How to Use bolus in a Sentence

bolus

noun
  • The feature is used for bolus insulin dosing, said the company.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Soda or carbonated water bubbles can help break down the food bolus too.
    — Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Audi's brash little bolus is a design statement that eclipses the Bimmer and anything else in this class.
    — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 1 June 2020
  • Mazlish watched as his wife programmed her insulin pump to deliver both dribbles of basal insulin throughout the day and a large bolus with meals.
    — Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • But true mastery of the subject requires not only a big bolus of math and physics but a whopping expansion of one’s inner vision.
    — Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2017
  • This quick test saves him from wasting a bolus of precious (seriously) sperm on a millipede inamorata from the wrong species.
    — Emily Willingham, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020
  • If taken in a large, bolus dose, beta-alanine will typically induce this feeling.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The next day, the blood cultures all turned positive quickly, proving that a large bolus of colon bacteria must have burst into her bloodstream.
    — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
  • There, he was prescribed brimhana, or tissue regeneration, using a bolus therapy made from goat meat mixed with rice, milk, and spices.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Even though the biggest bolus of sales are behind, the US fall will still be an important milestone for Moderna.
    — Ike Swetlitz, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • First, a fast-acting bolus of toxins temporarily freezes the fish; a second wave induces irreversible paralysis.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The largest effects were observed for melba and cake, which are dry products requiring sufficient saliva to form a coherent bolus safe for swallowing.
    — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2012
  • The new report says the medical team at the hospital gave the patient a common medication to break up blood clots that could cause a stroke, called t-PA bolus.
    — Amanda Sealy, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
  • In a worrying sign for Antarctic wildlife, Borowicz has started finding bits of plastic in bird boluses, lumps of undigested food that birds regurgitate as part of the feeding process.
    — Time, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Unlike the older standard of care, which requires a 60-minute infusion, TNKase can be administered in a single five-second bolus.
    — Time Contributors, Time, 27 Apr. 2026
  • According to the nonprofit organization Beyond Type 1, bolus insulin is a type of insulin taken to prevent glucose spikes after meals.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2022
  • His thesis — that identity politics have distracted activists from the central bolus of economic inequality — certainly feels plausible.
    — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Applied across the more than 600 gigawatts of wind power capacity installed worldwide, either estimate represents an impressive bolus of clean energy that can be seized with little extra investment.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 July 2019
  • Applied across the more than 600 gigawatts of wind power capacity installed worldwide, either estimate represents an impressive bolus of clean energy that can be seized with little extra investment.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 July 2019

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