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Example sentences for: bouts

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Grizzleslope during the 1980s had several painful bouts of toenail fungus, she insisted that this had not affected her powers of recollection.
Her novels argue that criminals must pay for their actions--no forgiveness, no rehabilitation, no excuses whatsoever--but she's also admitted to bouts with childhood molestation, bulimia, and bipolar mood swings, and she has asked that people who suffer such traumas be given a little TLC.
He says that "[e]ven the soliloquies come off as an extrovert's meditations--as bouts of self-loathing, such as Leonard Bernstein might have had after a bad concert."
In the course of researching and writing this article I suffered crippling bouts of gas and added 6 pounds of blubber around my middle.
The bouts commence in the morning, but the real crowds start arriving only in late afternoon.