How to Use gill in a Sentence

gill

noun
  • It is stocked to the gills with bass.
    — Outside Online, 30 July 2025
  • Jeff whacked it on the head, then ripped a gill.
    — Kim Cross, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Them gills is sharp as razors, too.
    — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The garage is packed to the gills and this project needs to start there.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The garage is packed to the gills, and this project needs to start there.
    — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024
  • On the underside of its cap are white gills and spores.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Some had big bumps on their back; others had pus behind their gills.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • But dude, it is stocked to the gills with, uh, pun intended.
    — Outside Online, 30 July 2025
  • And like these blue gills are like huge 'cause nobody fishes on this lake.
    — Outside Online, 30 July 2025
  • Fish move water across gills rather than air through lungs and nasal passages.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Sharks and rays are taken for their meat, fins, gill plates and liver oil.
    — Catrin Einhorn, Star Tribune, 28 Jan. 2021
  • As Mal looked on, the two men, drunk to the gills, were horsing around.
    — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
  • For fish, their eyes should be clear and well rounded and their gills should be bright red or pink.
    — Justin Miller Communications Specialist Alabama Cooperative Extension System, al, 3 July 2023
  • This is more efficient than gills for breathing air.
    — Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The fish have been found in the gills and cloacal openings of whale sharks and the mouths of lemon sharks.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 11 May 2026
  • The gills are white at first, becoming greenish-gray.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Some have gills, some have lungs; some lay eggs, some don’t; some eat seaweed, some eat other fish.
    — Elise Broach, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Next, the gills and guts are cut away and the blood drained to preserve freshness and flavor.
    — Tom Fowlks, Outdoor Life, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Frogs and toads go from being tadpoles who only have gills to growing lungs.
    — Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 10 May 2024
  • Maintain eye contact with the shark and use a hard object or your hands to jab the nose, gills, and eyes.
    — Jennifer Earl, CBS News, 5 July 2023
  • The wound looked like a gill on a fish, a slim keyhole weeping bright capillary blood.
    — Daniyal Mueenuddin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Pumpkinseed have bright blue, spider web-like markings on their faces and gill plates.
    — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The ‘gills’ built into the ground’s exterior help keep fans cool.
    — Tomás Hill López-Menchero, New York Times, 19 May 2026
  • Unlike other fish species, lungfish have one or two lungs in addition to their gills.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Like other fish, whale sharks breathe through gills, while marine mammals such as true whales breathe using their lungs.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Place cut mushrooms on a sunny windowsill or balcony, with gills facing up, for up to two hours.
    — Philipp Wehsack, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Traditionally fish scales worked with a hook placed under the fish’s gill plate to read the weight.
    — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Instead, freezers across the United States are filled to the gills.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024
  • For this reason, scientists have even likened the homespun structure to a gill.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2021
  • And if a shark stops moving, then water can’t flow through its gills, which can lead to suffocation.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2023

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