expectorate
Example Sentences
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Monday night’s miracle expectorate didn’t have any second spitter.
From Washington Times • Nov. 19, 2019
Yet these are the 2019 Nats, and they look at external expectations — and, well, expectorate on them.
From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2019
In the horse & buggy days, a fellow could chew and expectorate safely.
From Time Magazine Archive
Third Game, For a pitcher to expectorate on a baseball to give it an eccentric curve, became illegal in 1920.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Though, Lloyd, why you can’t spell expectorate when it’s spelled just like it sounds, I cannot fathom.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
