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barf

[bahrf] / bɑrf /




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I thought that eating and drinking too much of that stuff was supposed to make you barf.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2026

Honestly, I felt like I wanted to barf.

From New York Times Feb. 22, 2023

In many ways, she says, it’s “the crummiest job in the world,” replete with “blood, barf and bodily fluids,” and subservient to doctors.

From Seattle Times Dec. 2, 2022

“Some barf bags are no more than a baggie with a twist tie, while other sickbags could win international design competitions. Are they art? I think so.”

From Washington Post Oct. 1, 2022

He might wet the bed and barf at the drop of a hat, but his goodwill more than made up for it.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

He barfs on his first car ride, and it’s somehow endearing rather than repellent.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 23, 2022

Then a chubby fellow wearing sunglasses and a red sleeveless Q-Anon T-Shirt barfs brown liquid all over a picnic table.

From Washington Times Feb. 23, 2022

It’s hard to play when your quarterback constantly barfs up turnovers and your defense doesn’t gain many.

From The Guardian Nov. 26, 2018

These are not polite, quiet pukes, though, but rather booming, bellowing barfs.

From Newsweek Mar. 23, 2015

I chomp my sandwich and it barfs mustard on my shirt.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Thomas: I don’t think I’ve ever laughed during a movie as hard as when that puppet barfed for five minutes straight in Team America.

From The Guardian Sep. 11, 2020

I think the zeitgeist barfed all this stuff up at the same time.

From New York Times Aug. 18, 2020

I tumbled out and barfed beside the road.

From The New Yorker Dec. 16, 2019

A buffoon who barfed in the lap of the Japanese prime minister during a state dinner.

From Washington Times Dec. 2, 2018

Maya had always wanted a dog, but her mom said that they shed and drooled and barfed on the rug.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway

One reason I can confidently assert that she's not as dumb as she acts is she's undeniably swift when barfing up bad faith retorts, usually to innocent questions she's just pretending are "attacks."

From Salon Jun. 23, 2025

You can’t shower, and microgravity prevents digestive gases from rising out of the stew of other juices in your stomach and intestines, making it hard to belch without barfing.

From New York Times Nov. 12, 2023

After that game, Hawkins revealed the components of his final meal before the barfing began: steak, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes and calamari.

From Seattle Times Apr. 7, 2023

This isn’t world building; it’s more like world barfing.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2023

I felt so bad for you, especially since you’d been barfing all morning.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy




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