’re injured.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
  • But the child has suffered bodily injury from the blood infections and radiation he'd been exposed to, the documents say.
    — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Research shows that engaging the senses fosters bodily awareness, which helps regulate stress.
    — Juli Fraga, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The withdrawal from fantasy can be bodily, full of aches and illness, followed by thoughts of rage, suicide, new addictions, and despair.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Roughly the length of a finger, the insects fly together by the millions and are devouring crops and forcing people in some areas to bodily wade through them.
    — Elias Meseret, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2020

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