emetic

Example Sentences

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“Because the emetic toxin is preformed in food and is not inactivated by heat treatment, it is important to prevent B. cereus growth and its cereulide production during storage.”

From Fox News

Nothing here feels cute, quaint or kitsch, though whimsy can fall that way, into a slough of soggy sentimentality sometimes laced with an emetic of twee.

From New York Times

Though America has experienced many moral corrections, from abolitionism to the civil-rights movement, they have never come in the emetic moment Mr Trump’s critics pine for.

From Economist

When a member of Parliament in Britain compared this year’s World Cup to the Nazi Olympics in 1936, Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, agreed, lamenting the “emetic prospect of Putin glorying in this sporting event.”

From New York Times

Escape games are a natural emetic for all your bad qualities.

From New York Times