How to Use gall in a Sentence

gall

1 of 2 noun

• The gall to say that I'm washed?
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
• The gall turns brown after the adult wasp emerges.
  — Pamm Cooper, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
• Yes had the good sense and the gall to ask him to come back and produce their new record.
  — Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 9 May 2026
• Feeding mites produce the fluffy gall that cannot be rubbed off the plants.
  — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 May 2026
• Cory wipes the gall coming from the other end of the phone and makes a plan.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2021
• Larvae emerge inside the galls and eat from the plant in winter.
  — Teresa Woodard, Midwest Living, 21 Apr. 2026
• His reign was cut prematurely short by a bull that had the gall to fight back.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2021
• Cutting open the gall when green will reveal the wasp larva in the center.
  — Pamm Cooper, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
• But for pure gall, there was something different about the balloon.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
• The cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity, and the gumption.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2021
• Then there are parasitic wasps, which lay their eggs in the galls and go on to devour the entire oak gall wasp.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
• But gall was in abundant supply in the risk-tolerant world of crypto.
  — Ben McKenzie, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
• The sprouts formed by crown or leaf gall will be twisted, bulbous, or otherwise misshapen.
  — oregonlive, 12 Mar. 2023
• Possible diseases include powdery mildew, blight, crown rot, leaf gall, root rot, leaf spot, and rust.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 12 Mar. 2026
• In turn, feeding by the mite results in slight enlargements of the fruiting structure, called galls.
  — Cori Sears, The Spruce, 14 May 2026
• Sun bears’ gall bladders are used in some Chinese folk medicine, and their paws are a high-end delicacy.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• The biologists also hunt for gall crabs that burrow into corals.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• Samples of bile, gall bladders and kidneys also were taken to assess overall health.
  — al, 21 July 2022
• Shannon is clearly piping mad that a leathery weasel has the gall to say this to him on national television.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2023
• Eventually, the larvae become adult insects and tunnel out of the gall.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2020
• Second, a supporters group blessed to be cheering for Leo Messi shows a bit of gall, frankly, to want more.
  — Greg Cote may 18, Miami Herald, 18 May 2026
• Sarver, according to reports, had the gall to bristle at the punishment.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2022
• The staffers seem slightly intrigued by his lyrical punch lines, and by his gall, but no record deal immediately results.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2022
• Applying a control is not really necessary, as there will not be any lasting harm to your birch tree because of this gall.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2021
• The digestive system is made up of the digestive tract, liver, pancreas, and gall bladder.
  — Jon Goodwin, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2022
• Sprays aren't generally effective because the mites are protected and hidden in leaf folds or galls.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2025
• To set up a promo stand in a state where your company was currently embroiled in litigation against that state took a certain kind of gall.
  — Ben McKenzie, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
• Worse yet, the black olive tree caterpillar also feeds on these galls caused by the mites, accelerating staining through its droppings.
  — Cori Sears, The Spruce, 14 May 2026
• The big-ag boys, forever hating Chavez and Huerta for their gall, grew only richer and more entrenched.
  — Mark Arax, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• The documents that Dooley was now handling were barely yellowed, their edges lightly frayed, the oak gall ink ranging from brown to black.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026

gall

2 of 2 verb

• It galls me that such a small group of people can have so much power.
• But then Rivers, operating on pure wits and gall all game, tried to go back to the well.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 23 Dec. 2025
• Since then, the Delta Devils have lost a galling 190 such games in a row.
  — Sam Blum, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
• The thought of mailing in what has become a lost season was equally as galling for Green.
  — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
• Several of its omissions are galling indeed.
  — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
• Her words so galled many on the left, each column became a source of knee-jerk opposition online.
  — Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
• This fiction will be galling to some people, but deeply reassuring to others.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024
• But the problems at Arizona galled many people there because the school appeared to be booming.
  — Jack Healy, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• Such statistics gall the people of the Niger Delta, who expected to see a greater share of the oil wealth.
  — Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
• That's more than a bit galling in a monitor that costs two to four times as much as flat 2D displays with similar specs.
  — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2025
• Some of the things are galling, like building an extra day in for directors to do a director’s cut off of producer notes.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
• There’s no getting around paying taxes, but there’s something galling about paying for the privilege.
  — Brian Sloan,dan Avery, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2026
• Losing four in a row after clinching a thrilling series opener at Hyderabad was galling.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• For some players, the move is especially galling for the release of the game's first new ship since late 2018.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2024
• The timing of the announcement was particularly galling for some.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2025
• And particularly galling to Modi was the reason for the honor.
  — Jamie McIntyre, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
• The activists, rightly galled by the snuffing out of unborn life, think the politicians overestimate the risks of standing with the unborn.
  — The Editors, National Review, 24 June 2025
• Its failure to convict Trump understandably galls many of his opponents — left, right, and center.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023
• What especially galls Marion is having eight touchdowns called back this season.
  — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2025
• The surging numbers are especially galling in a country that appeared within reach of wiping out syphilis around the turn of the millennium.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Nikki is the classic out-of-towner who comes to a new precinct, mildly galled by how much influence the rich exert over the Nantucket police.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
• Bouts could stretch to galling lengths, with little discernible action, before winding their way to unsatisfying, humdrum endings.
  — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
• The banal tropes of Shlesinger’s writing are rendered even more so in this abstract framing; they are not elevated, but instead put in stark, galling relief.
  — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The fact that criminals would seek to take advantage of an old man’s lack of sophistication about the workings of the internet galled Tejasvi.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
• The fact that could be confirmed in El Clasico only underlines how galling this season has been for the side from the Spanish capital.
  — Colin Millar, New York Times, 3 May 2026
• There was a time when Karen Weekly, sandpaper-tough former litigator, would’ve been galled by gyrations for social media’s sake.
  — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 22 May 2025
• What’s particularly galling is that many who reap Wall Street trading largesse are quick to point the finger at others over unethical behavior.
  — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
• What galls them is Toberoff’s tooth-and-nail negotiations and his insistence on becoming a producer himself, complete with credit and fees.
  — Tom Dotan, Vanity Fair, 23 Feb. 2026
• Look for better ideas Last week’s assassination attempt is only the latest manifestation of our country’s galling record on gun violence.
  — Pamela Paul, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024
• Bundle is also galled by Lady Coote’s refusal to mention at the inquest that the fatal sleeping draft was from a bottle she’d given to her sleepless maid, Emily.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026