GALL in a Sentence

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23 example sentences for GALL, such as:

1. A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
2. Their hope was to push the galling foes away from the fence.
3. Sometimes, gall is so shameless it's turned into an art form.
4. It was especially galling to be criticised by this scoundrel.
5. Rhett's words and the children's reactions opened her eyes to a startling, a galling truth.

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 Meanings and Examples of GALL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gall
 v.  make sore by abrasion; damage surface friction; annoy
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Without sugar or cream it was bitter as gall, for the sorghum used for "long sweetening" did little to improve the taste.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  And on top of it all, he had the consummate gall to stand here in the road and insult her with his infamous proposals.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  I know I've got gall asking for Miss Suellen now when I haven't a cent but--well, it's this way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  Somehow the bright beauty had gone from the April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
5  Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
6  Then I feel I've swallowed gall, and it's eating my inside out, and nowhere's far enough away to get away.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
7  Ashamed that she was poor and reduced to galling shifts and penury and work that negroes should do.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
8  Rhett's words and the children's reactions opened her eyes to a startling, a galling truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
9  She remembered her helplessness and her panic at her helplessness and her hatred of the Yankees who had imposed this galling system upon the South.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
10  Mrs. Trenor's unconsciousness of the real stress of the situation had the effect of making it more galling to Lily.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
11  Their hope was to push the galling foes away from the fence.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
12  The chain that bound her here was of iron links, and galling to her inmost soul, but could never be broken.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
13  To most libraries, lectures, concerts, and museums, Negroes are either not admitted at all, or on terms peculiarly galling to the pride of the very classes who might otherwise be attracted.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
14  He was fully as uncomfortable as he looked; for there was a restraint about whole clothes and cleanliness that galled him.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  When he returned he had a small limb of a tree in his hand and he laid it mercilessly across the horse's galled back.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence:
1  A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
2  She had the gall to suggest that I might supply her with information about what Steve was doing.
3  A direct relation between body mass index and the risk of gall bladder disease has been described.
4  Sometimes, gall is so shameless it's turned into an art form.
5  It will gall her to have to wait outside; I guess she will leave there in five minutes.
6  It was especially galling to be criticised by this scoundrel.