bilge
Example Sentences
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If you have ever sat at a restaurant, marveling at the bilge offered on the kids’ menu and wondering how on earth we got here, “Picky” has the answers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
“Officers and surgeons roamed the decks, sniffing out potential culprits: foul bilge, moldy sails, rancid meat, human sweat, rotten timber, dead rats, piss and excrement, unwashed livestock, dirty breath,” Grann writes.
From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2023
“I’m just thrown away here — a nobody,” the sailor who was assigned to clean the bilge said in an interview.
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2022
Emily Bell of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism worried that readers might be deluged with "bilge".
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2022
“And I don’t want to hear another word about this dream from either one of you. I’ve got a man on my staff to listen to disgusting bilge like this.”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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