How to Use bladder in a Sentence

bladder

noun
  • The tumor blocked my ureter, the tube that connects the kidney to the bladder.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 June 2025
  • Next, fill the bladder with warm water and a mild dish soap.
    — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2019
  • The prostate is located at the base of the bladder and is shaped like a doughnut.
    — Dr. Jared G. Heiner, idahostatesman, 6 May 2018
  • The bladder fits snugly in the bottom of the frame bag near the bottom bracket.
    — James Lynch, Outside Online, 24 Aug. 2022
  • That's because the G spot is near the urethra and bladder.
    — Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 29 Dec. 2024
  • The man was as big as a Clydesdale but had somehow been born with the bladder of a mouse.
    — Larry Millett, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The bladder and the brain The bladder has two main jobs: to safely store urine and to empty it out.
    — Jennifer Ahn, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2023
  • For most of them, the fight for equal service has moved from the lunch counter to the rest room—from the esophagus to the bladder.
    — Burt Solomon, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The cause was bladder cancer, said his wife, Judy Geller.
    — Bart Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2020
  • These would take bites out of my bladder, which would then be sent to a lab and biopsied.
    — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
  • These stones can become lodged in the ureter, the tube connecting the kidney to the bladder.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 3 June 2024
  • No, not the Capri Sun-like Franzia wine that comes in a plastic bladder inside a box.
    — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
  • For tennis, mid-cut heights were the norm, which wouldn’t fit the bladder design.
    — Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • On the flip side, senior dogs cannot hold their bladder as long as younger dogs.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 24 July 2022
  • The cancer spread to her colon, bowel and bladder, too.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The bladder accounts for about 0.8 to 1 millimeter of that.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Gently poke around to find the bladder, or piss sack, as it may be called at your deep camp, too.
    — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Stage 4 is when the stone passes from the bladder into the urethra, the tube through which urine exits the body.
    — Jay N. Yepuri, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Last month, Martinez woke up on the couch in severe pain from a swollen bladder.
    — Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The bacteria can also infect the nerves of the eyes, as well as the ones that control the legs and bladder.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Your urethra is that tube that runs from your bladder to where pee comes out of your body.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The pelvic floor muscles, which support your bladder, bowel, and uterus, are at the bottom of the core.
    — Anne Harding, Health, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Don’t be afraid to try one of those backpacks with a water bladder.
    — Washington Post, 23 June 2021
  • These muscles support the bladder and bowel, as well as the uterus.
    — Kristina Behr, Parents, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The two laughed when Toppin told Teske that her bladder was full and had pushed the uterus away from its usual spot.
    — Sadia Rafiquddin, STAT, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The cause of death was bladder cancer, said his wife Rhoda.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Aug. 2021
  • That squeezes the water out of the bag, through the filter and into the Wacool water bladder.
    — Matt Haines, CNN Underscored, 9 July 2020
  • When the bladders are inflated, the wearer will float face up.
    — Ben Romans, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
  • In both mouse and human tumor models of melanoma, breast, prostate, colon, and bladder cancers, SSRI treatment shrank tumors by over 50 precent.
    — Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2025
  • The disorder affects roughly 0.2 percent of people in their seventies and causes gait issues, bladder control issues, and cognitive difficulties.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 May 2025

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