How to Use bowel in a Sentence

bowel

noun
  • The engine room is down in the bowels of the ship.
  • They dug deep into the bowels of the earth.
  • One cup, raw and cubed, should get your bowels back on track.
    — Helen Zook, Cosmopolitan, 13 Aug. 2017
  • The same goes for any sudden change in your bowel habits.
    — Abby Norman, Verywell Health, 8 June 2026
  • Doctors told him that his bowel just needed time to heal.
    — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Those wayward cells can even clamp onto your bowels and grow there.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Out in the dining room with the customers and in the bowels of the kitchen with the staff.
    — Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY, 8 June 2018
  • And other red flag symptoms may include a change in your bowel habits.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
  • The first sign may be bladder or bowel trouble, or weakness in the legs.
    — Denise Grady, New York Times, 24 June 2019
  • Doctors found tears to his bowels likely caused by blows to the stomach.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • There are whole sections of the lower bowels that are not finished.
    — Avi Creditor, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The holding area in the bowels of the venue was a babel of the world’s languages.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Feb. 2018
  • One one side of the bowel were pieces of rockfish, fresh greens and cherry tomatoes.
    — Margie Goldsmith, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • Their necks were broken and they were dragged away to the bush to be impaled, their bowels punctured.
    — Adam L. Rovner, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Their heads are twizzling, their eyes bulging, their teeth ground to the gums, their bowels distended.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Follow the roller coaster ride that your bags make into the bowels of the airport.
    — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Or the grass-cutting ants that cultivate farms of fungi in the bowels of the earth.
    — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 7 Jan. 2018
  • Lane called 911, but had a urine and bowel leak issue and left the restaurant.
    — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • During this procedure, the patient does the full bowel prep to clean out their colon.
    — Theresa Sullivan Barger, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In each of the crawler’s bowels are two main engines of the size found in locomotives or ships.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 29 June 2019
  • Parking yourself in a chair for hours on end is also thought to bring your bowels to a screeching halt.
    — Julia Ries, SELF, 11 Jan. 2024
  • If your bowels seem to go on the fritz every time a wave of stress hits, that’s no coincidence.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The tissue can also spread to other parts of the body such as the bladder, bowels and even the lungs.
    — Chandelis Duster, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
  • And filling the patient’s belly with air might have opened up the hole, freeing the bowel.
    — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Today, though, there is nothing but bowel-twisting shock.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Try bowel training, to encourage yourself to poop, at the same time each day.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 14 Oct. 2025
  • To give my small bowel a rest and time to heal, my doctors put me on TPN.
    — Denise Teter, Philly.com, 11 July 2018
  • Nearby, a cat bursts from the bowels of a mouldering armchair.
    — NBC News, 16 June 2018
  • These muscles are known as the pelvic floor, a group of muscles that support the bladder, bowel, and uterus.
    — Sarah Klein, Health, 1 June 2024
  • Normally fans don’t get to see this game because it’s played in the lower bowels of most rinks around the league.
    — The Athletic Nhl Staff, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024

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