gargle
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His mash-up feels fresh, just as the bombastic score by Juri Seppä and Tuomas Wäinölä boldly borrows Ennio Morricone’s soaring horns and wah-wah-waaah squawks while adding its own gargle of Finnish throat singing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
People swallow or gargle the brews to combat routine bacterial infections.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024
I’ve had hiccups several times since then and have discovered that a quick gargle with water absolutely stops them.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
And his voice, a heavily processed sweet gargle, sounded completely modern, yet also like a deeply imprinted memory.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
Peach cleared his throat in a great gargle.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
Perplexity advised rest and fluids, while Claude also recommended zinc lozenges and saltwater gargles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
“My preciousssssss,” Adam Heyes gargles in a high-pitched voice as he crouches on the linoleum checkerboard floor.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
Listen to how well the recording captures Mr. Hutcherson’s muted clangs and chiming overtones — along with the bleats, harrumphs and gargles of Mr. Dolphy’s bass clarinet, and the deep gravitas of Richard Davis’s bass.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2016
Rahm Emanuel gargles with soap every morning, but it doesn’t help.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2016
“Self-care is important,” the monster responds in a voice that sounds like it brushes with charcoal and gargles with rocks each morning.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
I had just finished brushing my teeth and was about to gargle, so I went ahead and gargled.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
It found people who gargled and cleared their nose with a salt water solution reported fewer coughs, less congestion and seemed to recover quicker.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2020
So rancid did his night scenarios become that Seamie Ferris stumbled from the bed to the bathroom and gargled with Listerine.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018
It was something approaching fear, a strange gargled sound that could be heard every time Germany elegantly broke forward, threatening even more humiliation.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2014
I’ve already brushed my teeth six times, gargled mouthwash, and googled How do you know if you have old-man breath.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
As I was gargling in the bathroom, she appeared at the doorway to snidely say, “Don’t drink it.”
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026
If you've been spitting, rinsing and gargling after every brush, you might want to rethink that last step.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2025
First, internet healers falsely suggested that gargling salt water and vinegar could prevent a coronavirus infection.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2024
If you are gargling at the same time that you are hiccupping, you might aspirate water.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
Next, he gave Mrs. Moss instructions about gargling with warm salt water.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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