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

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

“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

A stagnant bilge along the lower bulkhead filled with wet papers and trash.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy