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How to use bod in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Bod means the body. Example: “Fred likes to keep his bod in shape.”

Examples of bod by meaning

nounThe body.

  • Fred likes to keep his bod in shape.
  • We are talking about a major bod here, and I don't care if half of it is plastic.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 129
  • 'Cause I gotta say that soldier getup looks real good on that bod of yours.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Chora's Den, Citadel

nounA person.

  • The security bods started watching as if their lives depended on it.2005, Richard Templar, The Rules of Management, page 73
  • People such as William James and the Stephensons (with whom he collaborated) may have been the movers and shakers of the early railways, but there was other, less exalted bods who constructed all the paraphernalia - including stations.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and Facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56

More sentences with bod

  • We can't figure out if we're more jel of her insane bod or luxurious lifestyle.2016 January 6, “Check out the bod that launched a bikini empire”, in Daily Star. From the entry jel
  • We were a family of odd bods and every summer we spent by the river.2016, Brigid Lowry, “My Inky Life: Thoughts about Writing Memoir”, in Still Life with Teapot: On Zen, Writing and Creativity, North…. From the entry morepork
  • People have even taken to saying that a dadbod is a hot bod.2015 May 14, Pete Casmore, “It’s not a dadbod – it’s an act of rock’n’roll dietary rebellion”, in The Guardian. From the entry dadbod
  • It's one of life's mysteries how odd bods always find each other.2000, Malin Lindroth, Night Watch, →ISBN, page 171. From the entry odd bod
  • They had landed without the odd bod.2015, Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins, →ISBN, page 292. From the entry odd bod
  • Bod could feel the Sleer listening to Jack's words, could feel a low susurrus of excitement building in the chamber.2008, Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book, →ISBN, page 262. From the entry susurrus
  • The bods who do it are grasses.2005, Noel Smith, Razor Smith, A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun. From the entry lolly up
  • Everyone seems to have an opinion on the dad bod, which, as far as I can ascertain, is any male body that doesn’t belong to Channing Tatum.2015 May 26, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian. From the entry dad bod

Meaning of bod

  1. noun The body.
  2. noun A person.

Full definition of bod

Questions about bod in a sentence

How do you use bod in a sentence?
Bod is used as a noun. For example: “Fred likes to keep his bod in shape.”
What is a short sentence with bod?
“The bods who do it are grasses.”
What does bod mean?
Bod means the body.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bod (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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