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

It is oppressively dull work, but at least it isn’t the bilge.

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

Today’s censors argue that work by artists who spew antisemitic bilge or foolish covid-19 policies should disappear.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2022

Down in the bilge I lay, pulling my sea cloak over my head, while the rough gale blew the ships and rueful crews clear back to Aiolia.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer