Example Sentences

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Bladders empty too often, bowels not often enough, and toxic proteins build up in the brain to form the plaque and the spaghetti-like tangles that are associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019

I sometimes rely on humor to disarm the threat, telling people my next band will be called the Bad Bladders.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2015

Others ended in several Bladders which were filled either with Wind or Froth.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

If the Skin be ulcerated, and little Bladders or Pustules arise, an Ointment may be compounded with the second Bark of Elder boil'd in Oil of Olives.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

To little Puddings or Bladders of Colours we owe all the choice Originals of the Greatest Painters: And indeed, what is Painting, but a well-spread Pudding, or Cookery of Colours.

From A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) by Macey, Samuel L.