How to Use gill in a Sentence

gill

noun

• 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
• The researchers think the mystery lies in the sharks’ gills.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 11 May 2023
• As Mal looked on, the two men, drunk to the gills, were horsing around.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
• Next, the gills and guts are cut away and the blood drained to preserve freshness and flavor.
  — Tom Fowlks, Outdoor Life, 1 Feb. 2024
• Instead, freezers across the United States are filled to the gills.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024
• Stay Here: San Sebastián is packed to the gills with smart city hotels.
  — Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Sharks and rays are taken for their meat, fins, gill plates and liver oil.
  — Catrin Einhorn, Star Tribune, 28 Jan. 2021
• Jack Frost, who was surfing alone that day, thwarted the attack by punching the shark in the head and gills.
  — Outdoor Life, 2 Aug. 2023
• Some had big bumps on their back; others had pus behind their gills.
  — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
• Ask the fishmonger to scale and gut the fish, and to remove the gills, which can impart a bitter flavor.
  — Domenica Marchetti, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Diligence and patience can turn up a monster ‘gill of 10 to 12 inches.
  — David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 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
• The meals were exquisite, varied, and extensive, with enough food to leave me feeling stuffed to the gills each night.
  — Owen Clarke, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2023
• Then, use your other hand to support the fish under the head and gills, avoiding the pectoral-fin spines as described above.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 24 May 2023
• Frogs and toads go from being tadpoles who only have gills to growing lungs.
  — Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 10 May 2024
• For this reason, scientists have even likened the homespun structure to a gill.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2021
• The tail’s gill-like structures allow the turtle to stay submerged for up to two and a half days without surfacing.
  — Patricia Edmonds, National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2020
• The paper said the fish are exposed to the drugs both through passing water over their gills, and by eating prey, such as shrimp and crabs, that have been exposed.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
• Pumpkinseed have bright blue, spider web-like markings on their faces and gill plates.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• 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
• During its off hours, the bug contentedly feed, relaxes and bumps uglies with the gill-dwelling males.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2020
• On the underside of its cap are white gills and spores.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
• The mushroom is usually a few inches tall but can grow larger and has white gills, a pale yellow or green cap and a ring around its stalk.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 10 Jan. 2026
• The feathery-looking gills also molt and remain attached inside near the legs.
  — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 7 Jan. 2026
• Them gills is sharp as razors, too.
  — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• Clear eyes, bright gills, and a clean scent usually signal freshness, while cloudy eyes or a foul odor are seen as warnings.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Dec. 2025
• The wound looked like a gill on a fish, a slim keyhole weeping bright capillary blood.
  — Daniyal Mueenuddin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025