Example Sentences

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The bears roar and the men thunder back, flapping uvulas and arms to chase off the animals.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2015

From such trifles as uvulas and tonsils they went on to ovaries and appendices until at last no one's inside was safe.

From Heartbreak House by Shaw, Bernard

Tonsils, vermiform appendices, uvulas, even ovaries are sacrificed because it is the fashion to get them cut out, and because the operations are highly profitable.

From The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors by Shaw, Bernard

There is no reason why I should continue: This image of the essential bin is better Than the irritated uvulas of modern poets.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton

The father used to snip off the ends of people's uvulas for fifty guineas, and paint throats with caustic every day for a year at two guineas a time.

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Shaw, Bernard