bowels
IPA: bˈaʊʌɫz
noun
- The deepest or innermost part.
- The concept or quality that defines something at its very core.
- The intestines.
- Compassion, sympathy.
- (obsolete) The body as the source of offspring.
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Examples of "bowels" in Sentences
- Facing this, the very centre of the bowels is knotted.
- Salvadorean gangster prisoners hide cellphones in bowels
- Mrs Wilson has had an inflammation in her bowels, is recovered, and gaining strength.
- As you may know, Rocky's MOH has been in bowels of the bureaucracy since February, 2000.
- I fear will be no long liver; for I am told she has sometimes the gout in her bowels (I hate the word bowels).
- Fastened to the sides of the winding tunnels, the tubes gave new visual meaning to the phrase "bowels of the Earth."
- A few days before the term the bowels should be freely opened and kept open until the period for the discharge has arrived.
- Personally, I believe that the only possible way to prevent loose bowels is to take your nourishment intravenously, and that is far from safe!
- We English even, fastidious as we are, employ the term bowels as a natural symbolization for the affections of pity, mercy, or parental and brotherly affection.
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