How to Use bilious in a Sentence

bilious

adjective

• The death chamber is nine feet by twelve feet, painted a bilious turquoise.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
• And may this be a lesson to never make contact with your sibling’s bilious male offspring again.
  — Richard Lawson, vanityfair.com, 19 July 2017
• The themes seemed familiar, the outsider's distrust of the systems and structures of the state, a more bilious paranoia.
  — Michael Paterniti, GQ, 7 Mar. 2018
• His purified Afrofuture keeps paling in the bilious light of the real past.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2022
• The Finnish cocktail is usually a mix of gin and grapefruit soda, sort of a more bilious Paloma.
  — Vulture, 29 Sep. 2022
• Color is a bilious miasma, golden tones sliding into flashes of brightness that collapse into queasy hues.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Sun shrinking and getting hotter; everything bilious, oxygenless, not great for living.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
• Her women’s expressions are sardonic, humorous, perplexed, or even slightly bilious, and all of them are versions of herself.
  — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2024
• The freedom inside the bilious green room, while naughty, funny, and subversive, also included the darker liberties.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2021
• The piece ran under an illustration of a black spatula dripping sinister goblets of melting plastic, against a background of bilious green.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
• Via social media and email, bilious readers shared stats and articles that purported to show minority groups commit more mass shootings than white people.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
• In the video, which can be seen on YouTube, two men engage in banter that is by turns friendly, argumentative, and literally bilious.
  — Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2017
• Tropical Storm Kate is still spinning in the mid Atlantic but its organization is looking bilious.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Aug. 2021
• Those who only know Simon Heffer from his somewhat bilious writings in the Daily Mail might be tempted to ignore his book on this period.
  — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
• The role of the cranky academic could easily be a stock character, but Giamatti invests the role with bilious wit as well as a few fleeting glimpses of vulnerability.
  — Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Nevertheless, Strickland builds his own worlds with such a distinctive style — down to the fonts, the bilious shades of green and the textures of the silks — that the viewer can’t help feeling pulled into his crazy maelstrom of quirk.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2022
• Beneath the bilious loner is a nostalgic relic of Old Hollywood, a caustically witty observer and, on some level, a real human being.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Dec. 2021
• Schwarzman, who was previously unknown outside his industry and New York society circles, quickly achieved a bilious reputation.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 13 Feb. 2017
• That continues when the matriarch finally passes away 20 years later, leaving equally bilious offspring Laras (Dinda Kanyadewi) in charge.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
• Everyone within her radius bears the germophobe’s wrath, with the only one who can occasionally pierce through her bilious anger being her upbeat hair-stylist sister Chantal (Michelle Austin), a mother of two vibrant daughters.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2025
• Camp Century exemplifies human ingenuity and engineering prowess as exploration continues, highlighting such bilious undertakings with foreseen and long-lasting consequences.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Jan. 2025
• Minaj’s bilious flurry is possibly related to claims that she is owed between $100 to 200 million related to her stake in Tidal, the music streaming service launched and spearheaded by Jay-Z in 2015 and was sold to Jack Dorsey’s company Square for $297 million in 2021.
  — Andrew Flanagan, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025