dry heave

Example Sentences

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“Conventions were a center of my life for a while, and now the idea of being in a vendor hall with that many people makes me want to dry heave,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times

“Seinfeld” cast members Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander were among several who noticed similarities between the president’s convulsive movements and Elaine’s infamous party dance, which Alexander’s George described on the show as a “full-body dry heave set to music.”

From Los Angeles Times

And in one telling moment, after she’s walked away from crushing a working-class good guy, she pauses on the sidewalk outside their meeting place and takes a moment to dry heave at what she’s just done.

From Salon

Fisheye lenses make the walls close in around her, and when the camera does move it’s sometimes attached to her body, careening around the psych ward like it’s looking for a place to dry heave.

From Slate

It corrals dozens of friends and like-minded peers in a full-body dry heave of body-movers and squelchy, middle-finger experiments.

From Los Angeles Times