bilge
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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
Fadich worked the bilge pumps till he was “blue in the face” just to keep the vessel above water.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Before long, water filled the base of the boat, the bilge pump grinding in a constant whir as it tried to keep up.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023
Emily Bell of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism worried that readers might be deluged with "bilge".
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2022
What a lot of bilge I could think up at night.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
She urged measures such as requiring fishers and riverboat operators to bleach boat hulls, bilges, and wells after passing through an affected area.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 20, 2021
We mapped the bilges out in the fall, came back and looked at them in spring, and there was nothing there.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2017
But it actually is a Spanish expression, “of where the sea goes”; while the Spanish never settled this area, they would empty their bilges so the ocean would wash away their effluence.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2016
Since hitchhiking to the Great Lakes in the bilges of ocean-going ships, they have expanded virtually unchecked and are considered a major threat to waterways including Lake Erie.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 29, 2015
With each dip and plunge of the boat, Worsley swooped the pot up in the air lest their precious hoosh go slopping into the bilges.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Many of them bilged, or failed to graduate!
From Time Magazine Archive
In crossing the harbour, the Intrepido, from want of precaution in taking soundings, grounded on a bank in the channel, where, bilged by the surf, she finally became a wreck.
From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 by Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald
Captain Stokes found the vessel lying on the rocks, bilged, and an utter wreck.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy
The order was promptly executed, but unhappily without producing the desired result, for in a few moments the ship bilged, and the destruction of the whole crew appeared to be inevitable.
From Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 by William O. S. Gilly
Our boat, very probably, had gone half her length on top of the edge of it, and was then washed off again after she had bilged; and the strong current had set us clear.
From Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 by Louis Becke
She was bilging fast, with an ominous list to larboard, and it could be no more than a question of moments before she settled down.
From Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
"And that perhaps you've saved us from bilging?" added Midshipman Hayes.
From Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
The ship continued to beat on the rocks, and soon bilging, fell with her broadside towards the shore.
The Trial sloop was a great way to leeward, having lost her mainmast in this squall, and having been obliged, for fear of bilging, to cut away the wreck.
From Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced by H. W. Household
The Tryal was a great way to leeward, having lost her main-mast in the squall, and having been obliged to cut away the wreck, for fear of bilging.
Vocabulary lists containing bilge
Words Every Pirate Should Know
Looking to grow your vocabulary? Check out this interactive, curated word list from our team of English language specialists at Vocabulary.com – one of over 17,000 lists we've built to help learners worldwide!
"The Fish," Vocabulary from the poem
Interested in learning more words like this one? Our team at Vocabulary.com has got you covered! You can review flashcards, quiz yourself, practice spelling, and more – and it's all completely free to use!
