gargle

His mash-up feels fresh, just as the bombastic score by Juri Seppä and Tuomas Wäinölä boldly borrows Ennio Morricone’s soaring horns and wah-wah-waaah squawks while adding its own gargle of Finnish throat singing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

I’ve had hiccups several times since then and have discovered that a quick gargle with water absolutely stops them.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

"I'm now going to go home and gargle some honey."

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2023

Some research has shown that using a turmeric gargle could reduce the side effects of radiotherapy in people with head and neck cancers, however.

From Salon ● May 23, 2023

We made our children gargle with warm saltwater and wrap mufflers around their necks.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Perplexity advised rest and fluids, while Claude also recommended zinc lozenges and saltwater gargles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026

“My preciousssssss,” Adam Heyes gargles in a high-pitched voice as he crouches on the linoleum checkerboard floor.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

Listen to how well the recording captures Mr. Hutcherson’s muted clangs and chiming overtones — along with the bleats, harrumphs and gargles of Mr. Dolphy’s bass clarinet, and the deep gravitas of Richard Davis’s bass.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2016

Rahm Emanuel gargles with soap every morning, but it doesn’t help.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2016

He gargles with camomile tea, coats the roof of his mouth with a tincture of myrrh and rubs Mentholatum over, his chest, nose, gums and tongue.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

I had just finished brushing my teeth and was about to gargle, so I went ahead and gargled.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

Then his gaze fell on my wife, and he gargled out the word “beautiful” before smiling boyishly.

From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2020

It found people who gargled and cleared their nose with a salt water solution reported fewer coughs, less congestion and seemed to recover quicker.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2020

It’s a fun, loose record stuffed with twisting and vibrating electronics that shifts tonally from pop-heavy melodies to erratic heavy clangs, as Smith’s voice wriggles around from gargled snarl to smoothed-out croon.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2020

I was crouched and still upon the floor; not moving except to heave my breaths, which gargled in the mess I had coughed into the mask.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

As I was gargling in the bathroom, she appeared at the doorway to snidely say, “Don’t drink it.”

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026

We do have one caution about gargling, however.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

That mentality, that medical fear, gives way to home remedies like chicken noodle soup, gargling with salt water, taking a nap and, yes, sipping on the syrupy, high fructose, food-colored ginger ale.

From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2023

Covid is mainly caught by inhaling tiny droplets in the air via the nose as well as the mouth, so gargling attacks only one point of entry.

From BBC ● May 19, 2022

Witching Hour threw her head back and cackled, a harsh, gargling laugh that echoed over Fry.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles