How to Use orifice in a Sentence

orifice

noun
  • The moist orifice of a wound opened up and took the form of a small bullet hole.
    — Brendan Borrell, The Atlantic, 3 July 2020
  • Use the red straw extension again to blast clean the orifices in the float bowl’s screw.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Her back splits open like a raw coconut, her flesh flapping, oozing blood from her new orifice.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 20 May 2024
  • Near the bottom of the fleshy mass, a large, pink orifice emerges from tufts of fuzzy hair with pins jutting out around it.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2017
  • Germar points out that its rounded corners means it can even be stowed in a bodily orifice.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2014
  • The mouth is never a mere orifice, but the seat of an individual’s voice.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The heat exchanger and the orifice, which controls the flow of gas, may also need cleaning.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2020
  • But then weeping pustules appeared all over its body, and fluids poured forth from every orifice.
    — John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Felching To felch is to suck up semen out of an orifice (using a straw is optional).
    — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 15 May 2018
  • When angered or preparing to envelop a victim, the beast flaps its many orifices.
    — Hank Stuever, Houston Chronicle, 6 July 2019
  • When angered or preparing to envelop a victim, the beast flaps its many orifices.
    — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 3 July 2019
  • Amid the swirls and eddies are suggestions of bodily orifices.
    — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 30 May 2018
  • Rather than accepting its fate, the still-living meal escapes your stomach and flees through the nearest orifice.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Bell then take a straw of his own, sticks it into Peck's mouth, and begins sipping liquid from his pal's oral orifice.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Nov. 2025
  • There shall be a natural force causing the water to flow to the surface through a natural orifice.
    — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Ebola kills about half its victims, often through horrific bleeding from all the body’s orifices.
    — New York Times, 11 May 2018
  • None of us, thankfully, has to ponder which orifice to insert the toothbrush in every morning and night.
    — Christian Simpson, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The parasite exploits any open wound or orifice on a wide range of warm-blooded animals to feed its ravenous spawn.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 8 Aug. 2025
  • After visiting this beach’s miles of soft, white sand, you’re guaranteed to have granules in every orifice.
    — Patrick Clair, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2021
  • In another version of the story, Athena just walked out of Zeus’ head through some orifice or other.
    — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • This is the kind of movie where, at any moment, the editor might throw in an insert shot of an oozing orifice, keeping viewers on their toes.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Some people crush up the pills and snort them or inject them; others put pills into various bodily orifices.
    — Sarah Wilson As Told To Maria Carter, Woman's Day, 22 Apr. 2016
  • The power outlet was similar to the cigarette lighter orifice.
    — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 8 July 2017
  • The experts say New World screwworms are different, as females tend to lay eggs in wounds or body orifices, such as the ears or nose.
    — Kara Finnstrom, CBS News, 18 June 2026
  • The freedom of the one existed at the price of the oppression of everyone else, of their reduction, in fact, to mere orifices.
    — Mitchell Abidor, The New York Review of Books, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Especially if the players in front of Oettinger insist on having the game shoved down every orifice of their body.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Gases that build up after death can be expelled through any orifice in the body, including the mouth, and may carry infectious virus, the researchers said.
    — Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The final shot shows Caleb screaming as flies crawl over his face, presumably seeking an orifice through which to enter the body and assume control.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 June 2022
  • As a dead person's body can still expel air from the lungs or fluids from the mouth or eyes during handling, proper covering of those orifices is important.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Unlike the hemipenes of males, the researchers found, the hemiclitores remain inside the body and can be found behind the single orifice, or cloaca, along the tail.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023

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