How to Use orifice in a Sentence

orifice

noun
Definition of orificenext
Synonyms for orificenext
  • The moist orifice of a wound opened up and took the form of a small bullet hole.
    — Brendan Borrell, The Atlantic, 3 July 2020
  • Use the red straw extension again to blast clean the orifices in the float bowl’s screw.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The beads puddle and pool over the grains of warmed concrete while the secrets flee a widened orificein the face.
    — David Roderick, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2018
  • Near the bottom of the fleshy mass, a large, pink orifice emerges from tufts of fuzzy hair with pins jutting out around it.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2017
  • The heat exchanger and the orifice, which controls the flow of gas, may also need cleaning.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The mouth is never a mere orifice, but the seat of an individual’s voice.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Both sexes have cloacas, the anal orifice, an all-purpose vent.
    — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 27 July 2021
  • In another version of the story, Athena just walked out of Zeus’ head through some orifice or other.
    — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The freedom of the one existed at the price of the oppression of everyone else, of their reduction, in fact, to mere orifices.
    — Mitchell Abidor, The New York Review of Books, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Felching To felch is to suck up semen out of an orifice (using a straw is optional).
    — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 15 May 2018
  • Unlike the hemipenes of males, the researchers found, the hemiclitores remain inside the body and can be found behind the single orifice, or cloaca, along the tail.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023
  • There shall be a natural force causing the water to flow to the surface through a natural orifice.
    — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Germar points out that its rounded corners means it can even be stowed in a bodily orifice.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2014
  • This is the kind of movie where, at any moment, the editor might throw in an insert shot of an oozing orifice, keeping viewers on their toes.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Trails meander around three lakes and along a creek to Running Eagle Falls, which gushes through a giant stone orifice.
    — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
  • Hardcore, objects-stuck-in-a-woman's-every-orifice porn.
    — David Gambacorta, Esquire, 16 Aug. 2016
  • McCarthy points to one drawing from 1658 that shows a giant sea monster with two orifices on its head spewing water.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
  • But then weeping pustules appeared all over its body, and fluids poured forth from every orifice.
    — John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The mouth was cone-shaped with curved, hooked spines around the entire orifice leading the study authors to believe that C. falcatus fed by sifting through sediment in the ocean.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2019
  • Amid the swirls and eddies are suggestions of bodily orifices.
    — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 30 May 2018
  • When angered or preparing to envelop a victim, the beast flaps its many orifices.
    — Hank Stuever, Houston Chronicle, 6 July 2019
  • The final shot shows Caleb screaming as flies crawl over his face, presumably seeking an orifice through which to enter the body and assume control.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 June 2022
  • Gases that build up after death can be expelled through any orifice in the body, including the mouth, and may carry infectious virus, the researchers said.
    — Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Ebola kills about half its victims, often through horrific bleeding from all the body’s orifices.
    — New York Times, 11 May 2018
  • The power outlet was similar to the cigarette lighter orifice.
    — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 8 July 2017
  • After visiting this beach’s miles of soft, white sand, you’re guaranteed to have granules in every orifice.
    — Patrick Clair, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Bleed Paths: Small orifices (006) with one-way check valves allow fluid to bypass the compression spool valve during rebound and vice versa.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Trees, of course, wouldn’t fare too well near Old Faithful’s orifice if the geyser was regularly showering 200-plus-degree water into the air and onto the ground.
    — Mike Koshmrl, chicagotribune.com, 26 Oct. 2020
  • These have been modified in a way that makes them look like the pedipalps of male spiders, which are used to transfer sperm to a female’s genital orifice during mating.
    — The Economist, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Knives and carcasses and dark orifices exist in otherworldly spaces.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023

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