How to Use bodily in a Sentence

bodily

1 of 2 adjective

• The victim suffered serious bodily injury.
• The child was between 36 and 40 weeks old at the time of death, per the autopsy, and showed no signs of bodily trauma, per the outlet.
  — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 29 Sep. 2023
• The gold takes the form of a glowing liquid that pours from gashes in the tree, like the bodily fluid of a suffering Earth.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• This is the enzyme that can break down protein stains like eggs and milk, plus blood, urine and other bodily fluids.
  — goodhousekeeping.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• The babies didn’t survive, but Nicole still had blood and bodily fluids on her backside.
  — Paloma Chavez, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024
• Courtiers instead washed with alcohol rubs and used scents to mask bodily odors.
  — Thomas Adamson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
• The message in both shows is that there can be joy and freedom in bodily autonomy.
  — Mikayla Dawson, Women's Health, 23 June 2023
• But the school board says there’s no money and some parents don’t want to expose their sons to this natural bodily function.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
• The questions about medicine and bodily autonomy can get obscured by the tactics involved, the line of scrimmage moving up and down the field.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
• Amber Alerts are issued if a missing child is 17 years old or younger and in danger of serious bodily harm and death.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2024
• Regardless of the timeline, the death of old and damaged cells and their replacement with new cells is a normal and important bodily process.
  — Zoie Magri, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
• Jiang was charged with threats of bodily harm and carrying a dangerous weapon in a place of religious worship.
  — Chad Murray, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
• Ramsey agreed to plead no contest to assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury in exchange for dropping the hate crime charge against him.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 27 July 2023
• They were both acquitted of assault in the second degree with intent to cause bodily injury.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
• Online court records show Komoroski has been charged with one count of reckless homicide and three counts of felony DUI resulting in great bodily harm.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 12 May 2023
• Police confirm that neither child died from gunshot wounds or showed signs of bodily trauma.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
• But if the specter of injury and bodily impermanence hovers over the tournament, the older players’ defuse it with dark humor.
  — Andrew Keh Bryan Meltz, New York Times, 24 July 2023
• Charges of voluntary manslaughter and assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury were filed against the two teens who attacked Diego.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• This is the base effort needed to circulate enough blood to sustain normal bodily function.
  — Virginia Singla, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
• Hardie argued that the issue at hand was one of bodily autonomy, as did Rhodes-Conway and Martinez-Rutherford.
  — Nathaniel Rosenberg, Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2023
• The other new charges are two counts of making threats that could result in great bodily injury or death, also stemming from testimony at the hearing.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2023
• Komoroski is charged with one count of reckless homicide and three counts of felony DUI resulting in great bodily harm, according to online court records.
  — Maxime Tamsett, CNN, 12 May 2023
• The girl’s aunt Felicia Hargrave, 31, and the mother’s boyfriend Charles Turner, 56, are both charged with two counts of neglect of a dependent resulting in bodily injury.
  — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 1 May 2023
• Even for those of us relatively in charge of our own lives, Hazard worries whether some technologies are teaching us to hold our bodily functions too much at arm’s length.
  — Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
• Young was charged with a single count of child neglect causing great bodily harm, according to Miami-Dade County court records.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
• At the time of his death, Paul Murdaugh was facing charges including boating under the influence, causing great bodily harm, and causing death in connection to the boat crash.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
• Caro-Mena has since been charged in Miami-Dade with third-degree grand theft auto, fleeing police at high speed and leaving the scene of a crash with no serious bodily injury.
  — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
• The insula is a part of the brain specifically involved in conscious awareness of your emotions, pain and bodily sensations.
  — Arash Javanbakht, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• What that means, aside from the loss of some pretty important bodily tissues, is that waste produced while breaking down your own tissues begins to degrade your organs.
  — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 29 Nov. 2023
• Both are facing charges; Cooks was arrested on a charge of assault with serious bodily injury and booked into the Dallas County Jail.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2023

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bodily

2 of 2 adverb

• The house will have to be moved bodily to the new site.
• The blast lifted him bodily into the air.
• The old woman rose bodily from the ground and the men froze.
  — Saladin Ahmed, Slate Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
• Garcia, of Riverview High School, was charged with threats to kill or do bodily injury, a felony.
  — Tiffini Theisen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Normally served on the street, ya dong’s herbal powers are said to cure bodily ails.
  — Natalie B. Compton, GQ, 1 Aug. 2017
• The Cameroon players all went over to their bench, the non-scorer Nchout was in tears and at one point was pulled bodily back into the pitch by her teammates.
  — SI.com, 23 June 2019
• Sanda stared at the goop and bodily fluid pool growing around her foot.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 11 June 2019
• But as the year wore on, and our choices and bodily autonomy shrank, our feeling about the song changed.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 4 Jan. 2024
• But as the year wore on, and our choices and bodily autonomy shrank, our feelings about the song changed.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
• There are other bodily rhythms, indeed, that follow the same rule-less rule.
  — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2017
• Slapstick and bodily functions aside, one era’s side-splitter often leaves the next era stone-faced.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2023
• The caller told police a man in the home was threatening bodily harm while dumping cans of gasoline inside the home, Young said.
  — Janelle Walker, Elgin Courier-News, 6 Sep. 2017
• Explore what happens inside the brain during times of stress and how to self-regulate your brain and bodily states.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2023
• Avoid contact with blood and bodily fluids from people who are sick.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
• Monk and her company’s singing style could be described as bodily, the voice an extension of limbs and emotions.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 12 June 2019
• The virus can be spread via transfers of infected bodily fluid such as blood or semen.
  — Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2019
• In the physics of this show, Quixote is somehow bodily tethered, not just to his narrative but to the paper-and-board reality of the object that houses it.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 11 Oct. 2017
• There is, of course, power to be gained by a beautiful woman who is willing to transgress the boundaries of bodily modesty.
  — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
• We are bodily immersed in this show, and very, very far from the lonely, make-do experience of streaming theater.
  — New York Times, 2 June 2021
• Roughly the length of a finger, the insects fly together by the millions and are devouring crops and forcing people in some areas to bodily wade through them.
  — Elias Meseret, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2020
• Just as physical pain evolved to alert us to bodily danger, the mental anguish of loneliness alerts us to the danger of isolation.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Time, 6 June 2023
• Those who refused to move were bodily escorted out by police.
  — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 June 2021
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  — Arielle Egozi, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 July 2018
• The 18-year-old suspect pleaded guilty this month to one count of kidnapping-child enticement and one count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 25 Dec. 2023
• But the child has suffered bodily injury from the blood infections and radiation he'd been exposed to, the documents say.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 14 Oct. 2019
• But exceptions are made when grizzlies attack people or pose bodily risk—as was the case in the recent incident in Island Park.
  — Kris Millgate, Field & Stream, 6 Sep. 2023
• However, the search produced a torn belt, cell phone box, $5 bill, towel with bodily fluid on it and silver Kenneth Cole watch found by a resident.
  — The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2023
• Only bags used for blood and bodily fluid cleanup must be 1.5 millimeters thick; that requirement does not include all trash bags.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2017
• That’s interesting, because, in a way, the portal, in the first half of your novel, is something that the protagonist is bodily immersed in—is living a life inside of.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2022
• Apparently, bodily harm or death doesn’t apply if two patrol officers face bodily harm or death getting dragged by a car.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024

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