expectorate
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Monday night’s miracle expectorate didn’t have any second spitter.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 2019
Yet these are the 2019 Nats, and they look at external expectations — and, well, expectorate on them.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2019
In the middle of a conversation, he will often expectorate noisily into a handy spittoon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eight months ago Florence was already reading, writing, and using such words as "expectorate."
From Time Magazine Archive
“Though, Lloyd, why you can’t spell expectorate when it’s spelled just like it sounds, I cannot fathom.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
That you married someone who expectorates brown, reeking spittle undermines your own case for just how disgusting you find this.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2014
This squeezes tubercular secretions out into the windpipe, like toothpaste out of a tube; and the patient expectorates.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is polite and refined, chews betel nut "to stimulate his meditative faculties," and expectorates on the floor with easy freedom.
From An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by George Ernest Morrison
The clinical symptoms follow those of the auscultation; as the patient expectorates less he is less feeble, coughs less, gains strength, and regains his spirits; but the tubercle remains untouched.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
The subject apparently languishes, but I know that it still occupies their sage meditations; and presently this is demonstrated by Hiram, who expectorates liberally by way of preface.
From The Fortune Hunter by Louis Joseph Vance
Others freely hissed, booed, cheered, stamped, applauded, threw things, ate, talked and expectorated their way through performances.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021
No one wanted to follow him after he expectorated barbs.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2016
In 1871, when the last Prussian troops marched out of Paris, crowds of bourgeois housewives expectorated lustily.
From Time Magazine Archive
The smells of raw horsepower, burned rubber and expectorated snuff are cooked by a wicked sun.
From Time Magazine Archive
The man called "Dutch," a lantern-jawed chap with red hair and a squint, expectorated a long stream of saliva on the floor before replying.
From By Right of Conquest A Novel by Arthur Hornblow
Which could mean the golden era of spitting, slobbering, gleaking, glanding, hawking, hocking, venoming and expectorating is about to dry up.
From Washington Times ● May 10, 2020
You must replace this habit with drinking water or snapping a rubber band on your wrist or perhaps expectorating into a nearby spittoon.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2018
“A land of expectorating cowpokes!” he cries when Jefferson identifies himself as the country’s former president.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2016
By the end of their sojourn they would be, ideally, clearing their noses without hankies, expectorating on to the pampas, and cleaning their teeth with very big knives, while cursing in idiomatic Spanish.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2014
I hear him in the basement, expectorating back to a vuvv language soundtrack.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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