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

Cluny was a bilge rat; the biggest, most savage rodent that ever jumped from ship to shore.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques