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

The ship is built in sections, then joined together on the slipway, supported by keel blocks, bilge blocks, wedges and "shores" - heavy lengths of timber.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2024

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

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

The rabbits had been frightened by what had happened to Acorn and to the doe, and remained squatting miserably, half in and half out of the bilge.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams