How to Use the bowels in a Sentence

the bowels

plural noun

• This year, Aronson was rigged up to arrive on the stage from the bowels of the theater.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Apr. 2023
• In the eighth round, Plant and his entourage stroll out of the bowels of the arena to take in a little of the action.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 26 Mar. 2023
• He was born in the camp; his father, who had belonged to isis, vanished in the bowels of the prison system.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• What to expect: The haunt, which lasts about an hour or so, takes you through the bowels of the historic Mint building in SoMa.
  — Claire Reilly, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
• That same year, 18-year-old Habib Ullah made a secret passage to the U.S. by working in the bowels of a ship as a coal-stoker.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
• The vessels supplying blood to the intestines become narrowed through plaque buildup, and the bowels do not get the amount of oxygen needed.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2024
• From the bowels of a barn to a public exhibit: David Capodilupo took several years to restore the mannequin of his uncle.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
• Backstage, in the bowels of Pritzker Pavilion, musicians heard about fans jumping fences to get in.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2024
• Mickelson said arena security makes sure McCoy is able to quickly get down the stairs and through the crowd to get to the press room – and the restrooms – in the bowels of the arena.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
• Pelé didn’t score but had the crowd standing in appreciation and awe, and the press mob trooped down into the bowels of the stadium not having any idea what to do.
  — Nick Bertram For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 29 Dec. 2022
• The term came out of the bowels of 4chan in the mid-aughts and typically means maniacally laughing at a victim.
  — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2024
• And when the episode closes, Navarro has followed the ghost of her dead sister through the metallic maze of catwalks and ladders and into the bowels of the decaying machine.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2024
• In the bowels of State Farm Stadium after his postgame press conference, Salter reflected on what the moment meant to him.
  — Logan Stanley, The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2024
• If the bowels contain seeds, corn, or other pieces of undigested food, the provider might recommend redoing the colonoscopy.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 25 Mar. 2024
• The Yelp executive limps off on his own, lurching into the bowels of Oracle Park in search of water.
  — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
• There’s a blank spot on the wall in the bowels of Coleman Coliseum where action shots of Alabama basketball players lead to the floor.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 16 Jan. 2023
• Ruben Ortiz Descending a staircase into the bowels of the building led me to a full-on wellness wonderland.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 18 June 2024
• In 2020, Elinor Lipman learned that her fizzy rom-com set in the bowels of the Trump administration would be coming out too late to be successful.
  — Washington Post, 13 July 2021
• Some cramping is possible as the bowels begin to empty.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
• The comedy comes mostly from the intricate world Rothwell depicts within the bowels of JFK.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2024
• Down in the bowels of the museum, in Wilco’s backstage suite, Jeff Tweedy, the band’s front man, was lying in an empty claw-footed bathtub, posing for photographs.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• But some people avoid the exam because of the hassle of getting time off work or the day-ahead preparation that involves drinking a strong laxative to empty the bowels.
  — Carla K. Johnson, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
• The 26-year-old paints his fingernails, uses the bowels of stadiums as fashion walkways and wears flashier tracksuits and shoes than his competitors.
  — Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 22 July 2024
• Stimulant laxatives increase the movement of the bowels to help with the passage of stool to relieve constipation.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 2 June 2023
• Men, women, newborns, put in the bowels of ships, shackled, made to row from Africa to America, then brought here and sold like chattel, separated from their children, beat, whipped, worked to death, raped.
  — Kaitlyn Huamani, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
• Shaun Aguano sat on a folding chair behind a card table in a cramped room in the bowels of Arizona Stadium, addressing the media as is customary after a game.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2022
• That comes after Facebook made the feature easier to find after essentially burying it in the bowels of the social media app for years.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2024
• Dust can aggravate the bowels and trigger autoimmune diseases, Blagev said.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
• Megan Rapinoe entered the postgame news conference in the bowels of Snapdragon Stadium on Saturday wearing a walking boot on her right leg and a pained smile on her face.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• The inmate Colón encountered deep in the bowels of a Manhattan prison seemed hungry for human connection after years of isolation in jail.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024