How to Use bellows in a Sentence

bellows

noun

• My guts have been emptied like bellows for the best sound.
  — Valzhyna Mort, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
• The din of battle drowned out the bellows of frightened livestock.
  — Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
• Sometimes the only way to feed enough O2 into the coal bed is with a bellows.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2020
• Stop by to see the town smithy pump the mighty bellows, making utensils used by the local townsfolk.
  — Melanie Savage, courant.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• To apply powder in the holes, use a device with a small bellows and wand, such as the bellow hand duster ($14.98 from domyown.com).
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
• Crunched the wafer-ice on the pot-holes, Somebody wistfully twisted the bellows wheel.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Dec. 2020
• Fireplace bellows are measured by their length and width.
  — Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• My breath was roaring now, in and out, my lungs enormous bellows that would not tolerate my death.
  — Ann Patchett, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• What about the way that the sound of the bellows in the blacksmithing scene resembles the noises the locomotives make in the underground railroad?
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 25 June 2021
• The shirt contains air pouches on the torso that pump an accordion-like bellows under the arm.
  — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2022
• This verdict will not silence the bellows of pain from communities of color across the globe.
  — Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
• High winds acted as bellows, causing the fires to spread through the unusually dry trees and grass with shocking speed.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2022
• Capano compares the motion to a bellows drawing air in through its nozzle.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2022
• The reptiles essentially use the far end of their lungs as a bellows to pull in air whenever the ribs closer to the head are obstructed.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2022
• Has a bellows-like pharynx that enables it to vacuum its prey into its mouth.
  — Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 29 July 2022
• Some of the mystique is predicated on visions of suffering—the hot, rowdy back of the house, the bellows of hell from which beautiful plates emerge.
  — Lydia Kiesling, Bon Appétit, 17 Sep. 2021
• Like blacksmiths working bellows, the dinosaurs flexed their jaws to force air in and out of the chambers, causing moisture to evaporate and wick away heat, like sweat on a summer day.
  — National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2020
• At the mouth of the shaft, workers loaded the ore onto donkeys or their own backs and bore it to the charcoal-burning furnaces, knee-high clay urns attached to bellows that sent up plumes of smoke from the center of the mining complex.
  — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2021
• Now the seaside dunes of northern Indiana, at the edge of the great glacial lakes, breathe fire from iron bellows, and the future of all elephants on Earth is threatened by the same processes that transformed this world in a matter of centuries.
  — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
• Other portions of the organ, such as the sideboard, a few bellows and multiple pipes, are too delicate or difficult to remove and will be cleaned at the cathedral, per the Art Newspaper.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2020
• The thundering surf is somehow drowned out by the bellows of males of all species, who patrol their territory with constant barks and shouts, confronting others with body-slamming duels and more shouting.
  — Jared Vincenti, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2022
• Also utilized in the escape was a concertina, an accordion-like instrument whose bellows was used to inflate their flotation gear.
  — al, 24 June 2020
• For example, vocalizations of birds or deep-throated bellows of bullfrogs can tell researchers what was nearby.
  — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022
• Using bellows, steelworkers increased the temperatures of their coal fires to nearly three thousand degrees—hot enough to melt iron in large quantities.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2021
• The labor of these dogs, whose hours are as exactly regulated as those of their human fellow laborers, consists in furnishing motive power to the bellows, which fan the furnaces of the atéliers.
  — Dan Schlenoff, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2021
• Two events, catastrophic and hopeful, the twin axes between which the country expanded and contracted at the behest of its voracious neighbors, like the bellows of an accordion.
  — Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2021
• Within seconds, a chorus of cetacean song filled the air—humpbacks emanating a series of elevated chirps and bellows and downward-spiraling moans.
  — Dyllan Furness, Outside Online, 20 Aug. 2020
• The Federal Reserve’s zero-interest-rate policy has pumped those hot-air bellows ever since.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 15 May 2022
• In another section, a mixed martial arts fighter with superhero arms bellows in victory.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2021
• Such exigencies exacerbated the slog that defines thru-hiking, where miles seem to expand and contract like accordion bellows.
  — Outside Online, 2 July 2020

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024