enema
Example Sentences
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Coffee enemas in particular have caused severe inflammation of the rectum and colon and even death.
From Seattle Times
The liquid nutritional supplement “would have acted just like an enema, and it would been expelled.”
From New York Times
Called fleets because they were fleeting, the word is also a brand name for an enema — something many people pointed out on Twitter when the feature launched.
From Seattle Times
They showed that when some mice or pigs are dangerously deprived of air, an enema of oxygen-carrying liquid can rescue them.
From New York Times
Her condition does lead her biographer to give us a sentence for the ages: “Between four enemas, she wrote a sonnet.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
