Sample Sentences for
gall
(editor-reviewed)

gall as in:  had the gall to

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  • They were getting destroyed, they had hardly inflicted any casualties, and they had the gall to perform the victory ritual and end the game right under their noses.  (source)
  • The time she was removed from succession to the throne came back to Redd with the full force of its heart-stopping gall… The ever wise Queen Theodora announced that she could not allow such an unruly daughter to have queenly power.  (source)
    gall = impertinence or impudence (rudeness and boldness)
  • Their man gets killed and we have the gall to tell them to stay out.  (source)
    gall = boldness and rudeness
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  • Paco has the gall to pat me on the shoulder.  (source)
    gall = boldness and rudeness to say or do things that are not acceptable to others
  • A few people laugh nervously, but most turn their heads to see if Skeeter has had the gall to show up.  (source)
  • Then you have the gall to call yourself my mother?  (source)
    gall = boldness and rudeness to say things that are not acceptable to others
  • One of them said that he couldn't believe anyone had had the gall to try to sneak him into Alicante to begin with.  (source)
    gall = boldness and rudeness to say or do things that are not acceptable to others
  • Will laughed, which I thought took a great deal of gall.†  (source)
  • He felt the thought gall him, but could not deny the wisdom in what they did.†  (source)
  • Lord have mercy, ain't this the living gall!†  (source)
  • You have some gall calling me lazy for someone who lies in bed all day.†  (source)
  • Near its crown it bulged with the distinctive onion-shaped dome of its accumulator gall.†  (source)
  • They got their damn gall, taking us to jail.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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  • A few minutes later Makalu Gall appeared, having been dragged down the glacier on a piece of plastic by a half-dozen Sherpas.  (source)
    Gall = the name of a person in this book
  • Gall rose in Ari's throat, burning him, and with a roar, he smashed his bo down on the other Eraser's head.  (source)
    Gall = a name in this story
  • Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, your murdering ministers,  (source)
    gall = bile
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Gall of goat, and slips of yew  (source)
Gall = bile
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