bilge

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Recent Examples of bilge California State Parks officials have begun additional exit inspections of boats at O’Neill Forebay, San Luis Reservoir and Los Banos Creek Reservoir to ensure all water is drained from livewells, bilges and outboard motors to prevent the spread of the mussels. Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024 The mussels easily make their way into live wells, bilges and ballast tanks, watercraft’s engine systems, plumbing and other compartments onboard boats. Sacbee.com, 27 Mar. 2025 There will be another 15 minutes of football played — a third of a half of football — but those leaving have no desire to watch anymore of what could fairly be described as apathetic bilge. Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 16 Feb. 2025 An enchanting ballet performance A ballerina was filmed performing a dance on the edge of a cruise ship’s bilge, mere inches from Antarctica’s icy waters. Alexandra Banner, CNN, 3 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bilge
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bilge
Noun
  • Faced with a phrase that has no inherent meaning, the AI Overview still makes a good-faith effort to answer the user's request and draw some plausible explanation out of troll-worthy nonsense.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
  • None of this ‘support the teams from your country in Europe’ nonsense.
    Andy Mitten, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Unlike a regular old garbage bag, these are leakproof and durable (and thus much harder for a squirrel to rip into, if given the chance).
    Sara Coughlin, SELF, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Four 20-pound bags of hamburger buns and sandwich breads got hit with Stop Sales, sending 80 pounds of bread into the garbage.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Use it to find and retrieve stray nuts or bolts in any crevice.
    Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Without that pollination, almond trees produce only 200 pounds of nuts per acre.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Among the debris were bricks, tins of paint, stones, and other assorted rubbish.
    Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The effort has so far transformed more than 10 tons of flowers from would-be rubbish into fragrant souvenirs.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The stupidity of enacting a massive tax increase on the entire global economy at this point doesn’t make much sense.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Trump himself personifies stupidity’s essential feature — self-satisfaction, an inability to recognize the flaws in your thinking.
    David Brooks, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Depp pushes over a cabinet with dishes, rips open her dress and makes a most unholy noise as her eyeballs go up in their sockets, tongue juts out and globs of drool pour from her mouth.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Wipe the drool off your tank top, put some pants on, and get out your mama’s basement!
    Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The cramped cells are equipped with tiered metal bunks without mattresses, two basins for washing, and two open toilets.
    Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Overnight guests bunk in the house’s dedicated guest suite, which features a private entrance.
    Kristine Hansen, Architectural Digest, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The war settled into a brutal battle of attrition with limited movement along a frontline stretching for 600 miles through muck of eastern Ukraine.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The Clippers’ success lately isn’t just stemming from them making games ugly with their defense and slogging through the muck.
    Zach Harper, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025

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“Bilge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bilge. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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