How to Use gall in a Sentence
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The cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity, and the gumption.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2021
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Cory wipes the gall coming from the other end of the phone and makes a plan.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2021
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His reign was cut prematurely short by a bull that had the gall to fight back.
—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2021
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But in terms of pure gall, there was something different this time, David E. Sanger writes.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
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But for pure gall, there was something different this time.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
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But for pure gall, there was something different about the balloon.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
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But gall was in abundant supply in the risk-tolerant world of crypto.
—Ben McKenzie, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
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Above the books hangs a swath of raw linen adorned with oak galls — scabs shed from the trees Argote passes on routine walks in her neighborhood of Boyle Heights.
—Jennifer Piejko, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
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The case drew even more press, partly for the lawyers’ gall in coming back for another round against the behemoth of the U.S. government.
—Nate Berg, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2020
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Sun bears’ gall bladders are used in some Chinese folk medicine, and their paws are a high-end delicacy.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
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The sprouts formed by crown or leaf gall will be twisted, bulbous, or otherwise misshapen.
—oregonlive, 12 Mar. 2023
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With the excitement just hours old, Dylan Hernández has the brazen gall to decide McVay might not return as coach.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
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Jean-Louis Petit performed gall bladder surgery in Europe in 1743.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2022
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Sarver, according to reports, had the gall to bristle at the punishment.
—Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2022
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No cause was given, but Dow had been in hospice care and announced in May that he had been diagnosed with prostate and gall bladder cancer.
—Dallas News, 27 July 2022
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The big-ag boys, forever hating Chavez and Huerta for their gall, grew only richer and more entrenched.
—Mark Arax, New York Times, 1 June 2023
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Shannon is clearly piping mad that a leathery weasel has the gall to say this to him on national television.
—Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2023
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Eventually, the larvae become adult insects and tunnel out of the gall.
—Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2020
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The digestive system is made up of the digestive tract, liver, pancreas, and gall bladder.
—Jon Goodwin, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2022
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Insect and mite galls are common on trees and shrubs throughout the Chicago area and generally are nothing to be concerned about.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2023
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Leaf galls rarely cause serious harm because unaffected leaf tissue on the plant, and even on the same leaf, will continue to produce food for the plant.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2023
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The agency takes extreme precaution to slow the degradation of these fragile records, made of parchment and featuring iron gall ink.
—Sean Catangui, New York Times, 14 July 2023
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The staffers seem slightly intrigued by his lyrical punch lines, and by his gall, but no record deal immediately results.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2022
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The biologists also hunt for gall crabs that burrow into corals.
—Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Apr. 2021
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Samples of bile, gall bladders and kidneys also were taken to assess overall health.
—al, 21 July 2022
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In South Korea, farmers aren’t allowed to extract bile from living bears – but are allowed to kill farmed bears over 10 years old, and sell their gall bladders to be milked for bile, Garshelis said.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 3 June 2023
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To set up a promo stand in a state where your company was currently embroiled in litigation against that state took a certain kind of gall.
—Ben McKenzie, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
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Applying a control is not really necessary, as there will not be any lasting harm to your birch tree because of this gall.
—Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2021
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Perry had the gall to run radio ads in California urging companies to move to Texas—using the lack of a personal income tax as bait.
—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
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Dear Miss Manners: I’m often flummoxed by some people’s gall, but this situation, in my humble opinion, takes the cake.
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
- It galls me that such a small group of people can have so much power.
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This is the galling thing about the GOP’s entanglement with Trump.
—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
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Some of the things are galling, like building an extra day in for directors to do a director’s cut off of producer notes.
—Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
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Its failure to convict Trump understandably galls many of his opponents — left, right, and center.
—The Editors, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023
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Bouts could stretch to galling lengths, with little discernible action, before winding their way to unsatisfying, humdrum endings.
—Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
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The inflation of the past three years is especially galling for autoworkers, who agreed to give up automatic cost-of-living increases in 2008 when two of the Big Three filed for bankruptcy and had to be bailed out by the federal government.
—Bypaige Hagy, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
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Video calls slavery a ‘compromise’ Critics have been particularly galled by PragerU’s history lessons related to slavery.
—Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
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Particularly galling was the CDC’s taking the non-scientific advice of teachers’ unions while developing guidance on school reopening.
—The Editors, National Review, 22 June 2023
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Scrambling, mostly futilely, for publishers in other countries, he was also clearly galled by the commercially more successful writer’s unwillingness to leave his German publishers and readers.
—Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
- It galls me that such a small group of people can have so much power.
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This is the galling thing about the GOP’s entanglement with Trump.
—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
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Some of the things are galling, like building an extra day in for directors to do a director’s cut off of producer notes.
—Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
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Its failure to convict Trump understandably galls many of his opponents — left, right, and center.
—The Editors, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023
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Bouts could stretch to galling lengths, with little discernible action, before winding their way to unsatisfying, humdrum endings.
—Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
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The inflation of the past three years is especially galling for autoworkers, who agreed to give up automatic cost-of-living increases in 2008 when two of the Big Three filed for bankruptcy and had to be bailed out by the federal government.
—Bypaige Hagy, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
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Video calls slavery a ‘compromise’ Critics have been particularly galled by PragerU’s history lessons related to slavery.
—Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
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Particularly galling was the CDC’s taking the non-scientific advice of teachers’ unions while developing guidance on school reopening.
—The Editors, National Review, 22 June 2023
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Scrambling, mostly futilely, for publishers in other countries, he was also clearly galled by the commercially more successful writer’s unwillingness to leave his German publishers and readers.
—Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
- It galls me that such a small group of people can have so much power.
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This is the galling thing about the GOP’s entanglement with Trump.
—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
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Some of the things are galling, like building an extra day in for directors to do a director’s cut off of producer notes.
—Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
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Its failure to convict Trump understandably galls many of his opponents — left, right, and center.
—The Editors, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023
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Bouts could stretch to galling lengths, with little discernible action, before winding their way to unsatisfying, humdrum endings.
—Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
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The inflation of the past three years is especially galling for autoworkers, who agreed to give up automatic cost-of-living increases in 2008 when two of the Big Three filed for bankruptcy and had to be bailed out by the federal government.
—Bypaige Hagy, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
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Video calls slavery a ‘compromise’ Critics have been particularly galled by PragerU’s history lessons related to slavery.
—Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
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Particularly galling was the CDC’s taking the non-scientific advice of teachers’ unions while developing guidance on school reopening.
—The Editors, National Review, 22 June 2023
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Scrambling, mostly futilely, for publishers in other countries, he was also clearly galled by the commercially more successful writer’s unwillingness to leave his German publishers and readers.
—Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
- It galls me that such a small group of people can have so much power.
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This is the galling thing about the GOP’s entanglement with Trump.
—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
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Some of the things are galling, like building an extra day in for directors to do a director’s cut off of producer notes.
—Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
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