Sentence examples for was bilge from inspiring English sources

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was bilge

verb

To spring a leak in the bilge.

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The idea probably should have been baked in the oven a bit longer as when it appeared there were all these letters saying it was bilge and the Guardian, being the Guardian, printed them.

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That's bilge -- what's the use of freedom to a corpse?" His 1948 essay, "The Novel and Our Time" (Alan Swallow), advanced the theory that writers use their art as a means of liberation.

But Medem insists that he jettisoned Aitz not because it was pure bilge, but because it was pure bile.

Although there was a bilge pump onboard, it was not powerful enough to save the boat from capsizing, Mr. Lynch, 70, said.

In collections from Rag & Bone to Giorgio Armani, there was a bilge of chore jackets and other plain styles based on workwear.

The weekend's signature arthouse new release was Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys, which picked up a decent £14,523 from five screens.

British authorities stubbornly refused to listen to their own home-grown visionaries, and in 1956, the then Astronomer Royal, Richard van der Riet Woolley, told Time magazine that talk of space travel was "utter bilge".

When Clegg told his party they were now "the radical middle, governing from the middle for the middle", in the same breath as claiming the heritage of Mill, Lloyd George, Keynes and Beveridge, it was plain bilge.

It is gibberish, bilge, rubbish, crap, stupid, and any other polite way of saying "utter bollocks" that you can think of.

"I think he's talking bilge.

It is utter bilge and dangerous falsehood to believe that there is some kind of mystical strength in diversity".

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