catarrh
Example Sentences
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In another, he referred to Welsh signage in supermarkets as "incomprehensible" and described it as "a dead language that sounds uncannily like someone with bad catarrh clearing his throat".
From BBC
In earlier flu epidemics, the disease was described as the “Russian illness” in Germany and Italy, and “Chinese catarrh” in Russia.
From The Guardian
We should suppose in time of general catarrh, the whole empire of Japan would be covered with bits of paper blowing about.
From Scientific American
I felt the individual grains of rice, sliding against my palate, greasy tendrils of meat stringing across my throat like catarrh.
From The Guardian
"I had this awful streaming cold. The catarrh all transferred into my ear," he said.
From BBC
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